CAN provides supported housing in Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough and East Northants for single people in need of help to address issues affecting tenancy sustainment such as drug and alcohol problems.
Our Tenancy Support Service in CAN housing encourages people to take ownership of what needs to be done for them to move forward through identifying positive solutions themselves in the support planning process.
Assistance, guidance and support is provided to work towards living safely and independently alongside looking at opportunities to enjoy a more fulfilling and positive life.
New Flats This month will see Orbit hand over another three flats in the Phase Project.These flats are the first to become available for the Phase Project in Corby. They are all ‘off the shelf’ purchases and are located on a large development in the town. CAN will, as with all the other Phase properties, [...]
Rolling Programme As part of our usual six monthly rolling programme we’re about to undertake another round of client surveys. We’ve streamlined the survey form but, as ever, we’re always learning about how to do things better so we can’t say yet that it’s the final version of the form. The guys from UP2U are [...]
Homeless, Children in Care K moved into Can shared housing when she was 33 years old, homeless and her three children were in care. K was injecting up to 5 bags of heroin a day, she had been using for 14 years. K was also positive for the hepatitis c virus. K is now a [...]
Drug-related Crime MD is a man who has lived in a CAN managed flat in Corby for several years. He was a heroin user, has a history of drug related crime, has had 2 custodial sentances and has a mental health disorder (psychosis). MD also suffers from anxiety, depression and agoraphobia making it difficult for [...]
Robbery Sentence MJ is a man who had lived in CAN managed flat for some years. He was housed after his release from prison where he was serving a sentence for robbery. MJ had problematic alcohol use before his custodial sentence. He also occasionally used speed and other amphetamines. MJ suffers from severe depression and [...]
AM is a young woman who was referred by the CAN CJIT Team, having just been released from a custodial sentence for supplying class A drugs. Subutex When AM was first housed, she was on a Subutex prescription. At first she was extremely volatile and demanding, trying to demand new fittings, furniture etc for her [...]
CAN Community in Corby provides ten bed spaces for single adults with support needs. The bed spaces are split into seven spaces in shared housing and three spaces in self-contained flats.
