Optimising Quality of Life through Peer support groups, via, Peer Knowledge, Support, Education and Training
Mission Statement:
ADAPT Gateway will support, train and educate disabled individuals, leading to more fulfilled lives. Drawing on considerable insight and knowledge from the lived experience, we will enable individuals to change their personal perspectives and help them to realise their full personal and societal potential.
Though originally developed with Spinal cord injury (SCI) at its heart we have broadened our approach and initial efforts will now focus on individuals who use a wheelchair in their daily lives. Support will also be given to agency, domestic care providers, and family and friends, as life-changing illness affects all dimensions of a person’s life, extending to their support systems. We will strive to achieve real change in inequality and accessibility, as well as independent living, such as adaptations to housing.
We welcome and support any member of the public, accommodating the needs of children, adults and military veterans. We are proactive in helping individuals adopt a healthier lifestyle, leading to a more meaningful existence. Ultimately, we will help individuals extend longevity and improve their overall quality of life both mentally and physically, with peer-to-peer support being at the core of what we do.
As a new charity for the moment, we are concentrating our efforts in Wales, however, we are more than happy to take inquiries from spinal cord injury and wheelchair users from anywhere and will endeavour to help in whatever way we can.
Our Aim
Peer Support is at the centre of ADAPT Gateway’s ethos. By designing evidence-led interventions centred around peer-support we aim to develop self-efficacy, and thus improve quality of life for our disabled service users and their families. Our goal is to allow lived experience and peer support to provide a gateway to confidence, better health outcomes and a fulfilled life for our service users. While our original focus will be around people living with Spinal cord Injury (SCI) and other wheelchair users, we aim to grow our support to reach people with other chronic conditions. A key area of our project is supporting disabled people with their mental health.
We have educational programmes for colleges and universities designed to support staff and learners to foster a culture of awareness and inclusion, and Disability Awareness and Inclusive Service courses targeted at business. ADAPT Gateway also specialise in supporting Public Sector Bodies in all areas of disabled equality, especially Public Sector Equality Duty. Alongside training focused on equality and inclusion, we offer training packages aimed at health professionals, centered around the prevention of secondary health-related issues. Our training has been developed by disabled experts with proven professional track records and will be delivered by skilled disabled trainers. Lived experience is at the heart of all ADAPT Gateway’s training and educational practice.
Successful change is created based on relevant research. There is, however, often a disconnect between the academic institutions undertaking research, and the communities this research goes on to affect. ADAPT Gateway intends to bridge this gap for effective community-based change, by providing real-world insight and knowledge. Once again our team is composed of researchers either living with an impairment themselves or with a background in chronic health problems. It is our hope to engage in pragmatic and focused research that leads to real-world progress for the disabled community, founded on a model of good practice and solid evidence-based. Phases of research will be rolled out in future.
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