{"id":5564,"date":"2022-12-06T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.depaul.org.uk\/?post_type=stories&p=5564"},"modified":"2023-05-12T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:16:42","slug":"adams-story","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.depaul.org.uk\/stories\/adams-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam’s story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After his long-term relationship ended, Adam found himself with nowhere to go. When his father passed away, his situation spiralled and he was forced to sleep rough.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t work out with the relationship I was in and I came home back to Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad was like my best mate, he was like my mother and my father. My old man passed away and I thought it was time to make amends with my mum. Then, when I needed her most, she wasn\u2019t there. She kicked me out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to mix it up with a few friends, and then if I couldn\u2019t, I had to go on the streets. I was sleeping in all sorts of places. For three nights, I stayed really, really rough which I never thought I\u2019d ever, ever have to do. It\u2019s embarrassing saying it really. I stayed on the street once, and then in a block of flats in a drying room.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awful. I\u2019m a tradesman \u2500 a bricklayer \u2500 but I couldn\u2019t transport my tools from wherever I was staying to work. I had always had my little boy when I had a stable home but when I came back to Middlesbrough I didn\u2019t have a stable home so I weren\u2019t seeing him either.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust everything went really, really downhill. I kept trying the council but I kept getting pushed from pillar to post and then I heard of Nightstop.<\/p>\n

Nightstop<\/a> is Depaul\u2019s same night emergency accommodation, providing a safe place for people in crisis and the support to move on to a place to call home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI was with Nightstop for maybe one month. It was really good. They were all really lovely. There is nice people out there you know. I couldn\u2019t believe how fast bad things can happen but the right people are out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, Depaul helped me out with getting a house and I got funding for the first month of rent for my own flat. If it weren\u2019t for Depaul, I wouldn\u2019t have had no money to get this place. It\u2019s beautiful \u2500 I\u2019m in a little two bed flat. Painted it all. My son loves it. He\u2019s got his own bedroom full of dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m back working again too. I proper, really appreciate it. It can get you quite emotional. From being down in the dumps. If it weren\u2019t for Nightstop \u2500 I would have still been there.<\/p>\n

\u201cNightstop is the place to go. It really helped me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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