PROFESSIONALS - OUTCOMES & MEASURES
The Fairway Project has identified a number of outcomes for young people with disabilities who have been involved in the project:
- Increased confidence, self-esteem, expectation and motivation
- Increased awareness of rights and responsibilities
- Increased confidence that they have autonomy in their lives
- Increased community involvement and better social lives
- A wider network of friends, with disabilities and without
- Development of a Circle of friends that can support them to achieve their ambitions
- More control over their future
- Employment paid and vocational
- A home of their own
- Appropriate mainstream college courses/further education/training
- Access to a unique future because their aspirations and dreams are unique
These outcomes have been identified through the evaluation process, questionnaires, review meetings, advisory groups, initiation & completion of action plans and other ongoing evaluation tools.
One of the most important outcomes of the project has been the ongoing social development of our young adults – their interaction within the community, their ever-increasing communication skills, and their belief in their own abilities and self-worth.
Fairway has also identified proven benefits to the Peer mentor volunteers working with our young adults. These include:
- Potential to develop career skills, and career opportunities
- A sense of citizenship and achievement
- Social opportunities
- Life Experience
- Opportunity to undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award & other youth achievement awards
- A chance to go out with their friends for free
- Opportunity to give something back to their community
- Increased self-esteem
- Opportunity to undertake a Millennium Volunteer award
- An opportunity to have someone who has a disability to be their friend
- An opportunity to realise the issues that young people with disabilities experience
