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Are you or someone you know struggling with mobility or need additional care and support to live independently? The Independent Living Centre is here to assist. It’s a partnership between ourselves and Telford & Wrekin CVS (Council for Voluntary Service). It’s packed full of valuable information and guidance for anyone looking to enhance their independence at home or in the community. When you visit the centre, have a go and try out gadgets, and support equipment, suited to your needs. Unlike a typical office, the entire centre is designed to replicate a home environment. This way, you can experience first-hand how care, and support equipment, fit into familiar surroundings. Our friendly team welcomes you with a cup of tea and a chat to understand your challenges at home. Then together, we work towards finding practical solutions that suit both you and your living space. At the Independent Living Centre, you’ll have access to dedicated volunteers, known as ‘experts by experience’, who are happy to lend a hand. Why not drop by the Independent Living Centre and explore the range of equipment available. Find out how you could make your daily life easier, we’ll be more than happy to guide you through the options to suit your needs. Enhance your independent living
Live Well Telford ( livewell.telford.gov.uk) is an all age community directory. It has many useful links to help you quickly find services in the borough including: • things to do for children and families • community venues for hire • childminders • housing services • carer’s support • social care services and many others. You can search by age range, area, service types and other criteria to find the right match of what you are looking for.
livewell.telford.gov.uk Give it a try?
Drop-in sessions: At the centre there are different sessions throughout the week for those with particular needs (such as Autism Hub, Learning Disability Hub, Sensory Impairment and many others listed on the centre’s webpage), no appointment needed. Independent Living Centre 3A Hazeldine House, Telford Town Centre, Telford, TF3 4JL
Don’t miss out on help that’s out there. The Carer’s Well-being Guide is a one-stop guide with useful information, advice and contacts to support you as a carer: • benefits and financial support schemes; • community support services; • well-being advice; • getting out and about in the borough; • and much more. Are you a carer or know someone who is?
MOBILE-ALT Telephone: 01952 457181 MOBILE-ALT Text SMS: 07537453177 Opening times:
10am-5pm weekdays, Thursday until 6pm telford.gov.uk/independentliving Virtual house: On the website you can navigate through a Virtual House to see how a range of gadgets look inside a home and where you can purchase them.
Download the guide: telford.gov.uk/carerswellbeing
Help improve and develop adult social care services
Would you like to play a part in further improving and developing services in the borough? Join council leaders, to discuss your experiences and views on adult social care at monthly board meetings. If you can’t make it, you can still have a say by emailing ✉ makingitreal@telford.gov.uk . Sarah, one of the members says: “Making It Real looks at how things are in adult social care and tries to improve people’s future. “We’ve already done a lot of work around direct payments, making it easier to access fund should they need to. “I would encourage anyone eligible to join. You get to see how things in social care work and it is rewarding to know you can make a difference.”
Councillor Paul Watling Telford & Wrekin Council’s Cabinet Member for adult social care and health systems “Support must be built up around a person’s strengths, their own networks of support and greater use made of resources available in the local community.” “Making It Real is a framework or guide that sets out what good, person-focused care and support should look like from the point of view of individuals with lived experience. “It recognises that people want a life, not just a service and that conversations with people should be based on what matters most to them.
Join the Making It Real meetings
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