CIC is a leading not-for-profit service provider and registered charity. CIC was founded in 1988. With the closure of long-stay hospitals, we saw the opportunity to provide each individual with care and support based upon the principles of choice, dignity and respect (a precursor to the person-centred approaches we champion now). CIC is the 58th largest charity in the country by income (or 34th by how much we spend on our services), with a turnover in excess of £74 million. CIC supports individuals to live full lives in the community - this includes people with a wide range of needs from: learning difficulties physical and/or profound difficulties mental health concerns autism elderly frail huntingtons alzheimers and dementia substance misuse recovery homelessness acute brain injury children/young people in transition people from service breakdown. The services we deliver are according to individual need, but include: 24 hour support qualified nursing care floating support support into employment/education shortbreaks and respite domicillary care counselling. The majority of people who use our services are supported in their own homes or tenancies; in a residential setting or access our daycare facilities. As a not-for-profit organisation we continually re-invest in our services, developing innovative and far-reaching practises. By seeing the person, not the label and working to provide choice and dignity, we can improve the quality of life for each individual. Our ability to deliver best value and our growing reputation for succeeding in providing services where others have failed, makes us a preferred choice for purchasers across the UK. Engaging colleagues To launch CIC’s new five year business plan, CEO Phil Edgington (pictured above) and his senior support team held a series of “Engage days” across the UK, to meet with CIC managers and hear their ideas about how CIC can develop and improve our services to the people we support. As CIC services stretch from Aberdeenshire to Portsmouth, we wanted to ensure no one was missed out, so four one day events were held in February and March, starting with Widnes and then moving onto Falkirk, then Durham and finally back to Widnes. Each Engage day was attended by up to 100 colleagues. Attending on the last day in Widnes was service manager of the LEO project, Hayley Thompson. Here she takes time out to tell us all about the day. Click here... Working in partnership with leading change agencies, CIC is striving to become a fully integrated organisation. From every area, people who access our services, their families and friends, CIC colleagues and other stakeholders, are getting involved in our service user social inclusion programme: Towards Social Inclusion. Towards Social Inclusion aims to: enable people who access our services to meet facilitate access to meaningful training and learning opportunities in collaboration with CIC colleagues build upon and enable participation in project management issues ensure participants enjoy the process and begin to effect change within the organisation. CIC have adopted a variety of approaches to working with facilitated groups of people who access our services, uniting people across learning difficulties, mental health, substance misuse, homelessness and older persons provision. Community Integrated Care (“CIC”) is registered as a company limited by guarantee (no.2225727) whose registered office is: Old Market Court, Miners Way, Widnes Cheshire WA8 7SP CIC is also a registered Charity (519996)   Here are stories from CIC’s annual review ‘My life…My way’. Our contributors will tell you more about our mission, vision, values, aims and objectives, than any other traditional report could. To download a copy go to Publications. Active Lives Eileen Banks Active Support Howard Rice Residential Living Stan Fisher Continuing Care Julie Cowan Crisis to Recovery Bernard Shaw New Beginnings Bernie McDerra