To show case our housing and health policy work we invited Local Government Minister: Marcus Jones to Sevenoaks to see first hand the innovative work we are doing to prevent homelessness by identifying the early causes with schemes like our award winning advice service known as HERO. Our HERO advisors help people with debt, getting into work and budgeting to prevent circumstances spiralling out iof control.
We later developed our HERO advisors into Super HEROs where they were able to signpost people who have health needs and we discovered many people in debt also suffered from mental ill health and had other health complaints. Our Super HEROs started to work in doctors surgeries helping people with the causes of their medical complaint. An example includes sorting out the damp in their home rather than treating their asthma with medication.
