About us
After the restoration of Lithuania’s independence, Vilnius City council was one of the first in the country to listen to the problems of families raising children with intellectual disabilities and in 1992 set up and opened the Day Centre for people with intellectual disabilities to create a democratic city community.
Day Centre „ Šviesa“ was established by Vilnius City council and is a day social care institution for people with special needs from the age of 18. At the moment the Centre is attended by 72 service users with mild and severe intellectual disabilities, profound and multiple learning disabilities, autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy. The main aim at the Centre is to help service users to develop their daily life skills and to be as independent as possible, to pratice and show all possible abilities and strengths, communicate and participate in community. The Centre offers activities such as sewing, knitting, making souvenirs, ceramics, textiles workshops and etc. Respite care service is provided at the Centre as well. Addressing these challenges the staff members at the Centre are putting all the passion to create an environment where a person with special needs can be safe, feel accepted and understood.
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About the Day Centre "Šviesa"
Day Centre "Šviesa" was opened in 1992 years.
Day Centre is in Vilnius.
People with intellectual disabilities can attend centre.
At Day Centre you can do things yourself or with help.
At Day Centre you can choose activities:
sewing,
knitting,
textile,
ceramics,
sports,
painting,
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drama,
music,
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workshops.
It is very important for us you feel safe and happy at Day Centre.
to provide high quality day and respite social care services in a community;Day centre „Šviesa“ clients are going to be called service users, which was decided at service users council meeting.
Day centre „Šviesa“ community members – service users, their family members and carers, staff members, volunteers.
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Respect;
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Uniqueness; |
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Equal opportunities; |
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Right to self-determination;
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Abilities and potential;
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Full participation; |
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Openness to the public;
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Quality; |
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Responsibility;
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Creativity;
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Professionalism. |
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To expand and improve social care service for people with mild, severe intellectual and profound multiple learning disabilities, taking into account the changing needs of service users at the Centre, social policies implemented by the Republic of Lithuania and requirements set by the council of Vilnius city; |
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Ensure personal meaningful activities during the day in order to develop and support servive users independence, improve the quality of life, give an opportunity and enable them to have full fledge social life in the community. |
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To form democratic society with a humane approach to people with intellectual and complex needs. |
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To implement changes according to service users, their carers, staff members, social partners, the financier's needs as well as internal and external service quality assesments and achieved results of service delivery. |
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Constantly to improve and update service delivery methods, apply innovations. |
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Constantly to improve the physical and informational environment of day Centre, following principles of maximum security and universal design. |
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To improve the quality of service delivery. |
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Constantly to improve the qualification and proefessionalism of the staff members, especially the specialists providing services directly to service users. |
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To motivate and encourage all staff members for efficient teamwork. |
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To strenghten relationships with social partners of the center and community of Užupis - assess their needs, expectations and respond to them willingly and responsibly. |
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To allocate sufficient recources to implement the center's goals and quality policy. |
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To bring together the entire community of the center to implement the quality policy and to explain about it to other interested parties. Social partners also should be involved in the implementation of this policy. To review annualy quality policy goals and objectives implementation. |
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To ensure that services provided for service users and their carrers are high quality and safe. |
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To ensure conditions for staff members continuous learning and professional development. |
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To recognize staff members abilities and strenghten their motivation. |
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To maintain and promote good relationships between community members, to promote their initaitive and suggestions. |
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All community members of the center are familiar with day center's "Šviesa" quality policy. It is also available to all interested parties. All community members ensure that their activities are completed with provision of the quality policy. |