Category Archives: Support

Pupils, Support

School leaver webinar

A fun and informative series of short, 30 minute webinars to support you with the next steps of your career journey!

We understand everyone is facing challenges just now and your plans may have changed or seem unclear due to the current situation. We want to let you know that our careers advisers are still here to help and provide you with the career information and guidance you need for your future.

Join our advisers, Hilary and Erin for our second session Thursday 11th June at 3pm on:

Preparing for interviews-

• General hints & tips (phone & video)
• Understand how Skills Development Scotland can help you
• Get actions and links to resources that you can do yourself
• Get involved with questions and comments
• Find out what future webinars to look out for

Click the link to join –

CareerJam 2 – Interviews

We hope you can join us!

Missed the first session? Don’t worry, a recording of ‘Acknowledging the situation and how your careers adviser can help you’ will be available soon on
www.myworldofwork.co.uk/pupils

Careers, Parents, Pupils, Support

Skills Development Scotland – Update

We understand everyone is facing challenges just now and your plans may have changed or seem unclear due to the current situation. We want to let you know we are still here to help and provide you with the career information and guidance you need for your future.

Join our advisers, Hilary & Erin for our first session on Tuesday 2nd June at 3pm Click the link to join – JOIN CAREERJAM SESSION 1

information, Parents, Pupils, Support

Service Spotlight: DIFFERabled Scotland

DIFFERabled Scotland are a parent led charity offering peer support, training & awareness sessions to Additional Support Needs families. The charity was founded by two parents experiencing many challenges navigating their autistic children through childhood. The peer support sessions enable parent/ carers to share their challenges and potential strategies with others.

The charity aims to offer support around all areas of Neurodiversity (including autism, Add, Adhd, Dyslexia & Dyspraxia). The planning and delivery of all of our sessions involves neurodiverse trainers and facilitators or those with valuable lived family experience.

We welcome people of any age and we aim to support families also without a current diagnosis, who are wishing to explore their child/ young person’s needs further.

We currently run peer support groups within Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire and regular Autism and Neurodiversity training and awareness sessions from our base in Springburn, Glasgow. Our sessions are available to anyone from any local authority area who can travel to access of service. Our training is free to all parent/ carers. We do offer training opportunities for professionals at a small cost.

We regularly update all our peer support sessions, training sessions and events on our FB page ‘DIFFERabled Scotland’. We also have a closed FB page
‘DIFFERabled Information Sharing Page’ with lots of useful information. Please contact us for any further information at:
Differabledscotland@gmail.com.

Evening, information, Parents, Support

Independent Living Fund Info Evening

The Self-Directed Support Forum have organised an ILF info evening on Wednesday 6th November at 7pm in The Gatehouse, Eastwood Park G46 6UG.

The ILF Scotland Transition Fund provides money, for up to one year, to support young people living with disabilities (as defined in the Equality Act 2010) to improve their lives. This includes autism, learning difficulty, physical disability, mental health (for example anxiety or depression) or hearing or visual impairments.
The purpose of the fund is to help young people, between the ages of 16 and 21 living with disabilities, with the changes they face after leaving school or children’s services to be more independent and to continue spending time with other people.

If you or someone you care for is age 16-21, please come along and find out more about how ILF can help.

To book a place please call our office on 0141 638 2525.

Careers, Events, Parents, Pupils, Support

Health and Social Care Partnership Invitation

East Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership are holding to a transition event for pupils with Additional Support Needs on Thursday 19th September from 3pm to 8pm at Eastwood House, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, Glasgow G46 7JL.

This event is has been arranged to help better inform parents and young people of the transition process and the potential supports available during this time.

If you are likely to leave school in 2020, you also have the opportunity to book an individual appointment with the SDS Forum and/or MART (East Renfrewshire Council’s Monday Advice and Representation Team). Please contact the relevant person below to arrange a time in advance;

For an appointment with SDS Forum, please contact them directly by email – admin@sdsforumer.org

For an appointment with Money Advice & Rights Team, please contact Nadine Mcaleney on either Nadine.Mcaleney@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk or 0141 800 7136.

For full details click here