EOI - Adult 18+ Therapy Residential

For over 7 years, Camp Cooby has successfully provided transformative therapeutic experiences through our unique outdoor therapy camps. Now, by popular demand, we are proud to offer **Empowering Horizons**, a specialised program designed for adults aged 18+ with diverse support needs. This program is conducted in partnership with **Mindware Psychology**, ensuring a robust and comprehensive therapeutic approach.
**Why Empowering Horizons?**
Our program nurtures growth, independence, and self-management in a safe and supportive environment. Whether facing intellectual, physical, or emotional challenges, participants will gain essential life skills and build confidence through structured, evidence-based activities.
**What Empowering Horizons Offers**:
- **Evidence-based therapeutic interventions**, tailored to individual needs and goals
- **Qualified psychologists** providing assessments, personalised reports, and ongoing support
- **Collaboration with external therapy partners** to enhance and complement the program
- **Judgment-free environment** designed to foster personal growth, self-efficacy, and independence
- Opportunities for social skills development and forming meaningful connections
- **Respite for families and caregivers**, providing peace of mind while participants thrive
**Program Highlights:**
- **Therapeutic outdoor activities** adapted to individual abilities, ranging from:
- **Low adventure**: nature walks, adaptive water activities, low-impact physical challenges, animal care workshops
- **High adventure**: mountain biking, canoeing, rock climbing
- **Expressive arts and sensory integration therapies**
- **Life skills workshops** focusing on self-management, time management, and personal care
- **Inclusive social skills training**
- **Mindfulness and emotional regulation sessions**
- **Dating and relationship guidance workshops**
**Who Can Attend**:
Our program is designed for adults 18+ with diverse support needs, including but not limited to those living with autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and intellectual disabilities. We ensure each participant's therapeutic goals are met with careful, personalised planning.
**NDIS Funding and Alignment**:
While Empowering Horizons is open to all, we have designed our program to align with several NDIS funding categories, such as:
1. **Improved Daily Living Skills**
Activities: Cooking workshops, personal hygiene routines, budgeting sessions

Please complete this form to express an interest for this adult therapy program. Please complete an EOI for EACH participant eg: if you have more than one participant attending, please complete for each person.

We will contact you soon to progress your expression of interest. Completing this form does not financially or personally commit you to the camp.

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* 1. What therapy program are you interested in attending?

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* 2. Name of the Participant attending the program

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* 3. Date of Birth (DOB) of the participant attending program

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* 4. Parent/Care Provider Details for the participant attending camp (Name/email and phone contact for emergency contact if relevant)

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* 5. We want to support you with your camp goals and work towards matching you with other participants who have similar goals. What are the goals for the participant attending the program?

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* 6. Do you currently see a therapist eg: Psychologist/Social Worker/Counsellor? If they are, what is their details and do they have current therapy goals/assessment needs that we can support them with?

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* 7. We want to help you with processing your payments. Please select which group best defines your funding source for this camp:

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* 8. We want to support you to achieve success at camp and also undertake a risk assessment to support all the participants on our programs. Are there any behaviours that we need to take into account which could increase the risk for other participants on program? (this does not necessarily exclude them but rather helps us support your success on camp)

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* 9. Do you currently take medication? If you do, could you please give us a brief summary of your medications and what supports you will require to adminstor the medications. If you are capable, you can self-administor but the medications will be placed in a lock box

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* 10. The success of our Programs are designed around the care we take with trying to match the individual needs of participants and the overall balance of the group. Our staffing ratio is 1:3 and as such we have limited places in our program. When you receive your offer of a place in the program we ask that a deposit of $500 is made to confirm your acceptance. This will secure your booking. If you are using a funding source such as NDIS we will then issue an invoice for the total program costs to your identified funding source. We will refund the $500 deposit upon receiving full payment from your identified funding provider. If paying privately an invoice for the cost difference will be made to you directly. Please note deposits will not be refunded for a change of mind. If you have any questions or concerns please comment below.

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* 11. Do you have any other comments you would like to make?

if you have any further questions please feel free to call our reception at Camp Cooby on: 07 46 966 244 or email info@campcooby.com.au

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