Community Partner Referral to Sussex Nightstop

Welcome to Sussex Nightstop - we are a Brighton & Hove charity that can offer young people age 16-25 years experiencing homelessness a safe, warm and friendly place to stay overnight in our welcoming host homes.

Nightstop stays are a short-term solution to homelessness. Whilst staying in Nightstop our service co-ordinators then work closely with our guests to link them with housing advice workers who can support in finding a more longer-term housing solution. We will also support our guests to access any other services that may be important to them achieving their housing plan. These could be matters relating to health, well-being, finance/benefits, work, study, social and so forth.

Our service is open for referrals between 9.00-3.00pm, Monday to Friday.

The ability for us to offer Nightstop placements is dependent on the number of volunteer hosts we have available to us. Please ring us on 07500 770 996 to check current availability before proceeding – we’re always happy to hear from you.

Young people who stay with Nightstop must meet the following criteria:

•   Have a Local Connection: has lived here for 6 out of the last 12 months or 2 out of the last 5 years, studying/working in the area, immediate family living in the local area
•   Have ID
•   Have access or rights to public funding such as benefits and housing access
•   Be able to manage their own needs and not require high levels of support from others to stay safe, well and manage independently
•   Have the potential to put a housing plan in place (with help from a housing advice worker)
•   Be prepared to sign up to Nightstop placement conditions

If you meet the above criteria, please complete this form together with the person who has recommended Nightstop to you. A service coordinator will get in touch with you to discuss next steps. You can meet our service coordinators in a short video and find out more about Sussex Nightstop here. You can also meet our hosts on Instagram.

Please note: For the best chance of a same-day placement we’d advise you to put in your referral form before 11.00am. We are not always able to set up a Nightstop placement on the same day that we receive a referral as it may not always be feasible to do everything we need to do to set up a safe placement in time, including meeting you face2face.

Your name and details

1. Name (First and Last)

2. What name would you like us to use? (if different to above)

3. What are your preferred pro-nouns?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

4. What's your date of birth? This question requires a valid date format of MM/DD/YYYY.

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5. What's your mobile number?

6. What's your email? This question requires a valid email address.

Information to support your referral

7. Tell us a bit about where you’re sleeping at the moment and why you are worried about being homeless.
(for example, tell us if you are sofa-surfing / staying somewhere else unsuitable / rough-sleeping and for how long, or if you are at risk of homelessness, when you think you might run out of a safe option of somewhere to sleep. It's also really useful to tell us how or why this has happened)

8. What's your local connection to the Brighton & Hove area?
(e.g. lived here for 6 out of the last 12 months or 2 out of the last 5 years, studying or working in the area, immediate family living in the local area)

9. Do you have access or rights to public funding such as benefits and housing access?

10. We require all potential guests to provide a form of Photo ID e.g. passport, driving licence, student card

Please tick any of the boxes below to tell us which form(s) of ID you have.

Driving licence
Passport
Student card
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

11. It’s very important that Nightstop provides a safe, warm and welcoming service for anyone who stays with us. This means we need to think about your physical and mental well-being as well as the other things that make you feel comfortable and safe.

Tell us a little bit about your physical health - do you have any illness or diagnosed conditions?

12. How would you describe your mental health? (e.g. tell us if you are feeling happy, anxious, depressed, or are having suicidal thoughts)

13. As part of our assessment of all guests who stay with Nightstop we carry out Police checks. Tell us about any contact with the police that might come up if we were to run that check.

14. Is there anything else you would like to tell us about yourself?

Thanks for giving us those details.
This last section is for the person who has referred you to Sussex Nightstop to complete:

15. Your name and job title

16. The organisation you work for

17. Your relationship to this young person

18. Length of relationship with the young person and frequency of contact with them

19. Your contact email This question requires a valid email address.

20. Your contact phone number

21. Do you as the person supporting this young person's application think the young person could be considered as presenting a risk to themselves?

22. Please provide further details

22. Do you think the young person could be considered as presenting a risk to others?

23. Please provide further details

23. Do you think the young person could be at risk from someone else?

24. Please provide further details

24. Given your knowledge of the Nightstop scheme conditions, do you foresee any problems with the young person keeping to these conditions?

25. Why is that?