Welcome To The Goldcrest House Blog

Whether you’re a family member or friend of a resident, or you’re a social or healthcare professional you’ll find lots of great information and interesting stories her on the Goldcrest House blog.

We will be publishing write-ups of all the great activities our resident’s get involved in both here at the home and in the wider community. Plus, we’d like this blog to become a useful source of information for you on the topics of Autism and Learning Difficulties so we’ll be publishing news and interesting articles about them.

The blog is for the use of everyone in the Goldcrest community so if you have any thoughts or opinions about what we publish please use the comments section to tell us. We’d love to hear from you. Also if you have anything you’d like to contribute to the blog, whether it’s tips, a useful resource or just your own personal story, please contact us.

We look forward to hearing from you and hope you enjoy the blog.

The Team at Goldcrest

 


GOLDCREST CREATE A SOOTHING ENVIRONMENT

Goldcrest house create a soothing environment with the development of a very special multi-sensory room to create a haven where service users can relax.

GOLDCREST CREATE A SOOTHING ENVIRONMENTThe specially designed room offers a multi-sensory experience with soothing lighting, sounds and textures proven to ease anxiety, encourage communication, and generally stimulate the senses.

Ralph Parish, manager at Goldcrest says: “The new room is a place where any individual at Goldcrest House, service user or staff, can go and relax. It shuts out the noise or stimulus from everyday activities within their environment, and replaces it with an experience of lighting and music that can be modified to suit their needs. It really is a nice place to go to get away from it all.

“Some of our service users go to have fun with the lighting, others go to listen to music, it can be an exciting place or a relaxing place, but importantly it’s there for each and every individual to use as they wish.”

Based on Boothferry Road Goldcrest House is a centre of excellence dedicated to addressing the individual needs of adults over 18 affected by Autistic Spectrum Disorder and learning difficulties. It provides residential care, supported living, long and short term respite care, day services and outreach to meet the varied needs of those who access the service 52 weeks a year; its aim is to be the UK’s quality service of choice.


GOLDCREST HOUSE MAKE IT HAPPEN

Goldcrest House make it happen by developing person-centred activity plans via a monthly consultation called ‘You said we did’.

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The consultation with service users encourages open communication that discusses each and every individuals’ thoughts and wishes about how they would like to engage and participate with the wider community and their friends.

During one consultation the wish to visit York Railways Museum and a trip to Flamingo Land was requested. A visit to America was also discussed, which unfortunately couldn’t happen, but not deterred the next best thing, an American themed evening held at the house.

Ralph Parish, registered manager at Goldcrest House says: “We have always consulted with our service users to understand and learn of their individual needs. However in this instance we have made the consultation part a fun group activity. It’s one of the highlights in our monthly calendar and is thoroughly embraced by all service users eager to discuss their thoughts.”

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Based on Boothferry Road Goldcrest House is a centre of excellence dedicated to addressing the individual needs of adults over 18 affected by Autistic Spectrum Disorder and learning difficulties. It provides residential care, supported living, long and short term respite care, day services and outreach to meet the varied needs of those who access the service 52 weeks a year; its aim is to be the UK’s quality service of choice.


VOLUNTEER RECOGNISED FOR COMMITMENT

Celebrating a very special rite of passage is the Goole gardening service charity, The Green Team, as it awards an official charity T-shirt to Goldcrest House volunteer Chris Coggins in recognition of his dedication and commitment to the charity.

VOLUNTEER RECOGNISED FOR COMMITMENT

Green Team volunteer William Eshelby, (right), with dedicated volunteer Chris Coggins (left) sharing a happy moment.

Wearing the uniform of the charity, Chris very much looks the part as he attends to gardening maintenance in Goole and the surrounding area to maintain the gardens of the elderly and disabled who are unable to do so themselves.

As part of a bespoke programme of personal development, created by Chris’s caring team at Goldcrest House, he now volunteers with The Green Team to advance his horticulture skills and practices via meaningful and structured work experience.

Cheryl Price, Volunteer Lead at The Green Team says: “We’re all really proud of Chris and the work he does. We wanted to show Chris how we are as dedicated to him as he is to us and thought wearing our uniform would provide him with an extra boost of confidence and certainty that he is part of The Team.”

Ralph Parish, registered manager at Goldcrest House says: “We’re all very proud of Chris and happy to see how a focus on individual needs can enable individuals such as Chris take part and become a valued member of this team.”

The Green Team is a registered charity offering volunteering opportunities to local people who then provide a low cost gardening service to older and disabled people living in Goole and the surrounding area.

The Green Team has recently secured funding to develop a wholly owned Community Interest Company and ‘volunteer journey’ project designed to train and prepare individuals for the job market, leading to the opportunity to apply for short term, paid employment working for the charity’s new commercial gardening service.


CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT RECOGNISES TEAM PLAYER

Goldcrest House service user Peter Holt is recognised by his peers as “Classmate of the Year” during an end of year vote at Goole College.Goldcrest House

Having recently completed a part-time entry level Skills for Further Learning and Employment the final day saw classmates vote on who they thought deserved recognition for their contribution to the class. Peter came out on top with the most votes based on his positive attitude to learning and his fellow classmates.

Peter Holt says: “I’m very happy to receive this recognition. I saw college as a chance to further my qualifications, to gain a better job in the future, and to develop new skills and meet new friends. I’ve now achieved much of what I set out to do.”

Danielle Ripley, co-ordinator for training, quality assurance, service user reviews & clinical wellbeing says: “Our long-term care plans are ultimately about enablement. Peter wanted to go to college to further his Maths and English skills as well as make new friends, we were keen to support Peter with his decision and make it happen for him. He has flourished during his time at the Goole College and the award is very deserved.”

Developing and maintaining relationships, learning new skills, and acquiring new knowledge are all part of the Goldcrest House mission to promote normalization and inclusion.


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