Informed Practices & Supports
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"If you have met one autistic person, you have met one autistic person"
Styles of Services Provided
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Day Service
Our Day Supports model strives to:
- Use Person Centred Planning systems to deliver outstanding outcomes for people.
- Develop sustainable support strategies for each person supported.
- Ensure that the concepts of Human rights, neurodiversity and self-actualisation are at the heart of support planning.
- Embrace a culture of creativity, innovation and dynamism.
- Build capacity and develop social capital in a person’s local community so that people supported can partake as they see fit in an inclusive society
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Living Options
Gheel’s Living Options models of support will:
- Strive to uphold Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities
- Develop robust pathways that will allow for people supported by Gheel to progress towards a supported living option that best suits their will and need
- Develop a range of flexible and natural support options that will ensure that people supported will have an exceptional quality of life in their local community.
- Ensure that people supported have choice and control with regard to all elements of their own home
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Transition
Gheel’s transition support team use a caseworker model to provide 1:1 supports so that individuals availing of supports can be supported to:
- Develop an understanding and a personalised strategy with regard to how your autism interacts with the world!
- Develop personalised support strategies and to plan for and realise your career ambitions
- Develop personalised strategies and to support planning to enhance friendships, relationships, community involvement and active citizenship
- Plan for the next stages of life in areas such as housing, career, passions and interests.
- Ensure that positive well being strategies are at the core of your support planning
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Community Support
Our Community Support Teams will support you to build the necessary skills to support you to live as independently as possible by ensuring that:
- you have exactly the right amount of support that you need at times that suit you
- you have tailor made support arrangements that support you to live the lifestyle of your choosing
- your rights with regard to tenancy arrangements, career progression and community participation are paramount at all times
- you are supported to build capacity in the areas of your life that you currently need assistance with
- creative solutions with regard to sustainable supports will be structured around your needs and preferences and will be focused on your positive well being