Lisa was made homeless when her Mum split up with her partner. When she came to Camberwell Foyer she was in a lot of debt, had no qualifications and was reliant on cannabis, which she used to calm herself down.

Lisa hadn’t completed her GCSEs, she fell behind after missing school to hang out with her friends and in the end she just gave up.

At Camberwell Foyer she had a one-to-one learning assessment with a Foundations for Life worker, it was the first time she had spoken about not finishing school and it made her realise that she did want to complete her GCSEs. She’s now doing Maths and English through an online Learn Direct course and has enrolled at a local college to do Media Studies.

The FFL facilities at Camberwell mean she can use the computers to do her Learn Direct course online and she has been going to the Life Skills workshops in the training kitchen, learning how to cook healthy meals and has given up smoking cannabis.

“Without Foundations for Life and the support it offers at Camberwell, I would probably never have realised I wanted to do my GCSEs and achieved what I have so far.”