Sports Club
Sport for people with physical disabillities
The Llars de l’Amistat Cheshire Sports Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to the practice of adapted sports for people with severe physical disabilities. The purpose of the Llars de l’Amistat Cheshire Sports Club is to offer the highest quality of life to its members by means of playing sport. The Llars de l’Amistat Cheshire Sports Club was established in November 1996, and is registered in the Register of Sports Entities of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Currently the Club is made up of athletes affected with cerebral palsy and other physical disabilities, supported by volunteers specially trained in these adapted sport activities and assisting athletes. Our Club is a member of the Assembly of the Spanish Sports Federation for Cerebral Palsy and a member of the Catalan Sports Association for Cerebral Palsy.
Criteria for sport for people with physical disabilities
The purpose pursued with sports activity for people with physical disabilities is the same as that which can be sought in general. That is, physical maintenance and development, psychological maturation and socialization of the person.
We believe that sport in the physical disabilities field is a valuable rehabilitative and integrating instrument. It allows affected people who practice it to have better physical development, creates criteria for overcoming situations of daily life and promotes attitudes that facilitate the social normalisation of people with physical disabilities Our intention is to give the athlete the possibility of enhancing their physical abilities, thus contributing to the prevention of loss of functionality, to the improvement of their health and their quality of life.
The practice of sports occupies a part in people`s social life. The preparation of the event, the expectations of success or failure, the interaction with colleagues, family members and other groups that participate in the activity stimulate communication and contribute to personal development.
On the other hand, sports activities are another way of raising awareness. They also give athletes the chance to prove their competence in spite of their limitations by completing sporting challenges.
Sport does not necessarily have to be competitive, simply playing sports for fun improves health, personal growth and quality of life.
The adapted sports for athletes with physical disabilities that are played at the Llars de l’Amistat Cheshire Sports Club are: BOWLING and SLAOM, in addition to the promotion of leisure sports activities.
Day centres
These are day care services for people with physical disabilities where activities aimed at the user are carried out which, with their direct participation aim at a structural rehabilitation of the person and an improvement in the relationship with their civic environment. Residents have a physiotherapy room, manual, cultural and leisure activities to promote their integration into the community.
Our functions are both personal and social adjustment, as well as therapeutic activity.
What we offer
Centres
Our centres are small residential centres, with limited places. This is in order to encourage coexistence and to help the residents perceive the residences as their own home. We want to be a reference in care service, applying the model of comprehensive care centred on people. Because for us our residents have always been the centre of our service and our reason for being; The most important thing for our team is, from an ethical standpoint, to respect the will and autonomy of the people we serve, maximizing their personal skills.
We work to improve the quality of life of the people who live with us and we accompany them in their life projects.
The Foundation also has some housing – apartments – with complementary professional services and help for people with physical disabilities, to help them develop an independent life. These Independent Coexistence Modules (MICs), centrally located in the city of Barcelona, Vía Augusta nº 269-273, are designed for physically dependent people who, alone or with their family, aspire to a high degree of independence and social and professional integration.
Ethical Work
The Foundation has an ERE (Space for Ethical Reflection), which is a consultative, interdisciplinary and plural space, and has the purpose of being an area for analysis, training and advice on ethical issues that arise in the day to day basis. This space is at the disposition of the Foundation’s entire community (residents/persons served, family members, workers, volunteers and members of the board of trustees).
Among its objectives are reviewing the Foundation’s guidelines from an ethical perspective and/or creating new ones for the improvement of care. In the same way, it aims to improve the quality of care for people who reside or are users of services in the different care homes available to the Foundation, through the promotion of ethical values and good attitudes in the care of said persons.
How you can access our services
Access to our centres must take place in accordance with the criteria established in the current social services legislation and it is the respective care services for people of the Territorial Services of the Department of Social Rights or the Consortium of Social Services of Barcelona that, once the personal needs have been assessed must guide the referral of the person to the appropriate resource.
Access to services for people with disabilities is made through the care system for people with disabilities (SAD), from which a resolution is sent communicating access to both the user and to centre they should attend.
In addition to this, the corresponding resolution must also be issued within the framework of Law 39/2006, of December 14, on the promotion of personal autonomy and care for people in a situation of dependency.
