Action and Rights of Disabled People in Newham
General welfare advice and information; opportunities through access; enabling local people to become actively involved in and comment on access issues; 1-2-1 advocacy, support and training for volunteer advocates; regular consultation meetings on a range of topics. Benefits service; supporting disabled people by ensuring maximisation of benefit entitlement. This includes appeals and tribunals where necessary. Free service.
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Asian Deaf Women's Association (ADWA)
Charity providing support for Asian deaf and hearing women and mothers with deaf/hard-of-hearing children, living in London. Aims to encourage Asian Deaf women to be independent. Offers home visit, one-to-one and basic training and weekly groups in the community. This includes: social and communication skills; basic IT skills; skills training; work experience; help looking for work; mentoring
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Behaviour Support Development and Advisory Team (BSDAT)
Advice; support and training providers for working with school age children and young people with EBSD.
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Careers Management Futures
As specialists in providing 1-2-1 careers guidance in a variety of settings in the community, we offer each client individual attention, enabling them to identify their career aims, understand the range of opportunities open to them, and the importance of learning and training throughout life. All our services can be accessed through our advice centres.
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Child and Family Consultation Service (CFCS)
CFCS employ a range of specialist CAMHS practitioners in child psychotherapy, clinical psychology, educational psychology, family therapy, art therapy, nursing, psychiatry and social work. There are emergency psychiatric and self-harm rotas, and highly specialist teams for conduct disorder, adolescent mental health, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, hospital liaison and complex problems. There are a number of outreach and liaison links, including Early Start services.
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Choice 136 Connexions Service
Counselling, housing advice, careers guidance, legal advice, advice and guidance for teen parents. Staff team: Lisa Marcelle, Natasha Barrow, Angela Jasper, Toni Ferris (admin)
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Community Speech & Language and Physiotherapy Project
Delivering and teaching speech and language therapy and physiotherapy techniques.
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Database for Disabled Children and Young People
Information exchange between disabled children, young people, parents/carers and statutory agencies. To produce reports for Education Department, Social Services and Newham Primary Care Trust.
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Diana Children's Community Team
Community Nursing and Clinical Psychology service.
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Disabled children and young people's service
Services for disabled children, young people and their families
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Family for Life
Striving to rebuild and strengthen the family, marriages, parents, children, services and young people by reaching out in practical ways.
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Hartley Centre
Youth Club for young people aged 10 to 20 years with activities including football, dance, table tennis and educational sessions; after school club for children 5 to 11 years, with sessions for special needs children and a homework club; Junior Hammers Football Club, who provide weekly coached sessions, competitive league play, and a schools holiday programme; Adult Education Courses in partnership with Newceys; Age Concern offering advice for the over 50s; Job Centre Plus, this service seeks to encourage adults back into employment, by offering help with job search, compiling CV’s and job applications as well as interview techniques; Community Groups, over 40 organisations use the centre offering a range of services from Pensioner Clubs, Martial Arts, Music, Dance and lots more.
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Home Start Newham
We recruit and train volunteers who usually have parenting experience, offer emotional and practical support in families homes for between 2 to 3 hours a week. We also have a weekly Family Group.
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Intouch Therapies Limited
We run coaching workshops for adults on parenting, teaching and many other topics.
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JFK Post 16 (Beckton) Annexe
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KE Foundation, KID Centre
To relieve parents from stress and pressure of living with a child’s disability. To support the child in all six areas of development incorporated with the Every Child Matters agenda. A place where the children/parent or their guardians can be relaxed and share their knowledge. Support group for parents, advocacy.
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Kings Cross Homelessness Project
We help children access all services including healthcare
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Language, communication and interaction team
The language, communication and interaction team is part of the learning support service and works in partnership with parents and carers as well as schools and early years settings to support parents or carers of children aged 0-4 with severe communication difficulties. Develop parents or carer skills to communicate confidently with their children; liaise with schools to ensure that young children with severe communication difficulties make a successful transfer into school or nursery; support children aged 5-16 who have severe and specific speech, language and communication difficulties so that they have positive experiences in school; liaise with schools to ensure that children and young people aged 5-16 on the autistic continuum have positive experiences in schools.
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Learning support development and advisory team
This team is part of the learning support service and supports parents and carers who have children with complex learning needs aged 0-4 by arranging home visits and play groups. Liaise with schools to ensure that young children with complex learning needs make a successfully transfer into school or nursery, liaise with schools to ensure that children and young people aged 5-16 with complex learning needs have positive experiences in schools, train and advise school staff on meeting the needs of children and young people with specific learning difficulties or dyslexia.
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London Ethnic Minority Deaf Association (LEMDA)
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