Campaigning Groups

Previously posted by Josie in the Campaign & Support Groups section, which has now been removed and brought into this section....

Oldham Education Campaign

I have moved Zoe's link from another thread to this one:

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I am part of the Oldham Education Campaign Consortium, which is one of
the 10 projects supported by TreeHouse through their Parent Support
Project.

In Oldham, we are leading on setting up a Parents Forum to get more
parents of children with disabilities involved in decision-making
relevant to their kids.

We are also working in partnership with the Carers Centre to secure
funding for 2 paid posts:  Education Advocacy Worker and Parent
Participation and Involvement Worker.

www.oecc.org.uk

I am also involved in a new charity called Bright Futures www.brightfuturesautism.com
that has been set up to support research into autism interventions that
have a long term impact upon quality of life (i.e., they are
remediatory rather than compensatory).

Am interested to hear from others who are involved in local and national campaigning.

Zoe //

Josie

NATIONAL AUTISTIC SOCIETY

Another link moved from a previous thread:

//Hi everyone

The Parent Support Project that Zoe mentioned in her post above has just come to an end. You might be interested in reading our evaluation report on
the project which we hope is a useful resource for parents thinking
about getting involved in local campaigning and working in partnership
constructively with professionals.

Some more exciting news about local campaigning - the NAS is launching
a new Autism Action Network to support local autism support groups to
campaign locally. For more information visit www.nas.org.uk

I would be really interested in hearing from others who are involved in
campaigning to improve autism services and would like to share their
experiences.

Mariana//

Josie 

TREEHOUSE 

Of course, dont forget, Treehouse:

http://www.treehouse.org.uk/promoting-change

Josie