key aims

South Yorkshire Housing Association, in partnership with Crisis, are delivering the programme's Coproduction and Peer Support service. 

This service is increasing the influence of people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage on the design and delivery of services and the city’s overall strategy and approach to multiple disadvantage. 

They are working to increase the number of ways in which people currently experiencing multiple disadvantage can benefit from support from empathetic and credible role models.

Our Core Team has a caseload of 81 adults experiencing multiple disadvantage and is providing them with an enhanced offer of support. 

Staff in the core team work citywide with caseloads of up to 7 in order to allow for intensive support over the life of the programme.

People receiving support from the programme also have access to additional psychiatric, psychological and primary care support, alongside personalisation budgets to meet their goals. 

We recognise the importance of feeling valued, of social connections and of engaging in meaningful activities every day.

We believe that engaging in activities that are fulfilling and meaningful to the person is critical in enabling individuals to make long term, sustainable change.  

We have partnered with the Sheffield Drug and Alcohol Commissioning Team to co-commission the 'Positive Activities for Adults in Recovery Fund' which is being administered and coproduced by South Yorkshire Housing Association

We aim to increase the knowledge, skills, and confidence of a wide range of services to deal well with multiple disadvantage.

Via Project 6 we are developing and offering bespoke training and awareness-raising activities, centred on knowledge of multiple disadvantage and implementing trauma-informed and person-centred approaches. 

We will use learning from all areas of the programme at a system level to develop consensus and sustainable, collective solutions. 

We will be sharing learning and emerging best practice from the programme at a local, regional and national level.

We recognise that access to specialist support, often around mental health, is a huge barrier for people facing multiple disadvantage in Sheffield.

That's why we have increased the capacity of Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Trust's Homeless Assessment and Support Team which provides access to healthcare services. 

We have partnered with Paradigm Psychology to provide psychological support to our caseload and staff. 

We are working with Cranstoun to deliver a specialist support service for perpetrators of domestic violence. 

We are building capacity within Housing Solutions at Sheffield City Council, to help those we support navigate the housing system.

We want to gain a better understanding of people experiencing multiple disadvantage in Sheffield, so we can improve our ability to support individuals.

We are using a mixture of data-led and operational intelligence approaches to inform how we work, from identifying our caseload to helping inform service design and delivery. 

We work using active consent: we do not rely on one-off consent given when someone starts working with us, but instead we repeatedly seek their consent to share specific information with specific partners as and when needed. 

We are developing a client portal so those we support have direct access to their records at any time.