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Giving us a voice: meeting the need of people with learning disabilities from BME communities
- Publisher:
- ARC; BILD; Mencap
The website for the National Charter for Inclusion project. The project aims to improve access to services for people with a learning disability from black and minority ethnic communities and their families. The site provides details of the national Charter for Inclusion and a list of useful resources. Short films where people with learning disabilities from ethnic minorities tell their own stories about finding somewhere to live, finding employment, staying healthy and having a voice are also included on the site.
The key to progress?
- Author:
- MOORE Debra
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 9(5), July 2009, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article provides an overview of the eleven key areas covered by new guidance on health action planning and health facilitation, launched as part of a Valuing People Now resource pack. They aim tackle health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities. The areas cover: a whole systems approach, identifying health needs and monitoring progress, comprehensive health checks, a human rights approach, public health, partnership boards, action for health frameworks, workforce, supporting people and family carers to plan, including everyone, and good health action planning and health facilitation.
Bridge to vision: enhancing eye services for people with a learning disability
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, February 2009, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The pilot Bridge to Vision is described. The project aims to improve access to, and outcomes from, appointments with community optometrists for people with a learning disability. The pilot was funded by NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
Health checks on the horizon
- Author:
- TAYLOR Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.12.08, 2008, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
England is to roll out annual health checks for people with learning disabilities. It will draw on the experience in Wales. Hertfordshire is cited as an example of one Council in England who are already providing health checks for people with learning disabilities.
Can facilitators bridge the health gap?
- Author:
- JULIAN George
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, September 2008, pp.35-37.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author examines the findings of a study highlighting the steps needed to enable people with learning disabilities to get a decent standard of health care.
Understanding and overcoming barriers to substance abuse treatment access for people with mental retardation
- Author:
- SLAYTER Elspeth M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 7(2), 2008, pp.63-80.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
People with learning disabilities have experienced greater levels of freedom and access to community living in the USA over the past 40 years, and this includes access to alcohol and illicit drugs. Although the risks attendant on substance abuse are known to be greater for those with learning disabilities, there is insufficient good quality knowledge about accessible and effective treatment approaches. People with learning disabilities also face barriers in accessing treatment because of: the fragmentation of substance abuse and mental health/learning disability service provision; the lack of knowledge and expertise on concurrent treatment approaches; paradigm clashes between the rights/empowerment approach to learning disability and the abstinence/responsibility approach to substance abuse; and the lack of clinical knowledge and tools. The implications for research and social work practice are discussed.
Improving the mental health and psychological well-being of children and young people: national CAMHS review interim report
- Author:
- CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES REVIEW
- Publisher:
- Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services Review
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report highlights some areas on which service providers and commissioners will need to focus if the ten-year objectives set out in Standard 9 of the Children’s National Service Framework (NSF) are to be achieved. The Annex to the Report offers best practice guidance to assist achievement. In the short term the Report focuses on progress towards the achievement of the Public Service Agreement (PSA) target of a comprehensive children and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) in all parts of England by the end of 2006. This is measured by availability of services for young people with learning disabilities, 16 and 17 year olds, and 24 hour cover and next day specialist assessment, which are sustainable and locally-provided. The Report also makes specific recommendations for CAMHS commissioners and providers of services to ensure the delivery of good practice in the medium-term and summarises the extent of progress which CAMHS should expect to achieve by the mid-point in the NSF 10 year cycle in order to achieve the full programme.
Catch-all solution
- Author:
- HUNT Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 24.7.08, 2008, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The health of people who have learning disabilities has long been neglected. The author discusses the role of liaison nurses in primary care in improving access to health checks and care.
WHO Atlas on Global Resources for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities 2007: key findings relevant for low- and middle-income countries
- Authors:
- MERCIER Celine, at al.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 5(2), June 2008, pp.81-88.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The World Health Organization (WHO) Atlas-ID project was designed to collect, compile, and disseminate information on intellectual disabilities (ID) services and resources from across the world. This paper aims at selecting findings in the Atlas-ID that can be used as a tool for advocacy, human rights awareness, development planning, and monitoring changes regarding resources for persons with intellectual disabilities and their families in countries with the lowest levels of income in the world. After consultation with experts in the field of ID, a questionnaire and its accompanying glossary were developed. This questionnaire was completed by national respondents from 147 countries, areas, and territories that are WHO members (response rate of 74.6% corresponding to 94.6% of the world population). Cross-tabulations were calculated according to WHO region that the countries belong to as well as their levels of income. The data from the Atlas-ID allowed for documenting similarities and differences among the poorest and the richest countries of the world in relation to ID. The most striking differences pertain to the areas of information, judicial protection, government benefits, financing, availability, and access to services. The Atlas-ID allowed the identification of similarities and differences in resources and services between the four World Bank categories of countries' income, and it demonstrated the extent of unmet needs in low-income and low-middle-income countries, as well as some critical gaps between these countries and the high-level income countries.
Explore community resources before creating your own
- Author:
- FISHER Katie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 21(2), 2007, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author, a community access worker, explains how community access can work with people with learning disabilities and how it can relieve some of the problems and boundaries they face.