About Hestia Housing & Support
Hestia has been housing, supporting and caring for vulnerable people in London since 1970. We currently work across 17 boroughs, supporting a wide range of adults and children, including: -
- Adults with severe and enduring mental health conditions
- Women and children survivors of domestic violence
- Adults and children living with HIV and Aids
- Young men at risk of offending
- Drug and alcohol misuse
- Long term physical health conditions
Our Vision:
Empowering People, Changing Lives
Our Mission:
To deliver high quality and empowering housing, support, protection, care and involvement services in partnership with service users and local communities
Our Values:
Supportive; Caring; Client- focussed; Dedicated and Principled
We support over 1,600 people each year through:-
- Housing, including hostels, domestic violence refuges, care homes and semi-independent supported housing
- Children and Family Support projects, supporting mothers and children to rebuild their lives following domestic violence
- Community Support helping people to settle into, or to continue, living independently in their own homes
- Outreach helping people in the community with advice, support and advocacy around domestic violence and mental health
- Local Involvement Networks (LINks) enabling people in the boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea, Ealing, Brent and Hammersmith & Fulham to shape the health and care services in their neighbourhoods
- Service User involvement through the independently constituted Better Lives Forum we are involving our service users in shaping our services at practically every level from service inspections to governance
- Supported volunteering for our services users to help them build confidence, skills and wider social networks, all of which will enable them to live more independently in the long term
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Our Approach
At Hestia, we believe in the inherent talents of the people who use our services. Their individual circumstances may prevent them from achieving their true potential. Their self-confidence and skills may have been undermined by a long-term health condition, post-traumatic stress, or a stay in hospital or in prison. However, with the right support, we believe that everyone is capable of making positive changes and of living a fulfilling life.
We work within the framework of the Government's "Every Child Matters" and Supporting People strategies, and we aim to ensure that every adult and child in our services has the support they need to: -
- Stay safe
- Be healthy
- Enjoy and achieve
- Attain economic wellbeing
- Make a positive contribution
Our role is to help people to decide how they might realise these goals in their own lives, and to support them in planning how they will achieve each step along the way. This can sometimes be a difficult journey for the people we support, but it is ultimately a rewarding one. |
