Our Commitment
Better Futures For Everyone
Shane's Merchandise Success
Shane has worked tirelessly over nearly a year with his mentor and it is his effort coupled with unconditional love support and acceptance from his family at home and the community at large that has made this incredible journey possible.
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His art has been now transformed into merchandise that people can access and his expression through art and can be a part of everyone's lives. What strikes us most about this amazing young man is how he is consistently motivated by the process of creating his art and not as much by the outcome of it.
Custom-designed Services
This involves working with young children to develop skills that are essential to start learning. These include:
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Pre-learning and Life Skills
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Behavioural Interventions
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Sensory Integration
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Home Programs
Our work with adults involves training in basic skills needed to engage in productive work. These include:
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Money Management
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Time Management
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Communication and Interaction
The Owl House runs various courses that train adults with special needs in professional skills that aim to get them employed. These include:
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Store Management
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Hospitality Training
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Gardening - Grow your own food
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Upcycled Handicrafts
OUR PROGRAMMES
Hourly Individual Services
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Pre-learning skills
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Life skills
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Behavioural Intervention
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Home program and parent support
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Between 1-3 appointments a week
Part-Time
Group Services
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Social communication
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Group activities and goals
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Recreational skill development
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Professional skill development with mentors
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Community building programmes
Full-Time Adult Learning Programme
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5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Professional skill development
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Offsite skill training and internship
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Community integration programmes
Community Building and Engagement
We bring community participation activities into our space through workshops and training in collaboration with other local organisations and people from the community.
Environmental ecology with Wild Otters.
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Duration: 25 sessions
Cost (per annum): Rs. 50,000
Price: Free
Status: Sponsor needed
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Sporting Around
Football and physical activity with Forca Goa.
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Duration: Weekly
Cost (per annum): Free Support
Price: Free
Status: Sponsored
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Family based creative art program with Sasha Braganca.
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Duration: 25 sessions
Cost (per annum): Rs. 40,000
Price: 50% of cost
Status: Completed
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Mentor Programmes
We invite individuals from the community to bring their talent into our space and help our students experience a wider range of interests, to eventually allow for individualized training and employment opportunities.
Ceramics with Nimmy
Book Reading with Flavia
Art with Ambreen
Martial Arts with Sanjeev
Culinary Skills with Kris
Learning Management System
1. Enrollment and Assessment
Understanding where to best postition our support with our students and families.
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Testing and evaluation of skills in various areas to establish where current skill-sets lie
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Establishing immediate needs of child and family
2. Preference Testing
Understanding what our learners enjoy and prefer to make learning fun.
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Allowing for free access of multiple environments and areas of learning
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Establish dislikes/fears
3. Individual Education Planning
Designing strength based custom plans for each of our learners
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Deciding what section of services the individual needs
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Setting incremental goals for an individual
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Collaborating with family, school and other therapists to draw out a comprehensive plan for each child
4. Goal Evaluation & Home Programs
Making sure that families and facilitators plan the way forward together
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Documenting progress made in each session and collating this information to update and evaluate the individuals progress
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Integrated family support in the form of goals to be worked on at home.