Windmill provides Day Service to adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability. Currently The Service is extended to 69 inidividuals. In response to rising needs, Windmill has opened 2 additional Service locations in recent years.
Windmill’s aim is to support those who access the Service to develop and employ the skills necessary to enable them achieve a sense of self-worth, self-actualisation, fulfillment and achieve their rightful place in their communities as equally valued citizens.
This aim is achieved by employing a Person Centred approach, within a social and human rights based model of practice in line with HSE social policy New Directions.
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Building and nurturing meaningful relationships has always been at the core of the service Windmill offers. In 2023 we were introduced to Social Pedagogy, a practice framework that recognises positive, respectful relationships as crucial in supporting well-being, learning and social inclusion. Using this framework, we believe that:
- Every human being has within them a ‘diamond’, the potential to learn, grow and shine
- Our job is to create an environment in which people can recognise their unique potential and richness so that they can flourish, learn and achieve well-being.
- To do this we need to build and nurture meaningful relationships with the people that access our service and support them to have positive relationships with the people in their lives.
All Windmill staff have received training in Social Pedagogy and aim to deliver a service that reflects these beliefs.
We provide tailored supports for each of the individuals who access our service, against the background of therapeutic training programmes. We develop, with the person, a flexible Person-Centred Plan that identifies and addresses the person’s needs while supporting them to develop and pursue their life goals.
Our training programmes create and provide a safe and stress free environment in which each individual is enabled to grow, develop and use both personal and practical skills, all at their own pace.
The individualised training programme takes place both within and external to Windmill, enabling community inclusion out into the wider community.
Supports are provided to individuals within regular working hours and beyond, and in response to the needs and goals of those who access the Service.
last updated on: 05/11/2025
Windmill Therapeutic Training Unit Limited
Larkins Lane,
South Main Street,
Wexford