www.cedar-foundation.org the cedar foundation joanne barnes & shauna smyth
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The Cedar Foundation
Joanne Barnes & Shauna Smyth
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Our MissionProvide exceptional services that support children and adults with disabilities to participate in all aspects of community life
Our Values
Champion inclusion
Empower Service Users
Deliver excellence
Achieve results
Respect others
Our VisionA society accessible to all
The Cedar FoundationMission, Vision & Values
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A Society Accessible to
All
Empowering Service Users
Building Capacity
Improving and Innovating
Supporting Individuals and
Families
Strategic Plan 2012 - 2015Strategic Themes
Vocational Rehabilitation and Employability
Children and Young People’s Services
Social & Community Networking
Living Options
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• Northern Ireland (NI) has one of the highest incidences of disability in the UK
• Overall 21% of adults were found to have a disability but this rises from 5% for 16-25 year group; 11% 26-44 year groups and 23% 45-59 year group.
• Nearly two-thirds (64%) of working age disabled people in Northern Ireland are economically inactive, which is 3 times the rate for non-disabled people and much higher than for the UK as a whole where 44% of disabled people of working age are economically inactive.
• 42% of disabled people of working age had no qualifications compared to 16% without a disability.
Disability in Northern IrelandContext
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SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NETWORKING
These programmes are focused on encouraging peer support and help people with disabilities to have a voice, develop interests and hobbies, learn new skills, volunteer and build and maintain new friendships.
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Cedar’s Social and Community Networking Service provide a number of programmes across Northern Ireland which support people with disabilities to become more actively involved within their community.
Social & Community NetworkingService Model
Assessment/Planning
• Registration• Person centred
goals/outcomes• Personal action plan• Star Outcomes
Assessment/ Distance Travelled
Intervention
• Inclusive community based activities
• Peer support• Travel buddies• User led social
networks• Personal supports• Disability Awareness• Personal
development
Outcomes
• Enhanced social inclusion• Independently managed
and sustainable social networks
• Long term and on-going peer support
• Increased personal capacity/resilience
• Increased levels of physical activity
• Improved mental health and wellbeing
Social & Community Networking
Participant Pathway
Support participants to engage with their local community.
Encourage participants to develop new interests, learn new skills, make and maintain new friendships. .
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Challenge the negative and promote the positive aspects of disability in our community.
Support participants to be more self-confident, empowered and independent.
Encourage peer support and the establishment of independent user led networks that will offer sustainable opportunities for social inclusion.
Social & Community NetworkingAims & Objectives
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RESILIENCE
SOCIAL INCLUSIONEMPOWERED FRIENDSHIPS
USER LEDPEER SUPPORT
CONFIDENCE ACTIVE CITIZENFUN
Social & Community NetworkingOutcomes
INDEPENDENCE
Added Value Projects
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Added Value Projects
Travel Buddy
Peer Support
On Yer Bike
Game On
Cedar’s User Forum aims to be the voice of service-users and is focused on making a positive difference to the lives of people with a disability.
There are currently 6 local groups which offers service users the opportunity to get involved and “Have their Say” regardless of where they live.
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The Forum empowers people with disabilities to influence and inform services that support them to participate in all aspects of community life.
Social & Community NetworkingUser Representation
Individual Participants
• Action planning and review
• Star Outcomes/ Distance Travelled
• Enhanced levels of social inclusion/
activity levels
• Greater resilience, autonomy and independence
Service Delivery
• Service user, stakeholder and staff feedback
• Empowering users to inform and influence service provision internally and externally
• Development of new and innovative projects
Strategic Direction
• External service evaluation
• Relevance to statutory commissioning priorities (Physical and Sensory Disability Strategy)
• Commissioning of new social and community networking services
Social & Community Networking
Measuring Improvement
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THANK YOU
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