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Publication:
Sexual Health and Relationships: A Review of Resources for People with
Learning Disabilities
Published by NHS Health Scotland
The Sexual
Health and Wellbeing Learning Network (NHS Health Scotland) has just
published Sexual Health and Relationships: A Review of Resources
for People
with
Learning Disabilities. This guide is intended for professionals who work
directly with people with learning disabilities, or with parents/carers,
or other professionals
from the health, education, social work and voluntary sectors. It is a collection
of reviews of sexual health and relationships resources, with review comments
gathered from a wide range of practitioners including teachers, community
learning disability nurses, clinical psychologists, health promotion
specialists, other
health professionals and support and voluntary organisations.
For
a copy of this publication please click here
Publication: Thinking Ahead: A handbook to help families of
people with learning difficulties in Glasgow think about planning for
the future and keeping
control when circumstances change.
Quarriers and SHS Trust are pleased to announce the publication of Thinking
Ahead, a guide for families with people with learning difficulties,
who would like to worry less about the future, to hope and plan more
with and for the person with learning difficulties. It is particularly
designed for people who live in or around the Greater Glasgow area,
but much of the information and approaches will be relevant in other
locations.
Individual chapters cover priority areas in planning for the future,
as identified by parents of adults with learning difficulties: building
trusting relationships, housing, support, health, financial and legal
safeguards and more. Each chapter offers information, inspirational stories
and ideas, and signposts for places you can visit or telephone to get
more information. The handbook does not provide all the answers, but
it will provide some starting point for making plans - one step at a
time.
Eddie Bartnik
Disability Services Commission, Western Australia
an innovator in supported living from Alberta
John Mcknight
Director of the Community Studies Program at the Institute for Policy
Research at Northwestern University, USA and author of ‘The Careless Society’
and ‘Community Building from the Inside Out’
Kristjana Kristiansen
Teacher and researcher of social policy at the University of trondheim
in Norway, and played a key role in the Norwegian reform of services for
people with a learning difficulty.
Jack Pearpoint
Inclusion Press