Pre-Cruise BBQ
Well, you can see something of what we get up to! Anything they can dream up – we find ways to do… well – we haven’t NOT managed anything yet!
We see our job as helping our service users to develop new skills, keep up the old ones and push the boundaries of how great they can be!
Our young adults are aged from 17 right through to 60 depending on what they want from life!
Through the Individual Service Plan we meet with anyone the service user chooses to help them. This plan sets out the goals and the support the young person wants to achieve in life in a way that is age appropriate.
That might be a mixture of 1 to 1 support for some things or stuff they want to do with friends, but need some support to do it. We can help the transition to living independently and all that entails like remembering to do the washing up or attention to details like personal hygiene, shopping, budgeting and meal preparation.
We help with understanding what friendship are – and are not. We offer support with party invitations, applying for employment, volunteering as well as how to have a Beer and BBQ night.We celebrate lots of things with BBQ’s or dinners like St Patrick’s Day and Valentine’s Day and when we travel overseas – we try to learn some new languages!
We encourage careful risk taking – like riding a bicycle or parashuting! We help to discover the world of hobbies and interests, the theatre, heavy metal concerts, football, theatre, public speaking, singing, driving and generally anything that looks like fun.
We help service users keep or reconnect with old school friends, as well as making new friends. We offer training about healthy relationships and are not afraid to discuss S*X and we always refer on to appropriate services if that is what the person wants.
We encourage community agencies to open their arms to people with disabilities and we prefer that community facilities and networks and agencies are used for activities and resources that we don’t provide.
We like to TRAVEL!!! Take a look at the Flexi Holiday pages.
