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Here for You Don't Walk Alone
We are meeting on a social basis with other parents with children with disabilities and autism. They often express feelings of frustration in their day to day lives. These feelings of frustration often result in negative impact on their mental state.
OUR PURPOSE
Our Purpose
The promotion of social inclusion among families with children with disabilities and autism in Milton Keynes and surrounding areas who are excluded from society, due to their social and economic position by the provision of support and education centre to enable them to develop and gain new skills.
OUR VISION
Our Vision
Greater understanding of the difficulties faced by families with children with disabilities and autism.
• To improve confidence and social skills
Our Mission
To provide a website for health information. Reduced isolation and improved support through sharing experience. To provide respite for parents.
Activities
Social activities /workshops
Parenting training
Parent outings
Zoom meetings
Why we do it
1.
To improve mental health
Parents who have a child with a learning disability:
Experience lower couple relationship quality (over a third are in relationships which would be classed within the clinical practice as ‘distressed’, compared to less than a quarter of other parents)
2.
Respite for parents
Parents who have a child with a learning disability:
Are less likely to find time to spend together as a couple (for example ‘date nights’) • Are more likely to experience finance and childcare issues putting a strain on their relationships.
3.
Reduce isolation for parents
Parents who have a child with a learning disability:
Are not likely to have a network of friends, and a shocking one in six do not have a single close friend. Isolation is clearly a major concern as over a fifth feel lonely often or all the time. The damaging impact of these pressures on parents’ wellbeing is clear as they are less likely to feel good about themselves, and more likely to feel down, depressed or hopeless which in turn impacts negatively on the children’s wellbeing.