Chances and Choices in Worcestershire

Day Opportunities for Adults with Learning Disabilities

What are Chances and Choices in Worcestershire?

They are:

One of a number of ways of supporting people with learning disabilities to:

• Have more control in their lives
• Continue to develop skills
• Do things that they enjoy
• Meet friends

Who are Chances and Choices for?

People with a learning disability over 18, especially those who live with family carers and who have high support needs.

What do Chances and Choices do?

• Listen to people with learning disabilities
• Help people to do some of the things which are important to them
• Help people to do things in their local area and other places
• Help others to welcome and accept people with learning disabilities
• Work together with people with learning disabilities and carers to provide a good quality service across the county
• Give families a break

Where should Chances and Choices be?

• Near to where you live
• Sharing with other people who do not have disabilities
• Some will be special buildings
• Some will be in other places

Who can provide Chances and Choices?

• Learning disability services
• Voluntary organisations
• Private organisations
• Charitable Trusts
• Lots of others

What Chances and Choices cannot do:

• We cannot give people paid work
• We cannot provide transport for everyone
• We cannot provide holidays
• We cannot provide a five day a week service for everyone
• We cannot treat everyone the same. This is because some people will need more help than others.

Other people can help with things like:

• Finding paid or unpaid work
• Training for work
• Learning new skills
• Finding money to pay for support such as Direct payments or the Independent Living Fund
• Travel
• Holidays

What we want to do more of:

• Listen to people with learning disabilities and help them to do what is important to them
• Help people with learning disabilities to have more choices
• Help people to keep friends and make more
• Be flexible – provide support during the evenings and weekends
• Listen to family carers and officer support
• Move away from supporting people in large buildings
• Work with others who offer support
• Support people to do things out and about
• Respect and support people's religious and cultural needs

For further information about support for Adults with Learning Disabilities contact 0845 607 2000

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