Structured Activity Programmes

For service users stepping down to supported living from secure hospital or prison, our structured activity programmes help them develop the life skills they will need for move-on, improve their physical fitness and mental well-being and encourage involvement in the wider community.

For service users assessed as able to work, we assist in job-seeking, monitoring and mentoring work attendance and performance and liaise with employers to ensure that appropriate work-based training is given.

Where a service user is assessed as needing employability skills, we arrange appropriate vocational training at a local college or with specialist training providers and also arrange part-time or voluntary work

Structured activities in our homes include cooking, gardening, managing personal finances and personal hygiene. All service users must achieve reasonable self-sufficiency in the kitchen before move-on and our homes organise regular days when service users plan meals, do the necessary shopping and prepare the food.

Service users who lack cooking skills or experience of working in a kitchen are trained in food preparation, hygiene and safety and use of appliances.

Our homes all have gardens where service users grow fruit and vegetables for use in the kitchen and take part in therapeutic horticultural sessions. Through planning for planting and keeping the garden tidy, they acquire organisational and forward planning, contributing to rehabilitation and recovery.

Counselling is provided both internally and externally. Therapies, determined by individual need, include drug rehabilitation programmes; talking therapies and creative arts activities.

For more information about Cascade Care services or to make a referral, please contact us. You can also make referrals online.