Pat Doyle, CEO, Peter McVerry Trust Peter McVerry Trust, the national housing and homeless charity, has announced plans to double its own Housing First work this year.
The charity, which was an early adopter of the internationally recognised approach to ending homelessness that focuses on providing both housing and intensive case management simultaneously, is set to expand its delivery of the model outside of Dublin to include counties Kildare and Limerick in 2018.
Flagship
Pat Doyle, CEO of Peter McVerry Trust, said: “In 2018 the charity will mark 35 years in existence and to coincide with that occasion we will expand our flagship Housing First programme by a further 35 individuals. This means the programme will expand from 25 to 60 participants.”
He added that the charity hopes by the end of 2018 that they will have a cohort of 10 individuals in Limerick and a further 8 in Kildare.
It plans to target specific groups, such as those exiting State care and other institutions including hospitals and prisons.