Supported Living offers the people we support the opportunity to live where and how they choose β in a home of their own or with people they choose to live with. We work with housing providers to make this possible.
This means that the people we support can do things in their local community β like going to the leisure centre, using the bus, shopping and going to church β and do as much as they can for themselves, like cooking, shopping, budgeting and personal care. Then I got moved away into hospitals, quite a lot of hospitals, to get help. I was put in residential homes too, but all the time I was unhappy. I had to eat in the kitchen and I could never choose what I wanted. It was just handed to me.
It was just not nice and I will tell you that I got a bit cross in places and they sometimes moved me.
I have my dog, Lucky, and we go for walks and play. I have a rabbit, a guinea pig and a vegetable garden. I can go shopping and cook my own meals and I keep my house clean and tidy.
I make decisions for myself. When I go out with Lucky, my neighbours come out and say hello. I like to see people not in hospital. I like to see them like myself, somewhere where they have a nice house where they can do their own stuff or talk to their friends and see their family more because hospitals make families a bit upset.
