Support and Advice
YMCA Northamptonshire offers more than just a physical home. Our holistic approach ensures that our residents can access a wide range of support to meet their personal needs. Staff guide residents through our pathway of support, ensuring that by the time they move on, our young people have the tools and resources that they need to thrive.
Core to the support we provide is a commitment to an asset-based approach. In a nutshell it means that we focus on the skills and attributes of a person, not the challenges that have brought them to us. Our support is ‘person-centred’ which means taking account of each individual’s needs and aspirations.
It is important that we support young people in areas where they are not feeling their best so Keyworkers use our emotional needs framework to guide conversations and set goals.
When residents leave YMCA Northamptonshire we hope they feel happy, healthy and optimistic about the future.
‘The YM has done a lot of things for me, it has helped me work on myself, improve myself. I am grateful for what I have now, I’ve never had my own room, my own space, I feel very lucky. I had bad days at the start but it’s good times in here now.’