Our self-advocacy tools: How and why we made them
This week (Monday 14th-Friday 18th October) is Advocacy Awareness Week. The theme for this year is #AdvocacyWorks – how advocacy can help people to be heard and get their rights upheld. For this, we [...]
Co-Design Group: Share your ideas to celebrate AIM’s 10th Anniversary!
This month’s Co-Design, Feedback and Review Group will be asking for your ideas on how we can mark the 10th Anniversary of the Autism AIM service. So far, we have a series of blog [...]
How the Mental Health Access Project can help you
Since launching earlier this year, our Mental Health Access Project (MHAP) has been very busy. Whether doing one-to-one work with clients, planning in training sessions for mental health professionals in Leeds or undertaking sensory [...]
Mental Health Equity Project: Training advocates to work with autistic adults
Since the Autism AIM – Mental Health Equity Project launched around three years ago, one of the main parts of its’ work has been to provide autism awareness training for a range of professionals [...]
Drop-in Autism Hub sessions for October 2024
For this month, we will be running two drop-in Autism Hub sessions. They will be on Tuesday 8th October and Tuesday 22nd October, both open from 4pm-7pm. At the Hubs, we have the following [...]
Co-Design Group to look at Personal Independence Payment (PIP) guides
This September, our Co-Design, Feedback and Review Group will be looking at a series of guides we are working on, about Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The core guides are: Guide 1: Starting Your PIP Claim [...]