Currently our hostel is open 24 hours a day. Occupancy of the 90 beds stands at 92%. Each year the hostel impacts on over 200 vulnerable young men at risk. Most are aged between 16 and 25 often demonstrating challenging behaviour. Young people come to our hostel for a variety of reasons, often they are escaping abuse or relationship breakdown. Many are at risk of re-offending. All need practical and emotional support. We work with them over several months to help restore their damaged self-esteem, giving them positive life choices and providing support and training in a range of life skills. The Two new accommodation units will help us to continueand develop our work and will cost £8,202,099 The new residential assessment centre in the heart of Norwich is the first phase of our project, which will help us approach an old problem in a radical new way. Youngsters who come to us for housing will be welcomed to a purpose-built centre, a place where they will be valued, safe and supported. This 34-bedded YMCA is next to the new Norwich bus-station site. All rooms will have en-suite facilities with full restaurant provision. Clients will be both male and female with a target age range of 16-25 years. They will stay for just a few weeks while they are assessed and expertly matched with the right sort of ‘move-on’ housing provision and support, which may well include our second development. The builders are already on site and our estimated completion date will be November 2008. We anticipate opening on 1 January 2009, if not sooner. The total cost of this first phase is £2,871,599. The second phase of our project is an attractive new development of 40 self-contained units for independent living. The young residents will learn self-reliance, respect for others and life skills from trained key workers readily available at their point of need. In addition each young person has the chance to join our in-house Y-Life course which, gives residents practical help to develop their life skills, in areas like IT, first aid, budgeting, hygiene and nutrition. Each course is closely matched to the clients personal need and life issues and provides motivation, encouragement and skills to help them to move on, get a job, maintain a relationship and ultimately live independently and thus break the cycle of repeat offending and homelessness. It is anticipated that work will commence on this phase shortly with an anticipated opening date of 1 January 2010, it has received unanimous planning consent by the local authority and will cost £5,330,500