CAYSH is searching for hosts across Lambeth

CAYSH is a leading homeless youth charity on the lookout for big-hearted residents who would be willing to give a spare room to a vulnerable young person.

CAYSH works with young people aged 16-24 years old, leaving care and unaccompanied minors.

Offering services such as supported accommodation and supported lodging service.

CAYSH is offering the chance to make a positive contribution to your community by housing a young person.

You can earn £150 a week for the room and an extra £100 weekly for supporting the young person.

We provide training for hosts and support-workers for the young people.

This week we visited a host; Christiana Safia, 49, who worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming one of our Lodger hosts and has volunteered to support young people dealing with mental health.

Christiana said: “Providing a stable home for a vulnerable young people is so fulfilling”

“When lockdown started the atmosphere was very scary and quite tense, as a family we would listen to the Government announce the lockdown and the young people were really happy that there was no college or school, then the reality of what that meant slowly started to sink in, the lockdown had a huge negative impact on young people’s mental health.

“On the positive side, we were spending a lot of time together cooking, doing housework and home schooling.

It tightened the family unit.

There are a large number of children coming in to the system from diverse backgrounds and we need more hosts to meet the need.”

 

CAYSH will be running an online information session on Thursday 28th April 2022 – 7:30pm.

You can register for event on Eventbrite, or enquire about Lodgings call 020 8683 0227 or email:  lodgings@caysh.org

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