Future Horizons Leeds is a specialist post-19 college providing lifelong learning opportunities for adults with complex communication needs in Leeds. At Future Horizons we are passionate about aiding our learners to acquire and further develop life skills to live as independent a life as possible. These life skills, personalised in respect of what is deemed important to each of our learners, underpin daily life at the college. Life skills occur during every minute at college; through preparing dinner, to helping clear the table, and socialising with our peers. In order to provide learning opportunities for life skills in the most natural sense, we also provide real world opportunities to both develop these skills and promote independence amongst our learners. These opportunities can include shopping, using public transport, cooking/baking, cleaning, etc, as well as placement work experience in the local community. We strive every day to empower our learners by using such approaches as Intensive Interaction everyday by intertwining social communication throughout everything we do. Staff follow our Intensive Interaction Mentee Program where they partake in a 6 month Mentee course featuring in-depth training including the psychological aspects, with mentor input from our Advanced Intensive Interaction Practitioner. We would love to hear from anyone in the Leeds area looking for a placement.
