Nightstop tackles youth homelessness by providing emergency overnight accommodation for young people who are facing a night on the streets or sleeping in an unsafe place. Volunteer hosts, who are ordinary members of the community- though vetted and well known to St Basils- open their homes to young people.
The Vision for Nightstop is that no young person should sleep in an unsafe place, ever.
Our ‘Nightstop’ schemes, accredited by and established in line with the national DePaul model, help ensure all young people across Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry have a safe home to go to.
Nightstop takes away much of the risk associated with helping a ‘stranger’, as these young people are already known to us, have had a full assessment including a risk assessment and a thorough matching process is applied to any posting.
St Basils Nightstop service is run by the same team who have already been running very successful Supported Lodgings schemes across Birmingham, Solihull, Worcestershire and Coventry, where young people also stay with a Host but for several months and receive support from both the host and St Basils staff.