@Positive_Lives

We are a rights based organisation working with disabled people and people with mental health difficulties to achieve equality and social inclusion.

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changingourlives.org
Joined December 2010
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Looking for information regarding learning disability and autism in community languages? Check out our new resources in Urdu and Punjabi: changingourlives.org/our-wor…:
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People have told us they don’t understand the title of ‘Acute Liaison Nurse’. Do you think this name should change? forms.office.com/e/ZgLAVwN3Y… (Questionnaire for nurses) @NHSEngland @DavidHarling1 @BornatRightTime @GeorgeJulian @CNOEngland @teamCNO_
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Whether you're a nurse, family member or young person, we'd like to hear from you. Please let us know your thoughts by 25/07 via the questionnaires on our website, under 'Our work' and 'Acute liaison nursing': changingourlives.org/a-unifo… Please retweet and share!

A Uniform Approach: competency framework and toolkit for Learning Disability Acute Liaison Nurses -...

We have been commissioned by Health Education England to produce a national competency framework for Learning Disability Acute Liaison Nurses.

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Check out our new @NHSEngland commissioned publication, 'Opening Doors', which shines a light on the good practice of learning disability nurses in forensic settings. Available at: changingourlives.org/wp-cont… | @DavidHarling1 @ElliegorRMN
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‘Why are we stuck in hospital?’ Exhibition tours to Sheffield, opening next week! linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-st…

‘Why are we stuck in hospital?’ Exhibition tours to Sheffield

Foka Wolf’s installation Why are we stuck in hospital? opens next week at SITE GALLERY in Sheffield. Foka’s installation, which debuted last March at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, responds to the...

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Check out Jayne's latest article: linkedin.com/pulse/final-aca… via @LinkedIn

Final academic report from the 'Why are we stuck in hospital?' project published

Yesterday marked the launch of the final academic report from the Why are we stuck in hospital? research project, entitled 'Why are we stuck in hospital?' Barriers to people with learning disabilit...

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Produced in collaboration with @unibirmingham, the report explores the reasons why at any one time in England there remains around 2000+ people with a learning disability/autistic people, who find themselves needlessly detained within the hospital system for prolonged periods.
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But we have encountered extreme cases where individuals have been detained for much longer, such as Kasibba, who lived in the system for 40 years. changingourlives.org/wp-cont…
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We are very proud to see this research published and hope that these findings are a step towards both a reduction in the numbers of people who find themselves needlessly trapped in the system and an improvement in agencies responses to prevent admission.
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Yesterday the full academic report from the 'Why are we stuck in hospital?' research project was published in the journal, Health and Social Care Delivery Research, Volume: 12, Issue: 3. @NIHRresearch @unibirmingham journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/h…
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Here is a link to the #posturalcare tool for learning disability nurses: changingourlives.org/wp-cont…. You can find it on our website under Our Work, Acute Liaison Nursing. #LDNsymp23 #LDNSuperpower @DavidHarling1 @CNOEngland @teamCNO_ @physiofootsteps
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Thank you, @jimgblair!
Jim Blair ThinkDifferentlyACTcreatively ⚒️🇪🇺🕊@jimgblair14 Dec 2023
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@Positive_Lives a powerful organisation dedicated to improving and enhancing lives with and for people with learning disabilities changingourlives.org check them out 👇🏻👍🏻@UKLabour @AnnKeen11 @nmcnews @gmcuk @TheBMA @theRCN @wesstreeting @KeeleyMP

Home - Changing Our Lives

Changing Our Lives is a rights-based organisation working to make an ordinary life possible for disabled people and people with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

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Jon Glasby@JonGlasby16 Nov 2023
It's the @ESNsocial European Social Services Awards tonight - with @AnneMarieGlasby and @DrBeckyBham on their way to Zagreb, representing @Positive_Lives and @unibirmingham - but more importantly, amplifying the voices of people still stuck in long-stay settings @NIHRresearch
Jon Glasby@JonGlasby12 Oct 2023
So proud that our work on leaving long-stay hospitals has been shortlisted (for 'research and evaluation' under the title of 'Sharing the Voices of those who are Institutionalisded to Change Practice and Policy'). We're keen to avoid a 'nul points' situation, so please vote!!
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Launched today! 'Hospital to Home: B's story' is now available via our website.
Jayne Leeson@jayneleeson6 Nov 2023
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@Positive_Lives @RightfulLives @LearningDisEng @JonGlasby Launch of our new Hospital to Home book, 'B's story', which charts their life moving into their new home and outlines our approaches to achieving ordinary life outcomes. changingourlives.org/wp-cont…
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On 15 September we held a networking event at @outertemple centred around our Hospital to Home work, which aims to get people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people who find themselves trapped in hospital settings for indefinite periods of time into their own homes.
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Introduced by our trustee Dr Rosie Harding, Professor of Law and Society at Birmingham Law School, @unibirmingham, the event was attended by solicitors and barristers from a range of different law firms and aimed to build a legal network of support for our work.
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Thank you to all who attended @rosiehardinguk @bhamlaw @unibirmingham @alexcicernos @BindmansLLP @irwinmitchell @HiggsLLP @OldSqChambers @MooreBarlowLLP @TVEdwardsSol @MrsArcticride @avrilrushe @moniquebouffe @varsha_jag @SCIE_socialcare @ClairetheQSW
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