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Michelle Livesley talks about good person-centred paperwork
Read Helen’s blog on Learning with Ellen
Jane’s guest blogger this month, is her sister Jo – A cancer co-survivor story
Charlotte is speaking at the Annual Supported Living Conference on the 28th June 2012
Helen’s guest blogger this month is Caroline Tomlinson – Extending the breadth of circles of support
A free download of the 'Getting a job, getting a life and getting it right' book is now available via the HSA Press website
01 December 2011
Getting a job, getting a life and getting it right - Six ways to support young disabled people into work. By Nicola Gitsham, Helen Sanderson and Linda Jordan with Jaimee Lewis and Freya El Baz.
Young disabled people can and do want to work. Having a job is a crucial part of leading a fulfilling life yet very few adults with learning disabilities in England are in paid employment. So what does it take to help young disabled people get a job and get a life?
This book will inspire and motive the agencies that support young disabled people and families that it is positive and possible to get -and keep-a job. Drawing on extensive research and real life experiences, we will show how to get it right by:
Expecting more and aiming higher
Embedding person-centred transition review and plans
Establishing a personalised curriculum and providing meaningful work experience
Investing in personal and individual budgets for young people
Developing the market; and
Working together for change
"Young people face significant barriers to getting a job. Many are of society's making rather than theirs. Significant efforts are required to overcome these and this book takes experiences from recent high profile government projects together with work with many families and young people and blends it together into a recipe for success."
Dr. Stephen Beyer, Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities, Cardiff University
"The whole family has benefitted from the 'Getting a Life' programme as our son is now in control and knows where he wants to work. It is the pathway to an integrated and 'normal' life which means he can be an active member of his community and our society."
Kathleen Ainsley, a parent
"If senior managers are looking for a business case showing how the public purse can be more effectively used if people are supported into work rather than using day services, then this book is it. Councils are crucial in bringing together other agencies to support a young person into employment and this book is packed full of practical advice and ideas on how to do it."
Cathy Kerr, Director of Adult and Community Services, London Borough of Richmond
To download or order you copy from HSA Press click here
- About us
- What We Do
- Where
- How
- Who
- Families
- Children, Young People and Transition
- Older People
- People with Health Issues
- People with Long Term Health Conditions
- People and End of Life
- People with Dementia
- People with Developmental /Learning Disabilities
- People with Mental Health Issues
- People who are Homeless
- People who use Substances
- People who Experience Domestic Violence
- People with acquired brain injury
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- Our Programmes
- Our Courses
- Developing Person Centred Teams and Implementing Planning.
- Developing Support Plans
- Essential Lifestyle Planning - Train the Trainers.
- Essential Lifestyle Planning Facilitator Training.
- Families Planning Together
- Financial Organisational Challenges for Personalisation.
- Getting Started With Your Plan.
- Human Resource Challenges for Personalisation.
- Introduction to Personalised Care Planning.
- Introduction to Working Together for Change.
- Just Enough Support
- Learning and Reflection Day for Support Planners
- Managers and Person Centred Practices - using the new "Progress for Providers for Managers" - Checking your progress in using Person Centred Approaches
- MAP and PATH.
- Marketing your Organisation for Personalisation.
- One Page Profiles.
- Outcome Focused Reviews.
- Outcome Focused Reviews - An Introduction.
- Pathways and Profiles
- People Planning Together
- Person Centred Reviews - Transition Reviews and Citizenship Reviews.
- Person Centred Reviews: Important To/For and Working/Not Working Reviews
- Person Centred Reviews in Transition: Using the Transition Pathways
- Person Centred Risk.
- Person Centred Supervision.
- Person Centred Thinking - Train the Trainers.
- Person Centred Thinking Skills.
- Person Centred Thinking Skills with Older People
- Person Centred Thinking Skills with people who are living with Dementia
- Personalised Care Planning.
- Planning Live! Workshop.
- Positive and Productive Meetings.
- Progress for Providers and Customer Journey.
- Re-ablement (1-Day).
- Re-ablement (2 day)
- Re-ablement, the New Journey. Design Day.
- Self Directed Support in Practice - Roles and Responsibilities of Social Care Staff.
- Support Planning and Individual Service Funds for Providers.
- Support Planning and Review Strategy Day.
- Support Planning Awareness Day
- Workforce Development Strategy Day.
- Working Together for Change.
- Working with Decision-Makers (Who Agree Support Plans).
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- Families
- Children, Young People and Transition
- Older People
- People with Health Issues
- People with Long Term Health Conditions
- People and End of Life
- People with Dementia
- People with Developmental/Learning Disabilities
- People with Mental Health Issues
- People who are Homeless
- People who use Substances
- People who Experience Domestic Violence
- People with aquired brain injury
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- Norris Bank Primary School
- Oxley Park Academy
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- Care UK (Provider)
- Living Ambitions (Provider)
- Certitude (Provider)
- Real Life Options (Provider)
- Hull City Council
- Action on Hearing Loss