Somali Adult Social Care Agency (SASCA) exists to help identify and meet the needs of Somali adults in the City of Manchester. Through a mixture of advocacy and advice. We try to deal with any issue that clients bring.
What SASCA Does
Most of our work is related to benefits, housing repairs, rehousing, debt, immigration, communicating with mainstream agencies. We also work with partners (e.g. NHS) to promote health and social care support, leisure activities, training and signposting to other agencies.
We help people from all over the city of Manchester with welfare benefits, housing repairs and rehousing, debt, council tax, getting access to all sorts of vital services like health and simple (unaccredited) information and signposting on immigration.
Experience shows:
- us helping one person face to face usually means that a whole household benefits.
- one case may involve many days’ work spread over months. Sometimes we help someone just by explaining what a simple letter from an agency means or helping them make a phone call. These may seem very simple issues but not dealing with them can lead to catastrophes like losing a tenancy, court action etc.
SASCA is based in Moss Side in Manchester. It was founded in 2007 and is run by the Somali community.
SASCA works with Manchester City Council and other partners to help the integration of all people.
SASCA volunteers work to identify the needs of the Somali community in Greater Manchester.
In a joint research project with Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) called Hope for the Future, SASCA identified three core subjects which would help the integration process: health, education and young people.
The SASCA Office
SASCA’s office is open weekdays 10am-2pm, it offers advice and informs people about public services, health and care support, social contact within and outside the community, healthy living, safe and independency in work, education and retirement.
Our Newspaper
SASCA has launched a newspaper in Somali in order to cover the needs of the Somali community in Manchester in this regard, SASCA decided to launch this newspaper after it had found out that many Somalis are not fully aware of the major stories unfolding in the United Kingdom and the changes taking place in terms of social security, housing and other things that could affect their daily lives. This newspaper is ran by SASCA staff and volunteers who are trained by experts from Manchester Metropolitan University. The first edition of this newspaper was published in May 2015.