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to teach them to be emotionally stable and socially acceptable in
order that they may live harmoniously within the community.
From this Centre several of the trainees, accompanied by
members of the staff, joined the North Wales holiday party
organised by the Tunnel Avenue Industrial Training Centre.
Park Vista Adult Training Centre
Held on lease, this centre comprises the ground and first floors
of the premises of a private undertaking and provides facilities
for 60 adults of both sexes. Unfortunately, restrictions imposed
by the terms of the lease tend to limit the exploitation of this
establishment to its full potential and the service is correspondingly
circumscribed.
Outwork and training are carried out in the main hall on the
upper floor which is also utilized on Thursday evenings by the
Park Vista Club. Outwork is simple and consists mainly of carding
stationery display cards while other occupational work carried
out includes needlework, knitting, rugmaking, etc. Trainees are
conveyed to the centre by coach.
During the year a successfully organised holiday was spent at
a large guest house at Cliftonville and several outings to places of
interest were undertaken.
Some difficulty was experienced in obtaining staff at this Centre
which was compelled to operate for the whole year with one post
constantly vacant.
Tunnel Avenue Industrial Training Centre
The year 1969 was notable for the opening on 12th May of this
purpose-built Centre designed in accordance with general standards
prescribed by the Ministry of Health and catering for the training
and daily work of 60 mentally handicapped adults of 16 years and
over.
Universally acknowledged as an excellent building, this Centre
is staffed by a manager and assistants with forward-looking ideas
concerning training. Certainly the installation of machinery has
made for an extension and variety of work and there is keen
competition among the trainees for permission to work the lathes,
fly presses and bench drills, etc. In this up-to-date workshop, built
to simulate real modern factory conditions, the trainee is confronted
with actual "working situations". Furthermore, the provision of a
classroom in this Centre enables organised instruction to be given
in such social subjects as money values, simple reading and word