This document discusses the objectives and achievements of the Royal Association for Deaf people's Children, Youth and Families services. The organization aims to support families with deaf parents or children, enable deaf children to participate in mainstream activities, and provide skills and opportunities for deaf youth. Some key achievements include hosting family experience days and residential weekends, launching a deaf youth club, and providing business skills courses for deaf young adults. The organization helped over 120 deaf children and youth through its various projects in the past year.

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Children, Youth and Families
Our Objectives
Support families with a D/deaf parent or child by providing
information, family events and support groups.
Enable D/deaf children to access mainstream activities,
giving parents a short break from their caring role.
Organise youth-led activities for young D/deaf people
which provide them with the skills, knowledge and
confidence they need to progress into adulthood.
Recruit and train volunteers to support families and D/deaf children at various activities and workshops.
What we have achieved
Held our first ever “Experience
Day” in September 2011; so
that families could see the
work we do, give feedback and
offer ideas for new projects and
support.
Following feedback from
families, we held our first ever
Families Residential Weekend
with 10 families taking part in a
range of adventurous activities at Bradwell Outdoor Centre in
Essex.
Launched the Green Lanes Deaf Youth Club in partnership with
‘Remark! Community’ and with
support from St John’s Deaf Club.
Provided the region’s first ever
Business Enterprise Course
aimed at young deaf people in
partnership with the Prince’s Trust; giving them the skills and
knowledge they would need to
become self-employed.
Successfully implemented and
piloted the use of an online
booking system for RAD
Children, Youth and Families Service events; which will be
available for an increasing
number of events over the
coming year, making booking
events much easier for families.
Continued to develop our
partnership work with a range of organisations, including
National Deaf Children Society (NDCS) who have trained our
staff to deliver the NDCS Family Sign Language Curriculum.
In partnership with the Spanish
Deaf association, ASPANPAL,
we held an exchange where
eight deaf young people from
England took part in eight days of activities with eight young
deaf people in Murcia, Spain.
During the year, 65 families have taken part in our Family Events and 120 deaf children
and young people benefitted
from our projects, with a total of over 750 individual hours of support delivered.
A young boy enjoys fishing at Jimmy’s Farm during a family event
Aims for 2012/13
Set-up a new monthly Family Support Group to support 10
families, providing peer support,
information sessions and
workshops on a range of topics such as accessing benefits and
talks from local services.
Pilot Family Sign Language
Courses with 5 families in Essex based on the NDCS Family Sign
Language curriculum.
Increase the number of opportunities for young deaf people to participate in sporting
activities and launch another
new Deaf Youth Club.
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