‘Creating Family Champions’ course 2017.
This course is specifically for family carers of children or adults with learning disabilities and is OCN (Open College Network) accredited.
The course runs for 6 sessions, over 6 weeks (dates to be confirmed) and participants will need to attend every session in order to gain their certificate.
To find out more and register your interest see the course description: Creating Family Champions Course 2017
Welcome to our 2nd Em.Bold.en newsletter. This is a regular update to let you know what we’ve been doing and what we have planned.
The Embolden project (funded by Comic Relief) was started to give a strong voice for older families who have relatives with learning disabilities to influence decision makers, hold them to account and improve services.
Welcome to the first Embolden newsletter December 2016
This year Oxfordshire Family Support Network (OxFSN) ran a series of workshops around the county to explore, debate and create solutions for families supporting adults with learning disabilities, especially older families.
Read the first Embolden Newsletter December 2016
The Embolden Project (funded by Comic Relief) asked carers:
The aim of the project is to give a strong voice to family carers and to influence and hold decision makers to account within health and social care services.
OxFSN will schedule more Embolden events and workshops in 2017.
Family carers at the “Meet the Decision Makers” event in November 2016
LDOX.org – Oxfordshire’s Learning Disabilities Online Community!
An Internet forum to ensure that people with learning disabilities, people with autism, children with special educational needs and people with related disabilities in Oxfordshire get the best support and opportunities available.
Parents, friends, relatives, professionals working in the field, and of course people with learning disabilities themselves are invited to join the forum, ask questions, share information, and talk about what is happening in their lives!
The group has been supported by Jan Sunman from the Oxfordshire Family Support Network and Neil Morris from Together 4 Change.
The formation of the community and the initial stages of its life are being researched as part of Neil’s PhD studies at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York. Information about the research can be found here.
The forum aims to be a neutral space where people supporting people with learning disabilities in Oxfordshire can come together to support each other, to exchange knowledge, experience and information, to highlight and discuss the issues that concern us, and to be a friendly place to meet online.
To find out more about Oxfordshire’s Learning Disabilities Online Community and to participate in the forum please do visit www.ldox.org and join in!
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