I was delighted to attend the launch by Minister Kathleen Lynch of "The Hub" in Drogheda today. Run by Praxix Care on behalf of the HSE the "Hub" provides individualised programmes of day activity that promote social inclusion and service use choice and control to young adults with autism, intellectual disability or complex needs in the Greater Drogheda area. The aim of the Hub is to enable school leavers with complex needs to live within a safe and nuturing community environment which promotes options and choices, underpinned by a person-centred, needs led approach.
The Hub is a partnership between Praxis Care, HSE Louth Disability Services, the Genio Trust and Autism Support Louth and Meath and ABACUS School for Children with Autism, Drogheda.
The first participants started receiving support in May 2013. Parent Annemarie Durnin spoke of the impact of this new initiative on her son. "My son is so happy with his new life as a young adult. He now has a very active life doing activities in which he is interested and his horizons are widening all the time. we had been so terrified about what would happen to him after school and are now so relieved and pleased. It's a very exciting chapter in the lives of these young people with complex needs".
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