Windmill Therapeutic Training Unit, Wexford. Ireland

The Unit is located in Wexford Town and its aims and goals is to prepare adults with learning and behavioural difficulties to take on board challenges of the modern world and to promote confidence and awareness, to focus on the whole person, to maximise their full potential and to promote personal and practical skills.

The focus is on ABILITY and not DISABILITY and aims to attain an inner peace and self discipline, enabling the trainees to develop as a whole person in their own right through participation and involvement in a wide range of modules and work related skills in an environment which incorporates both therapy and training with a professional, committed and dedicated team of workers. The unit is currently meeting the needs of between 30/35 trainees from Wexford and surrounding areas, with additional teachers, tutors, trainers, core staff and ancillary workers making a total utilisation of 60 for this Service.

The programme embraces such areas as Literacy, Remedial, Communications, Relationships, Group and Project work, Visual Aids, Current Affairs and a wide range of Craft and Work related skills, as well as tapping on the resources of the wider community such as Drama, Role-Play, Swimming and Physical Education. We are particularly delighted about the way in which these activities have been linked with the resources in the wider community realising that it is an essential part of Human Growth and Development for our trainees to be put in touch with their environment.

Windmill is a bona fide charity, Registration No. 9500 Sponsored and Funded by POBAL, HSE and the Community