Excursions, including regular outings, provide valuable opportunities for people with special needs to explore the wider community and to extend their scope of learning. Fun Care Gery is a strong advocate of using excursions as an essential inclusion means for people with special needs. Our service is always mindful of additional risks that may be present during excursions which Fun Care Gery believes should be conducted in a way that:

1. Ensures the safety, health and wellbeing of the disabled people being included and cared for by the service.

2. Meets the emotional growth and motivational/developmental needs of the participants that are being supported and cared for by our service.

Excursions are a great way to get disabled people motivated, interested, and inspired by activities outside of their home and and the space that they receive supports in. Excursions can encourage people with disabilities to participate in hands-on activities like planting vegetables and feeding animals. Additionally, excursions also present real-world experiences and allow participants to constructively explore and ask questions in a safe, encouraging environment. One of the real benefits of special needs participants attending an excursion is that it provides them with ideas and concepts that cannot be replicated through other means such as computer screens, television etc.

Excursions with disabled people to museums, art galleries or historic sites for example also provide participants with a greater appreciation of the cultural, artistic, historical values and legacies of their society as well as their role within that environment.

Excursions are an essential inspirational/motivational tool for getting special needs people involved in society. For these reasons Fun Care Gery strongly advocates for these activities to be part of the support programs we offer our participants, and our service is always encouraging our support workers and clients to get actively involved with excursions as an educational tool for our participants.

Please feel free to contact our service by email at info@funcaregery.com.au for more information about the advantages of excursions in the growth and development of our participants. We are very confident that our support programs that are heavily invested in utilising the benefits of excursions programs will provide our clients with great benefits and our participants with much satisfaction and joy.