Day services
Day services
About Day services
Our Day Services is about offering autistic people a person-centred support-led service with opportunities to input and design their own support journey.
These structured, person-centred programmes offer the necessary communication strategies and support plans to enable a person to develop independently, safely and confidently.
Day Services follows a pathway that works alongside the support journey in our other services, using the different ‘streams’ that we have designed. A person will be placed into a certain stream based upon their personal needs and individual support journey.
Types of streams
Sessions include
- Animal Care working with alpacas, goats, pigs, chickens and guinea pigs.
- Art
- Café
- Community-based excursions
- Cooking & life skills
- Dance & performing arts
- Gym
- Media
- Music
- Photography
- Use of machinery, including tractors, ride on mowers, drills, strimmers.
These sessions are underpinned by a range of achievement awards that people we support can work towards. We have our own Awards Co-ordinator who will support everyone to achieve various awards linked to the activities they choose to participate in. These awards are given in recognition for completing ASDAN, John Muir, Gateway and e-learning courses.
Wrap Around Service
The Wrap Around service is new service that Autism Together are offering to support families of people that use our day services by providing care and support for individuals prior to and after the main structured session of day services.
This pre-bookable service means that people who attend our day service, which starts at 9.30am, can arrive anytime from 7.45am and be supported to have a breakfast snack, do a small activity or even just spend time chilling out and watching TV. The evening session, will run from 4pm with collection anytime up to 6.15pm. Again, we will provide a snack and safe, relaxing space for people to be supported after day services.
Support in these sessions will be tailored to the individuals, but will operate a ‘core’ model of support to provide a cost-effective service. There will always be at least 2 staff members on duty and the support ratio will be no more than 1 staff to 3 people we support.
The service runs out of The Enterprise Centre in Bromborough Pool Village, Monday to Friday and either morning, afternoon or both sessions can be purchased, but must be booked in advance.
Weekend Sessional Support
The Weekend Sessional Support Service is a form of Weekend Respite that will run every Saturday & Sunday between 9.30 and 4.30pm. The service will operate from one of our day service locations and will provide a base from where people can access the community, take part in activities such as art, games, using the computer or baking.
Although this is run from the day service locations, this is not a day service – the activities will be lower key and only as structured as the person needs it to be.
We recognise that supporting a person with Autism can be difficult at times, and families may need a break, or maybe you have a special event that you need to attend, but no-one to support your family member. We want to bridge that gap and provide the support required for the day.
Support in these sessions will operate a ‘core’ model of support to provide a cost-effective service, people accessing the support will be assessed based on their needs and the costing will be appropriate to the individual.
Our Admissions and Referrals Team
Services covered by our admissions team are Supported Living, Day Services, and Residential services.
Our aim is to liaise closely with the individual, families, and local authorities to identify the service(s) required and to support them in identifying and securing funding. We will liaise with service managers to ensure a smooth transition for the individual into the services.
We are based in Oak House and our direct line for referrals or enquiries is 0151 482 3126.