Shifts don't have to be boring

 This is a very back-to-basics post and it is aimed at support workers, caregivers and anyone else in the support or Disability industries, I have seen so many posts on other platforms around this topic that they are desperately looking for things for a client to do on a shift I live in a beautiful town called Toowoomba located on the darling downs and it has some of the most hidden gems imaginable,  and admittedly some would need to be day trips and need approval but some are  quite local and we are going to start recording some as well, As admittedly support needs to have the basics done first and done well, the basics depending on what the client wants  are housework, groceries, Doctors and other medical or mental health appointments,  as some clients like myself don’t fit into the day centre model despite trying, so we are thinking way beyond the library, a local park,  pool, Gym,  to other experiences the build on the client's skills and brings them independence,

This is just the start of the list we came up with and this is just within Southeast Queensland.

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Highfields falls

Peace haven park 

Highfields walking trails 

 Heritage Village 

Talk to scouts about the camp 

Karbala - Danish flower art 

Crows nest cordals 

it's worth it. 

Ipswitch - free zoo 

Art gallery - toowoomba, 

Art trail walks 

 The dams? 

Lesly Dam - talk to scouts about Operation Swamp Rat. 

Darling downs stream 

Bulls head in, 

Glengalan historic homestead? 

Allora - sunflower trails - pay for photoshoot for social media 

Flagstone Creek - tin chain sunflower farm 

Drive down Flagstone Creek  

Empire what's on - 

School musicals 

Rep tether 

Review - guides and scouts 

Exercise place at Drayton   bod

Buddhist temple - meditation 

Boyce gardens 

Japanese gardens 

Picnic point walking tracks  - Indigenous education signs 

Mouse proof inside 

Uni gardens and walking trails - in general show library is accessible to the public and you can pay a community membership fee to join the library, so if they are studying that is an underused resource,

Elders sail yards - on a sale day 

Camboya - bull and barley in walking tracks and 

nobby s pub 

Sister Kenny Museum  at Nobby

Baby Henderson's Health History Museum 

Baliy Henderson pool? 

Highfields Cultural Center - wats on 

  

No more than an hour travel time as a rule  

 Okey aviation museum 

Pets galore  walking track 

Visitor infomation center - wahts on 

Trail near there 

Gaton  cultural centre and transport museum 

Powerhouse - live music - find out if they still do gigs 

Bell St Mall op shops and transport hub.  

 Community access care BBQ? 

Community car wash?  

Rumours international - see what is on,

Gold Park to support the local football team

Quilt a craft – sewing classes

 

   

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