Collective Continuity
Our ethos is built on evidence-based practices and approaches that have been proven to have a positive impact on the lives of young people and adults with autism, mental health conditions and learning disabilities. Our ethos supports their progression to more independent lives.
Our ethos is built on three core areas:
Health & Wellbeing | Community & Social Inclusion | Education
These areas underpin the delivery of care that our residents receive each and every day. From our support staff working directly with our residents and home management teams to our group management teams, each action and decision is influenced by evidence from one or more of these areas.
Everything we do, every intervention, every piece of work is done together. We make things happen. But throughout it all, we are ‘with’, and never ‘for’.
Each person that we care for is different in their own way, but all with the same potential to lead better lives.
We give opportunities to people to be the best they can be. A chance to live a life they choose and a place in society that they want. We ask them how they want to live and what they want to do. We encourage them to take positive risks. Then we provide guidance, adaptive skills and care. Constant, continuous, collective care.
The rest comes from them.
Delivery of Care
Health & wellbeing | Community & Social inclusion | education
Outstanding care delivery doesn’t come with a ‘one size fits all’ template. Our foundations may lie in compliance, processes and regulations but ultimately, we work with humans and we are all individually unique. For this reason, each person who moves into a Cascade home has a care package designed just for them with the view to improve their adaptive skills and increase their quality of life.
Adaptive Skills
Most people arrive here with a need to develop their daily living skills.
That’s why, as part of our transition process, we assess their adaptive skills which goes on to form part of their individualised support plans.
These are the everyday skills needed to function, interact with others, and effectively take care of oneself. Such adaptive skills are essential to progression and for some into independent living. Everyone is encouraged and motivated to improve.
That’s why we address:
Communication Skills
Leisure Skills
Community Use
Self Direction
Employment
Health and Safety
Literacy & Numeracy Skills
Social Skills
Our Values
Values provide the foundation for what Cascade’s cares about most. At the heart of our service are our people, supported by our care teams.
Our values provide those teams with guiding principles and expectations on how we want care to be delivered every single day.
Our Approach
Education
Education is at the heart of the Cascade philosophy; Our people are encouraged to engage in a range of programmes, qualifications and development courses using the ASDAN programme.
Courses range from ‘Money Management’ to ‘Independent Living’ and all work towards developing life skills and achieving personalised goals.
PBS
Positive behavioural support (PBS) is about increasing personal skills, and enhancing a place within the community, whilst reducing the need for restrictive interventions.
Wherever possible, we will work collaboratively on PBS care plans to ensure a thorough assessment of each person’s particular needs, using the appropriate Outcome Star, often integrating social stories.
We believe in providing care which is appropriate to individual needs. Each person plays an integral role in planning and implementing their own care, being encouraged to review and evaluate their progress on a regular basis. This process will enable them to plan their journey towards independent living at a pace that suits them.
We achieve this through the nationally-recognised Outcomes Star method. This both measures and supports progress towards self-reliance and other goals. The stars are designed to be completed together as an integral part of keywork. All versions consist of a number of scales making it possible to plot, measure and prove progress on the journey.