National House Project
Rachelann Brooks
Project Lead
rachelanne.brooks@manchester.gov.uk
Project Leads manage the project, staff and build relationships with partners
Rachelann has been working within the youth sector for the past 17 years and has an extensive range of experience in youth work ranging across a wide variety of the youth sector, which has enabled her to obtain a genuine enthusiasm and passion for working with young people from multi-cultural and challenging backgrounds between the ages of 8 – 21 years old and up to 25 with any additional needs with the aim of building and maintaining sustainable relationships.
Rachelann has a Masters and Post Graduate Diploma in Youth and Community Work which was obtained in 2012 / 2013 and has had over 6 years of management experience working as a Senior Co-ordinator and Alternative Provision Manager at Mahdlo Youth Zone in Oldham.
Rachelann wants to be a part of developing the partnership between Manchester and Trafford House Project and providing opportunities for care leavers to be able to make a house into a home and support them to achieve their life goals.
Latest News
CYPNow - NHP Supports Care Leaver Apprentices
The National House Project (NHP) has been hosting apprentices since 2021. The organisation, which was incorporated as a charity in 2018, works with local authorities that have set up their own Local House Project (LHP), a scheme that helps young people leave care in a planned and supported way. Young people, both in and leaving care, are brought together in groups to create their first homes, learn new skills and join a long-term community of support that can develop pathways into education, employment and training. With 17 LHPs established across England, involving more than 700 young people, around half of these local projects provide apprenticeships as part of their offer, explains Sue Hammersley, director of NHP. There have been three young people so far that have undertaken an apprenticeship with NHP. Hammersley says all apprenticeships offered at NHP and across the LHPs are business administrative roles, although one project in Oxford has offered a participation apprenticeship after linking in with a local college.
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House Projects in Scotland event - March 2024
We were delighted to be joined by Natalie Don, The Minister for Children, Young People and Keeping the Promise, Fraser McKinlay, CEO of The Promise Scotland and Heather Coady, an Independent Consultant, who share a passion and commitment to changing the system for people in, and leaving, care in Scotland. Not only did they address the conference but they got to hear from Local House Project staff and young people on how they are working together to improve the way in which young people leave care and how this meets the commitments made in The Promise in 2020.
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Visit to Cohort 3!
Went to visit the young people this week from our previous cohort in their new homes now they are a bit more settled and have mostly everything they need.
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