History : Discovery Bay from 2003 to 2005

In December 2003 the much anticipated residential home in Discovery Bay opened. Five young women embarked upon an exciting development in their lives. The majority of the group had only ever lived at home with their families.

The young women were encouraged to make as many lifestyle choices as possible whilst living in Discovery Bay, from the meals they prepared, to how they spent their leisure and relaxation time. They all did their fair share of shopping, housework and cleaning. Understandably, there were plenty of disagreements, as you would expect with any group of people living together. This allowed relationships in the group to develop with a greater sense of honesty and awareness of each other needs.

The present and the future! Apartments at “PY” in Chai Wan

In 2006 a new phase in the residential programme began.  Two new apartments opened in Chai Wan giving young adults a real life-skill experience in independent living.

Services Objectives

• Enabling individuals to grow to their full potential through the opportunity to live independently.
• Integration into the local community.
• Dispel traditional and commonplace negative barriers and associations surrounding adults with learning disabilities.
• Creating a culture that nurtures inclusion for people with a learning disability in society.
• To achieve our objective of social inclusion of our service users in society, we will equip them with the life and social skills and support that are required.
• We render life skills programme for our members as well as the students from ESF and International schools.

This year, we moved into a flat in PY, Chai Wan. It takes us 45 minutes to get there from Central. We live by ourselves, with support staff. Living away from home gives the chance to learn how to be independent and do things for ourselves in the flat.

We do all the house work and go to supermarket to get all the household things and food. The flat is big; it has three bedrooms and a large sitting room. We have got some nice furniture in it, which we chose. Joanne and Suzette share a room, Laurie and Camilla share a room and Vicky currently has her own room.

PY is nice, it’s beautiful but quiet.

Written by Camilla Bent & Vicky Wong