For most young people staying at home with parents or guardians is the safest and most appropriate housing option. However for a small number of young people this isn’t an option.

On this website we have tried to offer advice to young people and explain all of the housing options available to you.

Who are we?

THEPP stands for Tamworth Homelessness Education Prevention Programme, (bit of a mouthful eh?) and its fundamental goal is to help prevent young people in Tamworth from becoming homeless.  We do this in a number of ways including educating and supporting young people in schools across Tamworth. As part of the programme we deliver sessions on homelessness including how it happens, what its like, and how it can be prevented.

We are also part of the Turnaround Team, which means we can offer quick support to young people and their families when they need it.

We also meet with young people and their parents, when there is a risk that a young person might become homeless. They can be referred through schools, connexions or their parents. We try and meet where the young person feels comfortable, home, school, youth club etc, and then discuss their options, in order for them to move forward. 

The other branch of THEPP is the peer education programme, where young people who have experienced homelessness come in to the schools to share their stories with other young people. This will hopefully help prevent others making the same mistake they did.