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Adults25+

Adults 25+

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Speaking up have projects and services for people over 25 years old.

we provide advocacy services for people with learning difficulties,mental health problems and other disabilities.

click here to search our advocacy services for a suitable one near you.

We also manage a mental health helpline for people in barnsley called BLINK.All the helpline staff have personal experience of mental health problems and offer a confidental, non-judgemental signposting service.

Click here to find out more about BLINK.

To find out more about advocacy Click here

we also run projects which people with learning difficulties can get involved with.

These projects are:

The Cambridshire Parliament

The Cambridgeshire Parliament is a forum for people with learning difficulties. We run it like the Parliament in Westminster. Our MPs all have learning difficulties and they are elected by the people with learning difficulties that they represent.

They have regular meetings where the MPs tell professionals what needs to change to make services better for people with learning difficulties.

click here to find out more about the cambridgeshire Parliament

Next Steps

Next Steps supports people with learning difficulties to gain more confidence and learn life skills. It does this through workshops and skills programs on things like travel skills, getting a job and confidence building.

People on the Next Steps courses also have one to one coaching to make sure they are learning what is right for them.

Click here here for more information on Next Steps.

And we have products and services that you can buy from us-these includes:

Consultancy and Training

Speaking Up have a team of trainers with learning difficulties who run accessible training sessions for people with learning difficulties.Training that we have done in the past includes.

• How to take part in meetings
• How to be a good trustee
• The disability Equlaity duty
• The Mental Capacity Act
• How to be involved in job interviews.

Click here for more information about our accessible training or email John.Woodhouse@speakingup.org

Publications and Resources for people with learning disabilities

We write booklets for people with learning difficulties to help them get the right information about things that are important to them.

The booklets are written in easy-read by a team of people with learning difficulties and have pictures and coloured sections so they are easy to use.

Some of the booklets are:

• Moving – about moving house
• My Choice – about making your own choices
• Sex and Sexuality – about relationships, body parts and sex
• Keeping Yourself Clean – about personal hygiene
• When Someone Dies – about how you feel when someone dies

publications on mental health issues coming soon..

Click here for more information on the booklets or email Vicky.Barker@speakingup.org

For links to further information or to get in touch with us please click here to go to the useful stuff page

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