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Outreach

 

Our Outreach service is designed for specific needs of individuals no matter what their living situation. We offer all kinds of support from 24 hour care, to accompanying individuals on their weekly shopping trip.

If you feel you would like some support from our Outreach team, please complete our referral form.

What kind of support is provided?

  • Developing life skills, such as cooking, shopping and maintaining a home
  • Developing independence
  • Learning about finance and budgeting
  • Maintaining a healthy lifestyle
  • Accessing community activities and college
  • Attending health appointments
  • Accessing employment and voluntary work

Who can have Outreach support?

  • Anyone over the age of 18 living with a learning difficulty/disability.

When can I be supported?

  • The support that we offer to individuals is flexible; we work around the specific needs to achieve a positive outcome and a happy living situation for all.
  • The amount of support we give is completely dependent on the individual’s needs; we may visit from as little as 2 hours a week to every day.

How much will it cost?

  • Our Outreach service is priced depending on the level of support that you will need. We carry out an assessment to ascertain this.

How will I pay?

  • Using a personal budget or direct payments.
  • You can use your own money and fund yourself.

Will I need to get anywhere?

  • Not necessarily, staff use the About with Friends vehicles as well as their own personal vehicles for transport purposes.

 

Having spent many years in school with little improvements in I’s behaviour and speech, in just a few weeks with you the improvements in both areas are plain to see. Please continue as you are, as life at the moment for us as a family is greatly improved because of your input.

A big thank you to yourself and the About with Friends staff for another great trip! J had a fantastic time, going on the Harry Potter Studio Tour, which he had wanted to do for ages and ages.

Just wanted to say a big thank you to you and everyone else that supported H on the recent trip – she had an amazing time. I enjoyed look at the Twitter feed to see what you had been up to.

Many thanks again for J’s lovely break in Derbyshire with About with Friends. He really enjoyed himself, had loads of fun and told us all about the cable cars, stepping stones, cinema, meals out, etc.! We would be very grateful if you could pass on our sincere thanks to all the staff who organised the holiday and supported our youngsters to enable them to have such a wonderful time. We are also very grateful as we, ourselves, were able to enjoy a short break in Paris, which was wonderful and recharged our batteries!

About with Friends and you particularly, have done some great work with excellent outcomes for D. I was particularly pleased to hear that you are working on integration with the Youth Group as I felt he would miss out on peer interaction if he didn’t come to college.

I haven’t seen D for ages and he looks like a new man . The stress has gone from his face – he looks great Well done !!!!

Thank you for taking K to Milton Keynes on holiday, it made her extremely happy. Selfishly, it gave my wife a much sought after period of respite after 16 years of constant care.

We cannot tell you what AWF means to us as a family – a lifeline, a light in the dark. Something that has offered our daughter equality, to have a social life and really support us as a family.

Over the last five years I have had a fortnightly, 2 hour designated gardening slot. I highly value your service and ethos.

I’ve got my life back