Crisis Skylight: An Evaluation - Year One Interim Report

In the last three decades it has become apparent that homelessness is often characterised as much by a lack of social integration as by a lack of adequate, affordable and secure housing. Crisis developed Skylight to counteract the experiences of sustained worklessness, poverty, disconnection from family, friends and mainstream social life that can often characterise homelessness, particularly where that homelessness is sustained or recurrent. Skylight was also designed to engage with homeless people, including chronically homeless groups, whose lack of social integration was combined with mental health problems or severe mental illness, problematic use of drugs and alcohol and poor, or very poor, physical health.

Crisis Skylight services are designed to transform the social and economic position of single homeless people. This report details the results of the first year of a three-year evaluation of Skylights in Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Merseyside, Newcastle and Oxford.

Publication Date: 
2014
Location: 
UK