About FCSS
Families & Community Support Service (FCSS) exists to link individuals, families, and the community to provide support for individuals and families to access health, social care, housing options, employment, further education, vocational/ training, welfare benefits, support for disabled people; particularly, those with long term conditions, such as mental health problems and learning disabilities.
Our Mission:
We are a strong community with a shared vision of promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion by providing advocacy, campaign for policy change, empowerment, and support victims who are at risk or likely to be at risk suffering discrimination.
We work closely with a range of partners to achieve our mission, ensuring everyone has access to life’s essentials.
We advocate and provide practical advice and emotional support whenever people need them most.
We supportur clients to prevent them from becoming homeless and sustain their existing tenancies.
We build relationships with the community to increase awareness and understanding of homelessness and its impact and empathize with individuals who experience it.
Our Values
Our values are our core principles, the qualities, and beliefs that drive all of our work and service we offer to the community and continue to put people at the heart of everything we do.
Our Vision
Not to stop until we achieve a society where all people enjoy equal opportunity, equal rights, justice, and fairness.
What We Do
Our services
Families & Community Support Service (FCSS) offer a range of housing options for adult Care leavers both temporary and permanent and offer additional low to medium support need to individuals. We work in partnership with local authorities, the Greater London Authority, social services, private property owners/ landlords, Estate Agents, and other charity organisations. Residents are mostly referred by the Local Authorities (LA), Social Services and other charity organisations following an assessment. Our supported accommodation is fully furnished, aims to support our residents in maintaining their tenancies at the schemes, to enable independence in the future and to break the cycle of homelessness. We offer a variety of individual support at our schemes including:
- Personal development work
- Confidence building and relationship support
- Benefits advise, support with managing finances and other support with financial entitlements
- Debt reduction and income maximisation
- Advice on finding employment, education, training and vocational
- Life skills and support networks.
Our “Life skills” plans include practical skills such as healthy eating, cooking, cleaning, shopping, budgeting, relationship skills and lifestyle skills (e.g. physical exercise, contraception, alcohol, and drugs free lifestyle) and any aspect that are key to successful transitions to independent living.
Students Placement
Families & Community Support Service also work in partnership with universities by offering work-related placements experience to Social Work and Health and Social Care students. This provides students with first-hand practical experience of their programme. Get Placement
