The Orchards is a key component of Nugent Community Choices, offering specialist supported living services for adults with a range of needs including physical and learning disabilities, autism and mental health.
Why The Orchards?
Our community support focuses on identifying and building upon the strengths, abilities, and resources that those we support already have.
It is a positive, empowering approach that promotes self-determination and resilience. Below we have outlined key aspects of the strengths-based support we provide.
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Facilities
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4 x 6-bedded homes with a hub
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Kitchen facilities
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Pleasant outdoor areas
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Close to amenities
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Supported living
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Lounge areas
- Empowerment: Those we support are encouraged to take control of their lives, make decisions, and contribute to the community in meaningful ways. The focus is on what individuals can do rather than on what they lack or need help with.
- Identifying strengths: Our support team work with individuals to recognise their existing skills, talents, and resources, rather than solely focusing on deficits or challenges. This could include personal qualities like resilience, creativity, or leadership skills.
- Building capacity: Rather than providing ongoing external support, strengths-based approaches seek to build the capacity of individuals and communities to solve their own problems and support each other. This could include community groups, education, peer support programs, or skills-building workshops.
- Creating positive social connections: Strengths-based support in the community encourages the creation of networks where individuals can share resources, provide mutual aid, and support one another in ways that leverage everyone’s strengths.
- Resilience building: The approach aims to help individuals and communities build resilience, enabling them to cope with adversity more effectively. This is achieved through fostering a growth mind-set, reinforcing positive coping strategies, and supporting long-term wellbeing.
- Cultural sensitivity: Strengths-based support is often culturally sensitive, recognising the unique strengths that come from different cultural backgrounds. Communities are encouraged to embrace diversity and build on the collective knowledge, traditions, and practices that exist within them.
- Focus on solutions: Instead of focusing on problems or barriers, strengths-based approaches prioritise finding solutions that utilise existing resources. This mind-set encourages creative problem-solving and a focus on what is possible rather than what is difficult.
- Sustainability: The goal is to provide support that leads to sustainable change. Community members are supported in building long-term systems and networks that can continue to thrive independently, reducing reliance on external assistance over time.
Overall, strengths-based support is about shifting the narrative to celebrating what individuals and communities can do, which fosters a more positive, resilient, and self-sustaining environment.
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