Life Skills Development
At Rays of sunshine we will engage and work with you to understand your goals and build a plan to improve your daily living skills to build your confidence and independence.
To assist you on managing these challenges, we offer a range of training and development activities, aimed at building your capacity to manage day‐to‐day life, through the development of your knowledge, skills and networks of support.
General Life Skills Development
We appreciate and understand the level of complexity faced by people with a disability when tackling everyday tasks and activities. In order to assist overcoming these difficulties we can provide training and development across a range of life skills, including:
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Personal hygiene: such as showering, toileting and personal care
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Nutrition: such as shopping for groceries and planning for and preparing a healthy meal
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Maintaining cleanliness in your home: such as housework, laundering of clothes and addressing maintenance issues or repairs
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Communicating with service providers and support networks
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Transport and travel: such as planning your journey, accessing public transport and trouble‐shooting issues.
Individual life and personal
skills development
We understand the unique challenges faced by people with a disability in relation to personal and interpersonal skills.
Furthermore, we recognise the challenges faced by the parents, family members and carers to manage issues relating to social skills, sexuality, interpersonal relationships, regulation of emotions and personal safety.
We provide services to assist you and your families or carers to overcome these issues as they arise. We will also implement strategies that will increase your potential to manage these issues into the future.
Numeracy, literacy and financial management skills development
Our experienced staff will work with you to develop your skills and independence to manage your finances, which will include managing a bank account and creating a budget.
By working to improve your numeracy and literacy, we can also improve your skills for communication.
Training for parents and carers
We understand that being a parent or carer is a full‐time and very high pressured job, that will result in significant demands on an individual’s time, energy and resources. At Rays of sunshine we will work with parents and carers to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding required to manage both their day‐to‐day realities and longer-term situations.
We will also work with parents to manage episodic issues including transitions into, between and out of the family home into independent or group‐based living environments.