Complex histories or risky behaviours

For people with complex histories or risky behaviours

Myriad Care supports people with a history of risky behaviours to change their lives. People like Henry and Reece.

Our work is closely aligned to the NHS Transforming Care Service model. We support people out of long stay institutions, helping them build new lives in their local communities.

Alongside other agencies working within the Transforming Care agenda, we support people to grow in confidence, develop empathy, and thrive in their homes and local communities. In other words, to recover.

Screening, Assessment and Costs

Following initial screening, we will arrange a detailed, bespoke assessment at an agreed cost. We will decide together if we can support someone well. We will agree a timeframe together. We will send you a plan and a cost. If you, or we, do not think we are the best provider, the assessment can help you identify the right one.

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Transition planning

We will agree a named person from the operational team to liaise with the referring partner and a named person from the practice development team to liaise with the place the person is currently living. We will agree who else needs to be involved with someone when they move into their own home in the community and how the reviews will happen.

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Supporting Safe Living

Safe Living

Over the past 10 years we have helped many people in desperately difficult circumstances to recover, using our established Myriad Care approach, outlined below.

We work with people who are typically in high cost NHS beds, many of whom do not have agreed plans in place to leave these beds.

When we start to work with people it might be the first time they have lived in their own home. We really get to know them and agree with them how they want their lives to change. It is important we do not support people forever and we see it as a real success when someone no longer needs our support.

Who we support

The Transforming Care agenda says that ‘… adults with a learning disability and/or autism who display risky behaviours, which may put themselves or others at risk and which could lead to contact with the criminal justice system, are a distinct group whose specific needs have not always been recognised.’

These people are at the heart of our Waymarks approach and we help them change their lives, supporting people out of care or hospital and helping them build their ambition to thrive as tenants in their own home and in their local community.

How we work

Giving people a reason to care gives people a reason to change.

The people we support need intensive and very structured support at first. Relationships with us are not the same as relationships with friends, people in the community, family or work colleagues. We are always working to reduce the amount of paid support someone needs in a structured, safe and planned way, helping the person to shape their own support.

Our beliefs

All Myriad Care colleagues operating within the Myriad Care approach are expected to share the following beliefs. These inform all aspects of our approach:

We focus on the person and work within a rights-based approach.
We put safety as our number one priority.
We keep a small span of control
We build trust from the people we support, the wider health, social and justice system, the people we employ, families and the communities we work in.
Everyone has the chance for a fresh start. People we support have rarely had investment from a humanistic perspective and we believe everyone we support should have that chance.
People we support have experienced discrimination and lots of labelling, they are citizens and have the same human and legal rights as anyone else.
Some people sometimes break the law, this is not a good thing. The people we support have sometimes broken the law. They might make mistakes in the future but we would never excuse someone for breaking the law.
We only support people who understand and would benefit from the model that we work in.
We can only be successful in supporting someone if we provide support as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team.
We will not support someone if we do not think they have the potential to change and move on from the support model we offer, to a more independent lifestyle.

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