115 - Empowering People with Learning Disabilities to Plan Where They Live with Louise Keevil
In this episode Louise Keevil explains the issues facing young people transitioning from residential settings and how her experience with this led her to co-found a charity which is working to give young people a voice in choosing where they live. This episode explores the issues around choice in housing and shares a great tool that you can use with the people you support.
Louise Keevil has many years of experience working with people with learning disabilities in a wide range of contexts, including as principal of a residential specialist college as well as managing projects nationally and internationally.
Louise has a very strong belief in the basic concept that everybody should have the opportunity to be the best they can be, whatever that looks like, and to follow their dreams.
Where I Want To Live has been created by families and experts who have direct experience of supporting and guiding young adults to make choices about where and how they live. We promote the vision of a country where adults with learning disabilities have real choice about where and how they live.
Everyone seems to agree that adults with learning disabilities should have choice and control over their lives and legislation supports this. However, despite everyone’s best efforts this is often not the case.
Our first steps have been to co-produce an engaging digital toolkit that empowers people with learning disabilities to discuss share and plan where and how they live. The first stage of the toolkit is intended as a conversation starter and is available now on our website www.whereiwanttolive.co.uk
The co production project that has enabled the creation of this toolkit took place in Conwy and Pembrokeshire and was funded by Improvement Cymru.
Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need. Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.
Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference.
To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network
Lisa has written a free guide for you:
If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors
If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers
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