When you are given limited options - some choices in life are easy to make. But what happens when you leave care? Are the options limited? Who makes the choices? Who faces the consequences of choice?

 

	Clothing or rags? Education or can’t be bothered? Toiletries or smell? Duvet or an old coat? Getting up or staying in bed? Going to bed or staying up? Breakfast or a cigarette? A future or drugs? Fitness or 20-a-day? Make decisions or follow the crowd? This or that?		Mealtime or hunger? Work or no money? Training or no skills? Flat or a squat? Job centre or still stay in bed? Leisure or lethargy? Friends or Real friends? Money in pocket or alcohol? Opportunities or offending? Freedom or 23 hour lock up? That or this?

Blackpool Homes ROAD Programme

Realities, Opportunities, Actions, Decisions

An Agenda for Empowering and Enabling Care Leavers (16-18) into Society 

Blackpool Homes will work with those young people who have experienced the care system, who are taking their first, real steps, into the world of self management and who need further guidance and support into the ‘Real Deal’ – life after the ‘system’.

Delivered within a real living environment and using community resources, the key aims of the programme will be to enhance the content of the Pathway Plan through nurture, instruction and training via a life skills curriculum containing activities that encourages and motivates young men and women into taking action. Action that is planned, safe and secure - Action that has considered the consequences. Action that recognises the acceptance that community solidarity is achieved through interdependence.  

Blackpool Homes ROAD programme is delivered by qualified, experienced staff who will work to see the outcomes of the Every Child Matters agenda realised.