Rehab Services in Offaly

In Offaly, Rehab provides services to close to 300 people with disabilities from throughout the county.

Rehab is a leading non-governmental organisation which works towards a world where every person has the opportunity to achieve their potential. Rehab provides high-quality health and social care, training and education, and rehabilitation, employment and commercial services in Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, the Netherlands and Poland. The people who currently use Rehab services include young people and adults with physical, sensory and intellectual disabilities, people with mental health difficulties, people with autism and people with an acquired brain injury. A range of essential services is also provided to older people, carers and others who are marginalised. Every year, more than 50,000 people and their families benefit from the supports provided by Rehab in over 250 locations.

In partnership with the Health Service Executive (HSE), RehabCare provides a range of high-quality person-centred services. In Offaly, RehabCare has a resource centre located at Tanyard which caters for 55 adults. The resource centre runs many programmes in IT, arts, crafts, cookery and independent living skills. There are also residential services, Atlas Rehabilitative training, a children's autism outreach service and a regional respite service catering for 70 people with autism who are predominantly children. A high support Autism Day Service at Kilcruttin caters for eight adults.

National Learning Network provides training funded by FÁS and the HSE for persons out of work through accident, illness, or disability. Every year, the centre at Tanyard in Tullamore caters for over 160 learners and provides the vocational programmes Employer Based Training, Transitions and Fresh Start, and the rehabilitative programme, Access.

April 2012