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Acquired Brain Injury
Attendant Care Services
Camp Care
Camp to Belong
Community Participation Program
Crisis Care Support
Foster Care Services
Hunter Accommodation Support Services
In House Support Services
Professional and Consultancy Services
Professional Development
Residential Services for Young People
Self Managed Support Services
Sydney Accommodation Support Services
Training and Support Centre
Transition to Work Program
Acquired Brain Injury
Specialised support services in the community for people with Acquired Brain Injury is provided in a Group Home setting which assists client to greater involvement and independence in the community.
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Attendant Care Services
This service provides in home support to clients who are seeking to remain living in their own home. A person centred approach allows Lifestyle Solutions to cater to the individual needs of clients.
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Camp Care
Camp Care specialises in facilitating school holiday camps for children and young people who have behaviour and emotional problems and are not readily accepted by mainstream camping organisations such as the NSW Department of Sport and Recreation.
Children and young people who are referred to Camp Care have a range of complex needs including but not limited to:
• Physical Disability
• Intellectual Disability
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Conduct Disorder
• Oppositional Defiance Disorder
• Trust issues
• Low self esteem
• Low self confidence
• Anger Management Issues
• Difficulty with socialisation
• Violent outbursts
• Sexualised behaviour.
Camps are held during every school holiday period. Holiday camps are held during the April, July and October holidays, and six camps are held during the Christmas School holidays.
The camps run for three days and two nights. Our experience has shown us that this length of time allows children and young people who have complex needs to have a great camp experience without causing too much interruption to their stable routines at home.
Lifestyle Solutions Camp Care school holiday camps operates camps in small groups with a staff ratio of one camp carer to four young people Children and young people are given the opportunity to:
• Develop their social skills and behaviour management skills
• Work as part of a team
• Form positive relationships with other children and camp carers;
• Participate in a wide range of recreational and educational activities.
There is a great deal of research that demonstrates that outdoor recreation programs, including camps, assist in developing social and living skills, and in particular assist children and young people who may have challenging behaviour to self manage.
Lifestyle Solutions Camp Care program accepts referrals from within Lifestyle Solutions as well from NSW DoCS and other non government organisations who provide services to children and young people in out of home care.
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Camp to Belong
Siblings may not have the opportunity to read bedtime stories together at night have breakfast together, cheer for each other at school functions or share precious holidays – all the things that typical siblings get to do each day. Siblings are often taken for granted. Yet, the sibling relationship can be our longest relationship in life.
Our primary goal is to provide a sense of belonging to youth as individuals, and as siblings, giving them opportunities to share childhood memories together and among other youth in the same situations. CTB is not about finding a brother or sister. It is about reuniting siblings that may live in the same town, maybe even go to the same school, but live in separate homes.
Lifestyle Solutions will run Camp To Belong as part of its time limited targeted wrap around support services. Camp to Belong will form part of the case planning process for children and young people living in out of home care and will have a focus on the development and ongoing promotion of Life Story Work for children and young people living in out of home care.
Lifestyle Solutions Camp To Belong Program will focus on a number of areas that promote family relationships.
These include but are not limited to;
• Positive family contact between siblings in a safe and nurturing environment
• Positive family contact between children and young people living in out of home care and their birth parents through our ‘connection day’ during the CTB program.
• Facilitation and ongoing development of Life Story Work for individual children and siblings. Children and young people who attend Camp to Belong will have the opportunity to participate in a range of activities that promote independence, resilience, team work and family relationships. These activities include but are not limited to outdoor adventure activities, sports programs.
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Community Participation Program
This program provides centred based activities, along with community access, for young people with a disability who have recently left school. For the most part these young people are not able to enter the work place and need support to develop living, social and personal skills. All the programs are individually based and seek to support the clients to gain greater independence in all areas of life. Service outlets are in the Central Coast, Newcastle, Hunter North Coast and Port Stephens areas.
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Crisis Care Support
At different times people with a disability will find themselves requiring crisis accommodation support and in conjunction with DADHC Lifestyle Solutions seeks to support people in these time. As part of this placement Individual Service Plans can be developed to assist in future planning and placement.
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Foster Care Services
Lifestyle Solutions is currently seeking accreditation from the Office of Children’s Guardian to provide Foster Care Placements.
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Hunter Accommodation Support Services
Lifestyle Solutions provides accommodation to 46 residents in the Newcastle area. The accommodation provided ranges from 24 hour care to drop in support and seeks to support residents in the community.
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In House Support Services
It is important that people with a disability are able to remain in their own home as long as possible. Lifestyle Solutions is committed to developing in home support models to meet the unique needs of individuals requiring support.
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Professional and Consultancy Services
Lifestyle Solutions is also developing a wide range of consulting services to provide education services in the Hunter region. In providing these services the company both seeks to share expertise and learn from other organisations in the service sector. Whether it be policy and procedure, organisational systems development, quality assurance or issues related to the complex nature of disabilities, Lifestyle Solutions can provide comprehensive guidance and support.
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Professional Development
Lifestyle Solutions is currently developing a professional development and training program to strengthen and build capacity in the disability sector. A wide spectrum of courses will be made available and through consultation and negotiation will be tailored to meet the needs of the organisation requiring this service.
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Residential Services for Young People
Lifestyle Solutions has recently been awarded a three year contract from the NSW Department of Community Services (DoCS) to provide out of home care placements to children and young people with disabilities and complex needs in the Sydney area.
Lifestyle Solutions out of home care program has six residential care homes situated throughout metropolitan Sydney. Community support workers are supported by a multidisciplinary team which includes community support managers, future planners, psychologists and programmers.
Lifestyle Solutions residential care program focuses on ensuring that children and young people are provided with the highest levels of quality care that meets standards of best practice in out of home care. Future planners work closely with children, young people and their families to ensure that case work focuses on permanency planning and empowers each young person to achieve their goals.
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Self Managed Services
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Sydney Accommodation Support Services
These accommodation services support 10 individuals in unique settings in Northern Sydney. Services seek to provide a quality life to individuals based on their particular support needs.
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Training and Support Centre
Lifestyle Solutions Training and Support Centre offers a broad range of activities and programs that are focused on strengthening skills, building capacity and promoting independence and self reliance. This program is facilitated through our Community Builder initiative with additional goals being to develop community networks and optimizing community integration for residents living in Lifestyle Solutions accommodation services.
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Transition to Work Program
The focus of the Lifestyle Solutions Transition to Work (TTW) program revolves around a person centred approach and the development of a range of short and medium goals to secure employment or other vocational options. Initially a platform is provided to build upon the successes and achievements that the student has experience at school. Through a range of diverse and flexible pathways the service user may enter the program at any level with the focus being to strengthen and maintain skills and provide opportunities to address areas of need. The ultimate goal of this program is to provide young school leavers with disabilities with the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to gain and maintain meaningful and rewarding employment. Lifestyle Solutions Transition to Work services operate in Newcastle, North Coast and Port Stephens areas.
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