Our Approach
Consistency
Young people often leave local authority care with little to no positive support network of friends or family. The consistency of relationship we build at Rusa Care is key to developing positive relationships with these vulnerable young people which helps to deliver better life outcomes for them.
What makes a significant difference to young people is having adults that ‘stick’ with them as we do with our own children.
At Rusa Care we take a person-centred rather than a building-centred approach to supporting young people with a high degree of support needs.
This means young people can move into Rusa Supported Accommodation when they leave local authority care and remain in the same support network, with the same carers until they are fully independent aged 21+.
Skills
Our service and practice focuses on building positive relationships and empowering young people to develop robust independent living skills.
Our work has an expectation that all young people in our care will be in education, seeking employment or be in employment.
We have tried and tested approaches with a firm focus on encouraging young people to eventually live independently of the welfare state.
We focus on all aspects of emotional, practical and social living skills including building resilience, learning to live with trauma, good financial management, safe living, contributing to the community and we have good longstanding partnerships with local colleges and employers.
