Floating Support (Ballymoney) - Triangle Housing

The Floating Support Service is designed to help people secure and maintain their tenancies. The service is widely recognised as being an example of best practice and has specialist innovations for e.g. Key project – young vulnerable homeless and care leavers. Floating Support is provided in your own home by a support worker and can provide help and advice in all sorts of areas, such as: Budgeting and financial management Advice on housing rights and responsibilities Claiming welfare benefits, paying bills and debts Setting up home and resettlement support Understanding tenancy agreements Life skills and being independent at home Staying safe at home How to access daytime activities, training, education and employment within a community Finding a doctor and accessing other necessary services in the community Dealing with other agencies Neighbour issues Triangle work with people aged 16-65 years and who are in accommodation, or setting up home. They can offer advice and support to enable a person to move to more appropriate accommodation and provide practical support, advice and assistance that might affect their tenancy. Triangle also have expertise of supporting clients with a learning disabilityMethod of Referral: any statutory/voluntary organisation, self referrals can be made if you have been in receipt of the service within the previous 12 months

Service details

• Contact person: Lucy Campfield
• Available age groups: 16-65 years
• FamilySupportNI categories: Housing
• Areas covered: Antrim | Ballymena | Ballymoney | Belfast | Carrickfergus | Coleraine | Cookstown | Larne | Magherafelt | Moyle | Newtownabbey
• Referral methods: GP | Health Visitor | Hospital | School | Self | Social Worker

Source: FamilySupportNI listing