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The Lodge Programme Details
Our experience has shown that there are three building blocks to a healthy lifestyle: personal responsibility, vulnerability and accountability and our teaching reflects this.
Our main aim is to provide teaching groups addressing life skills including relapse prevention, budgeting, healthy eating & nutrition and relationship building encouraging vulnerability. These are combined with work experience placements with local business, which are attended on several days a week, in order to gain further work experience and help prepare residents for permanent work once they complete the programme.
The Lodge Programme (Resettlement) has a timetable which provides the flexibility for community work experience with local businesses where residents have the opportunity to develop responsibility and self-control. On other days, they participate in group teaching sessions and key working. During the evenings and at weekends, men are encouraged to develop independence by attending church- or community-based groups and developing hobbies.
The Lodge is a safe environment where the men are encouraged to put newly found skills into practice prior to living in the community. Residents learn to live more independently and take responsibility for their own cooking, personal hygiene, house cleaning, washing and finances. As low skills and lack of qualifications can make job hunting difficult for some residents, we provide help with writing CV’s, IT, enhancing job-search skills and other work-focused training courses where appropriate.
Residents on The Lodge Programme are expected to attend the weekly Yeldall Manor community meeting which involves prayer and worship. Each resident is assigned a Key Worker. Together they will agree an Individual Support Plan (ISP) addressing areas such as training, debts, personal health. This ISP is reviewed during the programme and amended according to progress made. They will meet weekly to discuss progress and issues arising from the challenges of independent living.
As part of their continuing development, residents of The Lodge Programme are expected to work alongside duty staff within Yeldall Manor one evening per week, and one weekend per month. This helps develop personal responsibility and encourages those on the Manor programme.
Having completed The Lodge Programme, rather than return to old haunts, many residents stay in the local area where they can benefit from our Aftercare Service.
For men who successfully complete the programme, we offer Aftercare to support them as we have found that the first year after leaving is critical to ongoing success. Key working will continue during this time taking into account the increased vulnerability of ex-residents, and which helps the readjustment to community life. To avoid isolation, group activities are arranged.
