Services by County

The day centre in Bantry is open Tuesday to Friday 9am -5pm to male and female clients with a physical and sensory disability aged between 18 to 65 at the time of application. We deliver an outreach service to clients in the Castletownbere area on Mondays. Door to door transport is provided to clients who attend the Physical and Sensory Day Centre. The day service offers a wide range of activities within the day service and local community such as yoga, shiatsu, reflexology, art, computers, drama and music, educational courses with local education centres, volunteer work and links in with employability.

Bantry Respite Service aims to provide a break for service users, in a home from home setting whilst providing professional care and support to those using the service. Bantry Respite Service provides a three night respite service (Monday – Thursday or Tuesday - Friday) to any persons both male and female with a physical and/or sensory disability who live in West, North Cork & South Lee Care Area and are between the ages of 18 & 65 years old, at the time of referral. This service is not available for children (under 18 years old) or those who are referred following their 66th birthday.

Servicing the Cork City and county area RehabCare Douglas offers services across a wide range of activities and programmes tailored to meet the needs and wishes of service users including education, social integration and independent living skills programmes.

RehabCare's community-based resource centres in Cork assists people with disabilities to achieve their full potential and a better quality of life. Our resource centres provide people with access to a range of supports and activities on a one-to-one basis and in group settings. Activities vary from centre to centre and depending on the interests of the people who attend each service some examples are: art and crafts, drama, horticulture, leisure activities, cookery, independent living skills, sports, dancing, group excursions and many more.

The service is open 8.30am -5.15pm Monday to Friday and operates a drop in one evening a month and supports adults with a disability aged between 18-65 years. The service operates a variety of activities both centre and community based with options of two or three activities morning and afternoon timetable is available upon request. Activities are reviewed and change according to clients requests

The service links in with local charity shops for volunteer work and other establishments for work experience, employability for employment opportunities and local colleges and schools for further education courses and is part of the social farming programme in West Cork.