The Woodford Park Project
First opened in April 2008, the Woodford Park Project has been instrumental in facilitating the opportunity for people with learning disabilities, who have been long stay patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital, to move to a community placement.
The project has been designed and developed to provide accommodation and support services for up to six people with learning disabilities who exhibit extreme or challenging behaviours. The project consists of two semi-detached bungalows, each of which, have three single bedrooms. The properties have been extensively adapted to provide the appropriate therapeutic environment. We have used assistive technologies to promote safety, whilst ensuring that the environment remains homely and any adaptations have been as unobtrusive as possible.
With a highly trained and educated team of staff, we are tooled with the skills necessary to manage the most complex of support needs and behaviours. Our experience of ritualistic behaviour management and autism is extensive and we are very familiar with programmes such as TEACCH. Each member of staff is trained in the use of PROACT SCIP-UKŪ which offers workers the skills to use proactive strategies when working with people who exhibit challenging behaviour, whilst being assured that they have the ability to use the least restrictive physical intervention, should the need for a reactive strategy arise.
The complexity of the work at Woodford Park requires the joint working of a large multi-disciplinary network. We work particularly closely with the Northern Trust Social Work Department and the Adult Challenging Behaviour Service, forming%20400.jpeg)
approaches and methods of intervention aimed at reducing frequency and severity of challenging behaviours thus promoting the opportunity for our service users to avail of the true benefits of community living.
For more information on our service provision at the Woodford Park Project, please do not hesitate to contact Attracta, our Team Leader. You can get in touch with Attracta using the ‘Contact Us’ link on the left.
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