OUR STRATEGY
Through 2022 – 2025 New Horizon Youth Centre will focus on:
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1. Delivering high quality, trauma-informed services for any young person that needs our support
Refocusing our services around four key outcomes areas (Housing, Safety,
Life-skills, and Health) to help us specialise further and grow our impact.Redefining the welcomes into our services so that we can build trust and
ensure young people get the support they want and move on.Creating a brand-new health offer and optimising the scale of our housing offer to address these continued areas of significant need.
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2. Working with and through others to optimise our offer and maximise our impact
Continuing to invest in the London Youth Gateway youth homelessness partnership, scaling its reach and finding more ways to collaborate.
Revitalising our centre as a hub that provides both drop-in and specialist services via our team and a network of committed partners that share our values.
More deliberately sharing best practice with partners and statutory agencies so that more professionals are equipped with the skills and knowledge to help.
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3. Saying what others won’t say and do what other won’t do to ensure that no single young person misses out, even the young people we will never meet
Prioritising services where needs exist without solutions, working with others
to innovate and bring these issues to public attention.Redoubling our policy work and building our evidence to put ‘grit in the system’ and ensure that the issues affecting young people are understood and acted upon.
Working with young people to reframe the narrative around youth homelessness, ensuring that they have the right platform to campaign for change.
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4. Sustaining a well-run organisation that invests in staff and celebrates the diversity that makes us a success of its staff
Making good on our commitment to be anti-racist, embedding diversity across our work and practice.
Renewing our staff care and investing in our technology and facilities so that the team have the practical and emotional support they need to thrive.
Setting ambitious goals for our fundraising so that we have the resources and financial security to be ruthless in the pursuit of our mission.