On Route Foyer
Helping young people find their feet and flourish.
Our On Route Foyer is one part of our how we support young people in Dudley.
The foyer provides a safe, nurturing place for young people experiencing homelessness to live, learn and flourish.
It’s not just a roof, each young person has a mentor and access to support from the wider network of the Dudley Young Person’s Alliance.
Contact us...
01384 455464The Foyer
How Many Homes do You Have?
There are 36 accommodation places providing the following options:
- Self- contained flats (3 units on Peel St)
- Self- contained flats (25 units at 6 Dixons Green Rd)
- Studio flats (3 units at Constitution Hill)
- 4 Studio Flats and 1 Self contained flat (Old Park Rd)
How do I apply to live at the Foyer?
If you’re aged 18 to 25 (in sometimes cases 16 or 17) you can contact us directly. You can also visit the Council Plus, Homeless Persons section, 259 Castle St Dudley and request a referral to the Foyer. If you have a social worker, probation officer, college tutor or other agency worker they can also support you with a referral.
How much does it cost?
The weekly cost varies for each project on the Foyer, some include heating and lighting within the rent.
The rent allowance awarded to you will depend on your circumstances, which will be looked at by a Housing Benefit Officer. For current rent charges please telephone 01384 455464, our staff will be happy to let you know.
What we offer - the practical
- Helping you to plan for your future.
- Focusing on your strengths (we call it Advantaged Thinking)
- Specialist mentor to help with work and skills
- Specialist mentor to support your well-being and activities (practical and fun)
- Link with local colleges & training providers
- Money & budgeting
- Cooking & nutrition sessions
- Help to find your next home
What we offer - the social
- Sexual health drop-in
- Fitness sessions to suit you
- Football team
- Ways to relax: yoga, relaxation, art therapy.
- Participation. There are lots of opportunities to get involved and shape what happens in your home and also in the wider community.
Youth Power
The team at the Foyer is committed to collaborating closely with and giving power and influence to young people.
We do this partly through a Foyer Federation programme called Youth Power and partly because it’s the right thing to do. This means we have young people on the steering group for the Dudley Young Person’s Alliance, and we have set up a CHADD wide residents group because our young people wanted to influence our board members.
Recently foyer residents have also taken control of their programme of activities, called RISE and through CHADD Your Voice have started to shape and re- design communal areas in the Foyer.
For more read Tori-Jade Davies’s experience of the Youth Power approach.
Dudley Young Person’s Alliance
CHADD is the lead partner for a bold new alliance of organisations in Dudley. We work together to support young people coming from care or at risk of homelessness. It’s a collaboration between the young people and five local organisations.
As a group we work alongside Dudley Council to support young people in many different ways. The Alliance helps with some of the absolute basics, like a home when someone is facing homelessness or support to develop life skills such as cooking and money and time management.
But more than that, the Alliance can help with mentoring, mental health support, confidence-building and helping young people find their feet, their place in the world and their sense of direction.
