Facilitating Great Outcomes
Focusing on Outcomes
Our outcomes-focused support ensures that the support we deliver is person-centred, meets the unique and changing needs of each individual, promotes independence and wellbeing, and supports them to develop the skills needed to achieve their goals.
At Bright Futures, we start with the end in sight. Our wraparound services including both Residential Care for both Children and Adults, alongside our Education offering, ensures continuity for individuals with autism, learning disabilities and associated complex needs.
We are ambitious for the people we support and educate. Our aim is to empower, facilitate learning, and promote independence. We focus on what matters to the people we support and their families. We work in partnership with others to plan for the journey ahead, whatever that may look like. We design activities and provide bespoke, targeted support, to help achieve their identified outcomes.
Each person’s journey with us will look different, however there are clear stages that are common to everyone:
Person-Centred Planning
Skills Development
Preparing for Adulthood
Person-Centred Planning
We want the people we support and educate to learn the skills that they need to achieve their long-term aspirations and live the life they choose – setting them up for a successful life with Bright Futures and beyond.
Our emphasis is on empowerment and the development of skills rather than activities and doing to/for the person.
We use Person-Centred Planning to ensure that a person’s needs views and feelings are at the centre of their care and support. Co-producing plans with individuals and those closest to them.
Skills Development
In order to achieve great outcomes, we believe that people need to develop and maintain skills in core areas.
We have identified a Core Skills Kit to bring these to life and utilise our specialist teams including Active Support, Positive Behaviour Support and Therapy Services to make a real difference and support individuals to develop skills for life.
Our Outcomes Framework is structured around the well-known Preparing for Adulthood Pathways designed by the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) funded by the Department of Education.
This framework ensures that we focus our care and support on facilitating great outcomes in these four areas:
- Employment
- Independent Living
- Friends, Relationships and Community
- Good Health
Preparing for Adulthood
By using the Person-Centred Planning and Skills Development frameworks, we can continue to work alongside the people we support and educate to ensure that we are supporting individuals to develop the skills that are most important to them in achieving both their short and longer-term aspirations and goals.
Our goal is to support each individual to thrive, no matter what that looks like for them. Ongoing assessments of care and support plans ensure that the relevance and appropriateness of individuals goals and outcomes are realistic and achievable.
We know that the quality of care and education we provide means that people are supported to want to move on from Bright Futures. Whether that be closer to home, onto more stepped down services like supported living, back into mainstream school or college settings – the possibilities are endless. Whatever that journey looks like, our care and education services are here to make that happen.
