Like Providence, Moira is a unit for young people with complex social, emotional and behavioural needs. However, unlike Providence, Moira is not a hospital, and won’t accept anyone who has been detained under the Mental Health Act. Instead, Moira is designed to provide a more rehab-focused placement aimed at lower-risk young people, or those who have completed treatment in Providence and need more practical rehabilitation.

Moira is managed by qualified nursing staff, but predominately staffed by support workers. Primarily, their focus is on helping young people to improve their Activities of Daily Living, otherwise known as ADLs.

Activities of Daily Living are defined as:

• Maintaining a safe environment
• Communication
• Breathing

• Eating and drinking
• Elimination (using the bathroom)
• Washing and dressing
• Controlling temperature
• Mobilisation
• Working and playing
• Sleeping
• Expressing sexuality
• Death and dying

As well as improving these ADLs, Moira’s chief aim is to consolidate the therapy skills learned by young people.  Stays in Moira will be a maximum of two years, and there are fewer formal therapies than those provided in Providence.