Description of the service

Who uses the services?

The service is used by several kinds of clients

How many people use the service?

17

Did your service users previously live in an institution or other large establishment?

They have various backgrounds. Some are still living at home in rural communities (45%). 55% live in community houses (most for last 5 years), previous this 55% lived in institutions

Description of good practice

Proactive projects and initiatives promoting positive links between service users and community facilities.

At Castleview Resources we have networked with the local community through the following:

1. A local ladies morning arts group uses one of our rooms during the week for their weekly meetings (two of our service users join in this group);
2. We do the following volunteer work:
   • Local Apostolic - church cleaning society (a group completes assigned duties with this group x 1 every week);
   • Local Tidy Towns – March to June (twice a week a group joins local community personnel to try to clean up our neighbourhood);
   • Local Meals on Wheels (we are the reserved driver to deliver meals to old folks on two separate days every week – service users collect, pack and unload the dinners at each house);
   • We attend Community Development meetings that occur locally (we are in constant contact with local community development officer). We have completed many consultations re: What our needs are.

Name of Organisation: St. Anne’s Service
Name of Service (if different): Castleview Resources
Address: c/o Castleview Resources, Maltings, Birr, Co. Offaly – Ireland
Telephone: 00353-87-6312676
Email: castleviewresources@iol.free

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