TRIO

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TRIO
Offering quality opportunities in the community
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What is TRIO?

• Community Based Day Service for Older people in
  Wrexham
• Service developed at the end of the 1980s by
  Clwyd
• Provides a Family Based service supported by
  project workers in the family home for three
  individuals each day
• Available up to 3 days per week

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Service Aim

• Is to provide a quality person centred community
  based service
• Aim was/is to provide a dispersed model of
  service in the Rural Fringe
• Move away from what was perceived as
  institutional centralised day centre provision
• Initial funding from Welsh Office to develop a
  new service
• Initially developed to provide a service to
  people with sensory impairment(s)
• Service caters for a range of needs for Older
  People in particular people with mental health
  needs e.g. depression, memory issues, early onset
  dementia

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Community Networks

• Ethos of service was/is to strengthen existing
  community networks
• To develop voluntary support
• Family based support assists in building on
  family networks

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Current Service

• 4 Projects 36 places
• Equivalent of 2 projects vacant
• Adult Placement Scheme development

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Best Value

• Cost effective service
• 1-3 staffing ratio
• Length of service day is longer than average Day
  Centre
• Home from Home environment
• Flexible Person Centred service planning

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What have we learned
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What works?

• Older people appear to be more accepting of a
  discreet service
• Able to support Older People with a range of
  needs
• Service is able to build and develop individual
  confidence and develop and maintain a range of
  skills
• Reduce social isolation
• Strengthens relationships between service users
  and the family
• Enabled staff to manage a work life balance

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What presents a challenge?

• Shift in work force and labour markets over 20
  years i.e. low unemployment and women in
  employment outside of the home is presenting a
  challenge with recruitment
• Current staff work life balanced needs have
  changed over time and now seek new challenges in
  other areas of service
• Compatibility of service users needs requires
  careful consideration
• Managing gaps in provision e.g. sickness,
  holidays in a small service

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What would we do differently?

• Develop services on a tighter Locality basis
• Develop within an Adult Placement Model to meet a
  broader range of needs i.e. Overnight/Weekend
  provision