Home Stretch WA offers young people the ‘right’ to a visible and secure financial safety net. Invest in Me Funding is used to support young people towards their aspirations, to help them in times of crisis, and to grow their skills, knowledge and connections to community and culture. Invest In Me funding is not just about paying for things; every time it is used it is an opportunity to grow a young person’s agency and self reliance.

​Invest in Me funding is offered through the coaching relationship and administered by Home Stretch WA service providers. Home Stretch providers are provided a pooled funding amount to enable a young person to access more or less dependent on their individual needs. By following the Invest In Me Practice guidelines, a broad range of support needs can be met whilst also growing young people’s financial self-reliance.

​Young people are supported to access mainstream resources and public services, and where there are gaps the Invest In Me Funding should be used as part of a plan. There is always an expectation that young people contribute (chip-in or chuck in) to costs, but this isn’t always financial.

Invest In Me effectively replaces young people’s need to access Leaving Care Funding through a district office, but for some high value costs a transition coach will work collaboratively with the district office to agree on how these costs might be covered.