Lift is extremely pleased to announce the launch of its East European Peer Navigator Project. The project will run throughout 2014 and is being supported by the Homeless Transition Fund.
The East European Peer Navigator Project is a partnership between Lift and the East European Advice Centre and has been formed to help East European nationals who are at risk of becoming rough sleepers, to prevent homelessness, or where they are already homeless, to help them build a life away from the streets. The project will work closely with Thames Reach, The Upper Room,
The Passage and West London Churches Homeless Concern.
Lift will create a team of 40 volunteer Peer Navigators who, between them, speak all of the major East European languages. The Peer Navigators will work with staff from front line homelessness agencies to help connect their East European clients into services which already exist in the community, but which they are currently not using for reasons of lack of knowledge, language or cultural barriers.
The project is not a stand-alone service; it depends for its success on creating partnerships between the project, front line homelessness agencies, and services based in the East European community as well as more mainstream services. We aim to build a robust network of links and partnerships which will continue beyond the period for which the project is funded.
For further information please contact:
Sam Curtis
Project Coordinator
Tel: 020 8965 2561
Email: [email protected]
www.liftpeople.org.uk
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