Measure 7 – Support for Young People with Disabilities
The first table below shows the Output/Outcome Indicators that were published as part of the Measure Sheet on Pobal’s website. These are what Pobal
will report on to the Department at the end of the funding.
In order for us to compile the end of funding report (covering data for all funded projects), you will be asked to provide answers to the questions set out in
Table 2.
Table 1: Published Outputs/Outcomes
Outputs
All output measures below to be for the general category of people with a disability but figures also to be given for those with autism
 Number of people with disabilities supported;
 Number, type, sector and duration of work-sampling opportunities undertaken by participants;
 Number and type of life-skills training initiatives undertaken;
 Number who availed of life-skills training opportunities
Outcomes
Projects using innovative ways to develop life-skills will be asked to report on and demonstrate “what makes this an effective model”
Table 2: Reporting Questions
Data Query
1. No of Participants by Age, Gender and current
occupation, including people diagnosed with
autism
Data format
Total Numbers for:
M/F
Age:
15-19
20-24
Main Current Occupation:
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School
University
Notes
Participants are all the young people with
disability who benefit from any projects/
programmes/ training funded under the
Measure. Voluntary or paid staff who
participate in modules designed to upskill staff
or raise awareness etc. should not be counted
under this heading.
This Dormant Accounts Funding Measure
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2. Number, type, sector and duration of worksampling opportunities undertaken by
participants
Other post-school course
HSE-funded day service
HSE-funded rehabilitative training
Work (paid, unpaid, full or part-time)
No current educational course or support
service
Other (please specify)
A table will be provided for you to record the
following details:
Type of work sampling
 Independent work experience
 Staff/mentor assisted work experience
 Job taster or job sampling
 Job shadowing
 Volunteer work
Duration
 Full or part time and number of weeks
 (or days in the case of job taster/sampling)
3. Number and type of 'Life-Skills' training
initiatives
Sector
 Private sector Business/Commercial/Retail
 Community & voluntary services
 Health sector
 Local Authority
 Environment development or protection
 Other (please specify)
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Total Number of Life-Skills Training Initiatives
includes reference to persons diagnosed with
autism. You will be asked to separate out the
M/F and age and current occupation figures for
‘all young people with a disability other than
autism’ and ‘those diagnosed with autism’.
The numbers here are for people who undertake a
work sampling opportunity as a direct result of your
projects’ activities.
For each case you will need to record the type of
work, duration and sector from the categories
provided. For instance one individual may be
undertaking: Staff assisted work, part time, for 12
weeks, in the Health sector.
The figures you provide at end of project will not be
individual records but the totals only e.g. total
numbers doing part time work, total gained work
experience in a business setting etc.
For the ‘other’ category (under Sector), you will be
asked to provide all reported examples.
‘Training initiative’ refers to any planned
intervention like a programme, course or series of
Total number of initiatives undertaken which are
directed at:
 Employment skills
 Career guidance
 Interpersonal skills – including communication,
assertiveness, anger management etc.
 Personal management skills - including money
management, time management, leisure
pursuits, information seeking etc.
 Practical living skills - including hygiene and
personal appearance, health and nutrition etc.
 Other (Please Specify)
Total number of participants in Life Skills Training
Initiatives.
4. Other activities undertaken
Initiatives for staff, family members and carers
 Total number of initiatives
For each initiative you will be asked to provide the
following details:
 Type of programmes/initiatives
 Number of participants
 Type of participants (voluntary staff, paid staff,
family members/carers, other (please specify).
Resource material
For each resource you will be asked to provide the
following details:
 Type (format/medium) of resource material
modules. Any one course could include elements of
several or all of the listed options. You will be asked
to provide an overall total for number of training
initiatives delivered as well as a count of the listed
options covered e.g. if your project ran:
 a training course covering employment and
interpersonal skills, run 3 times in the year and
 a training course specifically on practical living
skills run twice in the year,
that would be:
Total ‘Life-Skills’ courses: 5
Employment skills 3
Interpersonal skills 3
Practical living
2
You will also be asked to provide the total number
of participants availing of Life Skill training initiatives
(no breakdown of skill type required for participant
numbers).
Some projects include activities that do not directly
target young people with disabilities such as
upskilling staff members, ‘train the trainer’ modules,
supporting family members/ carers through creation
of support networks or the production and
dissemination of resource material.
This question asks you to report on those activities.
‘Initiatives’ refers to planned activities rather than
ad hoc or day-to-day project work. Only report on
completed initiatives e.g. if you spent time planning
and developing a train the trainer course but didn’t
get any course participants, don’t include it.
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produced.
Subject matter of resource material
Intended audience
The questions on type of programme and type of
participant are free text i.e. you will be asked to give
a description. These should be in brief terms e.g.:
Type of programme/initiative: Network
Development
Type of participants: Family members and carers
For resource materials, only report on materials or
media created specifically for the purpose of wider
dissemination (including creation of websites), not
the production of materials to support project
activities such as worksheets to support a particular
training course.
Again brief details only for the type produced, what
it covers (subject matter) and intended audience.
This funding supports projects that are exploring innovative ways to support young people in acquiring life-skills before, or immediately after, finishing their
second level education, including alternatives to the Rehabilitative (Life-Skills) Training Programmes currently provided by the HSE. Projects developing innovative
ways to develop life-skills will be asked to report on and demonstrate “what makes this an effective model”. Guidance will be provided on the reporting format
towards the end of the project. It will be an opportunity for you to give a short account (no more than 2 sheets of A4) reflecting on:
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Key achievements
Key challenges
Highlight lessons for others undertaking similar work
Consideration of why this might be considered to be an effective model