Finding a Place to Live – help with your plans.doc

Finding a Place to Live – Help with your plans  The Guide was?written by Jenny Pannell and Maurice Harker For the Valuing People Support Team. This Guide is also available in a CD edition. Additional material from Nigel King and the Housing Options Advisory Service Housing Options provided some of the photos and material for the Further Information sections. Richard Woolrych provided the Speaking With Pictures illustrations?in Section 5. Further photos were provided by Community Lives, Golden Lane Housing, Southdown H A and Southern Focus Trust. Editing and CD edition by Daniel Herbert – Fleki-Web Typing and proofreading by Diane Berry and Jessica King May 2008  CONTENTS Section 1 Thinking About A Place To Live 4 Section 2 What’s Important 13 Section 3 What sort of home? 27 Section 4 Finding a Place to Live 43 Section 5 INFORMATION AND HELP 64 Section 6 Care and support 70 Section 7 Problem solving 77 Section 8 Summary and action plan 94 Section 9 Moving in 98 Annex 108 1 National contacts and links 108 2 Publications 115 3 Other Resources 116  Section 1 Thinking About A Place To Live 1.1 Why move? There are lots of possible reasons to move: Sometimes it’s because you choose to move Sometimes things happen and you have to move Sometimes it’s to do with the building or the area Sometimes it’s to do with relationships There can be other reasons too. Which ones could apply to you, your relative, or the person you support? Are there other reasons to move? Are you leaving residential school or college? Is your family moving away? Do you want to be on your own? Do you want to live with a friend? Do you want to move nearer to work? The next page has a checklist you can use.   You can add more here about why Are you leaving residential school or college? Is your family moving away, or abroad? Do you want more independence? Are you sharing, but want to be on your own? Are you on your own, but want to be with other people