Day projects

Each of our Communities offers a number of Day Projects that include workshops and life skills for our core members.

L’Arche Ireland provides Day project opportunities to adults with an intellectual disability in our Cork and Kilkenny Communities and are open Monday to Friday. Each Day project offers Core Members who access the service a range of opportunities.

The Day project services including outreach and social enterprise opportunities work in line with New Direction standards. The HSE New Directions policy governs how Day Service supports for adults living with disabilities, must be individualised, and focused on achieving outcomes. In this way, L’Arche through community-based Day projects can help those with a disability to embrace the life they want to live, fulfil potential, and feel connected and integrated within their own community.

L’Arche Day project services have adopted a person-centred approach which supports the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care and supports to people with different abilities. We believe that this approach involves good leadership, skilled and experienced staff, and the effective management of resources. Our Day projects provide people with access to a range of supports and activities in both a one- to-one basis and in a group environment.

Activities vary from Day project to Day Project depending on the interests of the people who attend each service. Programme examples include; art and crafts, IT, drama, horticulture, leisure activities, cookery, independent living skills, job skills, sports, dancing, group excursions and much more.