"When I first came to Umuada I believed I couldn’t have come through this on my own. I would have been suffering from depression if my support worker had not helped me with loads of emotional support."

Meeting the needs of women and children fleeing domestic violence is a challenge Housing With Care and Support has been rising to for over 20 years. During which time we have developed a level of expertise to ensure that service users are offered a supportive and safe environment at a time when they are at their most vulnerable. Safety and security is the primary focus of our projects which are all commuinity based and when service users are able to move on to more permenant accomodation, we provide an outreach support service to help them resettle successfully in their new community.

The welfare of children is also central to our service and by establishing partnerships with educational serviecs we work to ensure any disruption caused by a temporary or permenant move is kept to a minimum.