Homelessness Signposting

BCP Council

Responsible for providing the following services:

• Help if you are being evicted or served notice
• Help if you’re homeless or about to become homeless
• Homelessness: duty to refer
• Housing First
• How we’re helping with homelessness
• Let us know about someone sleeping rough
• No Recourse to Public Funds
• Severe Weather Emergency Protocol

DORSET HEALTHCARE

We provide intensive, community-based support for people who are homeless and struggling with a physical illness or have a mental health condition.

ST MUNGO’S

ST MUNGO’S team provides daily support to people sleeping rough in the three coastal towns. We also run two accommodation based mental health services as well as leading the area’s Housing First programme.

Streetlink

If you need help with getting support for yourself or to find support if someone you know is sleeping rough. They can organise for alerts to be sent to outreach teams who are out at night to connect people with local support services.

Crisis

One of Crisis friendly experts will spend time with you to work out what you need. If being supported by Crisis is the best option for you, we could help you with:

• finding, securing and keeping a home
• making sure you have the support you are entitled to from the local authority
• claiming the right level of benefits
• vocational training and technical qualifications
• wellbeing and building confidence, including access to support from specialist clinical psychologists.

The type of support you receive will be based on your needs. One of Crisis main priorities will be helping you to find a suitable home and preventing.

Homeless Link

Homeless Link social enterprise supports the homelessness sector through specialised software, engaging training, expert consultancy, and impactful events that also helps to fund wider work to end homelessness for good.

BCHA

A charity with volunteers to help support individuals by finding housing and accommodation across the South of England.A major provider of a diverse range of housing, support and learning services for socially excluded people.

Shelter

Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and it’s where we thrive. We exist to defend the right to a safe home.  The ways we can help are below:

• Locally
• Over the phone
• Online
• Legal advice

YMCA

We provide short-term supported housing for men and women from 18 to 65 years. Our focus is on equipping clients with the skills they require to achieve or return to independent living.

Michael House

To provide emergency and long-term accommodation to homeless people as well as provide day related services. We are a pet-friendly dry house (drug and alcohol-free environment) offering supported accommodation to all genders.

FaithWorks

A Dorset-based Christian charity that works alongside people through times of crisis building hope and resilience to deal with times ahead. Faithworks runs practical projects around food, finance, homelessness and lone parenting in our local towns.

WITH YOU

With you provide free, confidential support to people facing challenges with drugs, alcohol or mental health. With over 80 services across England and Scotland. With you help more than 100,000 people a year.

Samaritans

Samaritans are here to listen, they won’t judge, there’s no pressure, and they will help you work through what’s on your mind. Samaritans will never tell you what to do.

TALK TO FRANK

A comprehensive database containing information on various drugs and their associated risks.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) helps alcoholics to recover. A Fellowship, alcoholics help each other and reach out to others struggling with alcoholism. Founded in 1935, our approach works. Today, two million members around the world now live a new way of life.

Turn2Us

Turn2us is a national charity offering information and practical help to people facing financial insecurity.

Entitled To

Entitled To helps everyone to access the benefits they’re entitled to

NHS Low income Scheme

You could get help to pay for:

• NHS prescriptions
• NHS dental treatment
• sight tests, glasses and contact lenses
• travel to receive NHS treatment
• NHS wigs and fabric supports