Sean Ashley, 35, a support housing officer at the YMCA and former resident, took part in last year's workshops, and says they set him up well for future employment.
She lives in a supported housing facility and receives $331 a month and food stamps.
O'Driscoll is a former resident of a supported housing scheme for mental health service users in Newcastle.
It should negotiate a deal in which the building will continue to be leased to a supported housing provider.
It's just a small room at Capitol Hall – a supporting housing residence for men and women at risk of homelessness.
As a supported housing worker, you are a personal assistant, filling in their benefit forms, making sure they pay their rent, taking on all the responsibility.
She is on a supported housing waiting list compiled by the Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled, an advocacy group, and mostly looks forward to eating what she wants to eat.
Byrne: As a supported housing organisation with schemes dispersed all over the country, we struggle sometimes to get the levels of client involvement we aspire to.
Dayle Clark, 19, was in a supported housing mother and baby unit and wanted her own place, but debts and rent arrears prevented her from moving on.
A graduate recruit says... Laura, 31, is a supported housing officer at the City Centre Project, Manchester I did a postgraduate diploma in youth and community work at Manchester Metropolitan University, which I finished in 2004.
A supported housing scheme for homeless people, also owned by London Housing Trust, was said to be in disarray, with damp and mildew, and staff failing to report missing people for weeks at a time.
