When our essential human needs are not met in balance life becomes difficult; we experience distress, low moods and anxiety that can lead to physical and mental illness.
At Blue Sky Enabling, our understanding of the importance for everyone to have their essential human needs met, underpins our approach to enabling people to live successful engaged lives of their own choosing:
- Enabling people to stay in their own homes, assisting them with their correspondences and helping them with budgeting, ensuring they are able to make and attend appointments with professionals, addresses their essential need for security, as well as their essential need for autonomy
- Asking for consent before acting, providing people with relevant information and enabling them to be actively involved in all decisions and choices on what they want to do, eat or how they present themselves, addresses their essential need for autonomy, as well as addressing their essential need for status
- Providing people with a small consistent staff team with whom they can form a relationship and who get to know their likes and dislikes addresses their essential need for attention
- Enabling people to maintain contact with and visit family members and close friends, make new friends and from new relationships, addresses their essential need for intimacy, as well as their essential need for attention
- Enabling people to attend community activities, outings and events addresses their essential need for community, as well as their essential need for status and achievement
- Treating people with respect and enabling people to participate in group activities, supporting them to pursue their hobbies, work or volunteer opportunities, addresses their essential need for status, as well as their essential need for autonomy, achievement and meaning
- Giving people the time and space alone when they want it, addresses their essential need for privacy
- Enabling people to pursue their hobbies, work or volunteer opportunities, go on excursions and holiday, do exercise and maintain a healthy life style, addresses their essential need for achievement, as well as their essential need for autonomy, status and meaning
- Enabling people to practise their religion, visit places of interest to them, go to the theatre, cinema, and concerts, addresses their essential need for meaning, as well as their essential need for community and autonomy
