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Address: Focus Point, 116, Kingston Crescent, Portsmouth, PO2 8AL
Telephone: 023 9279 3000
Website: www.lifeyouwant.org.uk/
 
Referral Method
For services in Portsmouth City the referral routes into the Mental Health & Homelessness Services are:

• Joint agency referral panel
• Portsmouth Housing Options
• Dual Diagnosis Operations Group

About Southern Focus Trust
Southern Focus Trust is an independent local charity and company limited by guarantee working in the Hampshire and West Sussex region. During each year, we support and advise over 10,000 people. The Trust has approximately 400 supported housing bed spaces spread over 70 properties offering all kinds of accommodation for vulnerable people and those most in need. The Trust employs over 400 staff, works closely with other agencies and enjoys the support of many volunteers.
 
History
In 1985 Southern Focus Trust, known then as Portsmouth Housing Trust, was founded by Portsmouth Housing Association (PHA) to provide services to people who were not its tenants.
In 1991 the Trust was given the operation of the Care and Repair service from another PHA subsidiary company, and the All Saints Direct Access Hostel was built by PHA.
In 1993 all care and support services provided by PHA were transferred to Portsmouth Housing Trust and the organisation was re-launched as a major provider in Portsmouth.
In 1997 Havant Housing Association left the PHA Group and a number of HHA services for Young People were transferred to the management of the Trust.
Fareham Housing Association decided to de-merge from the PHA Group too, and services for Young People were transferred to Southern Focus Trust, including East Street and Western Road in Fareham and Blake's in Gosport.
In 2004 the Trust re-branded itself developing a new strap-line and logo and renaming and refurbishing its headquarters as 'Focus Point'.
 
What services does Southern Focus Trust have?
There are 4 main departments within Southern Focus Trust - Community Support Services, Mental Health & Homelessness Services, Learning Disability Services and Women & Young People Services.
 
Within the Mental Health & Homelessness department there are a variety of services;

• Registered Care Homes
• Supported Living Services
• Floating Support Services
• Resettlement Services
• Meadows Accommodation Worker
• Dual Diagnosis Service
• Portsmouth SAIL
• Basingstoke SaiL & Direct Access Hostel
• Fareport Fund A Home

During each year, the Trust supports and advises over 10,000 people. It has has approximately 400 supported housing bed spaces spread over 70 properties offering all kinds of accommodation for people in need of either/or housing related support and social care.
 
Our Aims
Southern Focus Trust exists to provide care support and advice to vulnerable people, to promote their independence and to help them build a better quality of life.
 
Commitment
Southern Focus Trust is committed to the provision of high quality support and advice services which are sensitive to individuals' needs and circumstances. We do this through:

• focusing on excellence
• knowing our communities well
• ensuring effective partnerships
• delivering flexible services
• creating alternative solutions
• checking on how we're doing
• campaigning for a better tomorrow

And this is underpinned by our values

• We value relationships based on trust, empathy, honesty and respect.
• We actively promote the freedom and power to make informed choices for a better quality of life and self-fulfilment.
• We believe that everyone should be treated with dignity and that an individual's unique strengths, abilities, needs and contribution should be valued and nurtured. No one should be denied this right as a result of discrimination

Southern Focus Trust exists to provide care support and advice to vulnerable people, to promote their independence and to help them build a better quality of life.