The mission
of the Day Services is to “empower the service user to acquire skills and
abilities that would best help him/her achieve the ability to use
self-determination, and benefit from inclusion in the community, whilst enjoying
and capitalising on an enabling environment centered on and around the service
user needs".
The Day Services were passed on to Aġenzija Sapport in 2007 and currently
there are twelve Day Centres for Persons with Disability in Malta and Gozo. The aim
is to help persons with
disability to continue developing their potential through
different types of activities, and to provide support to their families so that
such persons can continue living within the community without being socially excluded or
institutionalised. The Day Services also aim to enhance each service users’
ability in regards to independent living skills and thus empowering them to
live as independently as possible and enhance employability skills to the
maximum of the service users’ potential.
The
objectives of the service are reached by:
providing core skilled programmes such as basic skills towards
independent living supported by other skills that enhance quality of life;
developing programmes which enable service users to engage in as many
activities as possible within the community, both in occupational nature and
leisure activities;
carrying out programmes of physical and psychological well-being as well
as activities that enhance the service users' educational, social communication,
cultural and leisure abilities.
The Day
Services support service users to establish links with other individuals, and
assist them to benefit from other resources that already exist within the
community. The service users spend their time at the Day Centres by actively
participating in a variety of activities which aim to enhance their overall
abilities and to reach the maximum of their individual potential. Assisted by
the supporting staff, the service users participate in activities such as card-making,
pottery and food preparation. Service users also have the opportunity to engage
in music, arts, drama, needlework, woodwork, animal husbandry, computer skills
and literacy programmes. Events are organised from time to time so that the
service users share and enhance their various skills, whilst empowering them to
interact with other service users from different Centres.
The service users also
benefit from the services of Speech Language Pathologists and Adult Educators.