Home Star
For people with housing or related needs
Who is the Home Star for?
The Home Star has been developed for people who have difficulties with housing or have other complex needs and may be seeking support with finding and keeping a home, improving relationships or learning new skills for dealing with problems.
The Home Star helps them and the services supporting them identify progress towards key outcomes like where they’re living, health, and friendships and relationships, and give clarity on where to focus next.
Using the Outcomes Star approach
The Home Star is designed to be used as part of the Outcomes Star approach. That’s why we provide essential training and ongoing support to all licenced practitioners, so you can embed the Outcomes Star approach in your practice.
How does the Home Star work?
The Home Star covers ten key outcome areas that help support people who have difficulties with housing or other complex needs, and assesses their progress towards each following a five-stage Journey of Change.
You and the people you support will fill out the Star together, and use it to better identify where their strengths lie and where they might need more help, and to make plans for moving forward along the journey.
Outcome areas
Where I'm living
Caring for myself and my space
My money
Friends and relationships
My health
How I feel
How I spend my time
Alcohol and drugs
Safety and crime
Trust and hope
The Journey of Change
01
Stuck
02
Getting help
03
Believing and trying
04
Finding what works
05
Self-reliance
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Always rooted in expertise and experience
The Home Star is the new version of our original outcome measurement tool to co-create and measure personal change – previously known as the Homelessness Star. This Star was revised and redeveloped in response to feedback from keyworkers, managers and service users in a wide range of homelessness and other organisations. St Mungo’s played a vital role in developing the original Star for homelessness. Other organisations who collaborated on and contributed to this issue include Homeless Link, Crisis, Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE), Brighton Women’s Centre, Salvation Army, Victoria, Ruha, MEAM, P3, Two Saints, C2C Social Action and Unique Outcomes.
