HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM MENCAP
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Mission Statement
• Our mission is to empower children and adults with learning disabilities to get their voice heard, reach their potential and be included in their local community. • We seek to promote their wellbeing and development in all areas of their lives as well as supporting their families and carers. • As a person-centred, independent charity we provide advocacy for individuals and families, and our projects offer play opportunities for younger children, peer support and skills development for young people and adults, and a range of inclusive activities. • We also campaign for improved access to key services such as housing, health and social care.
About This Cause
H&F Mencap supports people with learning disabilities to have equal access to housing, employment, health services, day opportunities, education and leisure facilities. The organisation provides a range of person-centred services and activities to adults with learning disabilities, disabled children and parents/carers of disabled children living in Hammersmith and Fulham and the surrounding area of west London. Through our activities, we strive to support people to have equal access to all services and opportunities to be included in the community, ensuring that peoples’ rights are respected and that user involvement is central. The details of key areas of work delivered are as follows: Advocacy Worker provides one-to-one independent advocacy support to people with learning disabilities on issues such as health, housing, employment, personal relationships, rights, and leisure, to ensure that people have equal access to these services. The advocacy worker supports people with learning disabilities and their families to ensure that they speak up and have a say in their life choices. PMLD Advocacy Worker provides specialist advocacy support to people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (including complex needs and Autism) and their carers to ensure that they have equal access to services and have a say in their lives. Parent/Carer Advocacy Worker (Children) provides one to one advocacy support to parents/carers of disabled children in Hammersmith and Fulham. The parent/carer advocacy worker provides information on housing, health and education and supports parents to get the best possible services for their disabled child. The advocacy worker represents parents’/carers’ views within commissioning and planning groups. Parentsactive Co-ordinator facilitates a peer support group for parents/carers of disabled children to ensure that they have a say in service provision and development of services in the borough. The co-ordinator supports Parentsactive members to regularly produce a newsletter distributed to all parents of disabled children in the borough. This newsletter provides a source of information to parents on forthcoming events as well as important legislative information relating to disabled children. They have developed a separate interactive Website providing information to over 400 parents/carers of disabled children living in the borough. My Life: Out and About is our community based project that offers support for adults with a learning disability to access a wide range of activities of their choice within the community. People using this service pay for it using their personal budget provided by their Local Authority which enables them to choose what service they wish to use. Play Provision Project promotes the development of play inclusion opportunities across the borough. The worker delivers play schemes for disabled children and their siblings aged 5 to 11 years. The play schemes provide fun, exciting and innovative activities to disabled children and their siblings. Youth Development Project Co-ordinator supports young disabled people (aged between 13 and 25 years) to be involved in a positive transition from children to adult services. The Co-ordinator works with children’s services, schools, colleges, employment, housing and adult learning disability services to ensure that the young person and their family/carers are fully involved in this process and have a say in their future life plans. This Project also offers social activities for young disabled people to develop friendship networks outside of school and college. Young People's Transition Practitioner supports young people aged 14-25, with autism spectrum disorder and/or a learning disability who also experience mental health difficulties, to transition into adult services. We are affiliated to National Mencap but receive no funding from them.