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Manchester Settlement Spirit Story - Invaluable Support

22 Sep 2016 - 09:52 by Nigel Rose

Angie has been working as a support housing manager at Manchester Settlement for the last 13 years. She and her team support people living in two projects, one for care leavers and looked after children and the other for single homeless people with support needs.

 

On Wednesday 21st September, she was doing an end of tenancy for a young Polish woman who she has been supporting for the last year. This young woman came to the project because she was struggling at college. She was being treated like a slave at her home, having to do all the cooking and cleaning and being ordered around by the family she was living with. During her stay, at times, she has been depressed and very low in confidence. However, with the support of Angie and her team, she is now going to university.

Thank you for supporting me through the hardest times, the support has been invaluable. You have made an enormous contribution to my life and success. You do an amazing job transforming the lives of young people like me.”

In Angie’s view the most important things that she and her team do are to listen, be there as someone to talk to and to push the young people to be everything they can be. Many of the people they help keep in touch for years after they leave.
 

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