Fusion Fair Chance

A multi-disciplinary support and guidance programme reducing youth homelessness in West Yorkshire.

  • Department for Communities & Local Government

  • Cabinet Office

  • Fusion Housing

  • Numbers for Good

  • Location

    West Yorkshire

  • Launch

    Dec 2014

  • Area

    Education, Employment & Housing

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Cabinet Office

  • Department for Communities & Local Government

Delivery Partners

  • Fusion Housing

  • Numbers for Good

Team

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Cabinet Office

  • Department for Communities & Local Government

Delivery Partners

  • Fusion Housing

  • Numbers for Good

  • Andrew Levitt

    Co-Founder and Executive Director of Operations, Innovation and Learning

    Andrew is Co-Founder of Bridges Outcomes Partnerships and Executive Director of Operations, Innovation and Learning. He is a Director of Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership, GM Homes Partnership, Homelessness Support, the Single Homeless Prevention Service and is a Trustee of West London Zone.

    Prior to Bridges, Andrew was Managing Director of a social enterprise “Baobab” in Madagascar, and a non-Executive board member of two other financial inclusion social enterprises, in Senegal and China.

Overview

Fusion Fair Chance’s wrap-around support, guidance and training has been designed to help young people avoid homelessness and sustain positive life outcomes.

The programme supported young people in West Yorkshire who were homeless and not in employment, education or training (NEET) into stable accommodation, education and employment. This is a group of individuals who regularly fall through the net of public service provision and who can, if not supported effectively, go on to have significantly worse life outcomes and cost the state a significant amount in lifetime costs.

Fusion Housing is a leading housing support and homelessness charity based in Kirklees, West Yorkshire. The organisation delivered this programme – via a collaboration between housing providers, employment agencies and councils in the area.

By building multidisciplinary teams offering a diverse set of support approaches, Fusion Housing has been able to respond to the complex and diverse needs of the young people it is supporting. The three-year-long service provided wrap-around support, guidance and training to help the young people enter stable accommodation, education and employment, creating long-term positive impacts.

Outcomes

Almost 350 young people were supported on the programme, with 84% moving into accommodation among other positive outcomes.

  • 349

    Starts to the programme

  • 172

    Entered into education/training course

  • 293

    Secured accommodation

  • £1.5m

    Outcomes achieved

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