Testimonials
"I'm so pleased too see the great activities but more importantly the smile on our sons face!"
...more testimonials"Thank you so much to you and the team for a great camp. My son really enjoyed himself."
...more testimonials"I congratulate the wonderful staff with their endless patience, smiles and generosity towards our son. Thank you, we are lucky."
...more testimonials"Provide quality respite support for my son when required, and provided him with oppotunities to socalise with his peers and participate in activities he enjoys."
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Riverlink camps create opportunities for children and younger people with a disability to achieve their potential, promote a healthy lifestyle through engaging in physically and socially healthy activities and interact with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.
An outcome reported from families of participants on this program has also been to strengthen family relationships and provide the best opportunities for participants to build a life within their local community.
Riverlink Camps have four core components:
Participants will utilise this opportunity to build on skills that people without a disability take for granted in their daily lives. Our skilled direct care staff facilitate the learning process.
The Riverlink team design and coordinate our camps to contain the following components.
Leisure skills:
For example arts and crafts activities, dance & movement. These activities encourage and inspire the development of skills such as decision making, problem solving, freedom of expression, team work and gross and fine motor skills. This results in raised self esteem and a sense of accomplishment.
Recreation skills:
For example sporting activities, nature hunts and bushwalking. These activities nurture the development of skills such as improved health and fitness, team work, awareness/affinity of their surrounding environment and gross and fine motor skills.
Socialisation skills:
For some people with disabilities, the years of isolation and exclusion have had a profound impact on self-worth and self-esteem. (National Disabilities report “Shut Out” 2009). A key focus of our camps and activities is about increasing their confidence to interact with not only other people who have a disability, but the wider community and all its diversity such as different cultures and personalities.
Life skills:
Throughout the camp we build on their daily living skills such as food preparation, mealtime etiquette, grooming and personal care (bathing), turn taking and sharing, responsibility of their possessions and a sense of independence away from their family unit.
