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General information on Covid-19 and mental health from Sussex Partnership NHS Trust- Autistica and coping with uncertainty and NAS Hospital Passport.
https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/coronavirus-covid-19-and-your-mental-health Autistica have a useful guide about coping with uncertainty. https://www.autistica.org.uk/what-is-autism/coping-with-uncertainty National Autistic Society have a Hospital Passport available to download and complete here https://www.autism.org.uk/about/health/hospital-passport.aspx
Assert weekly update- Thursday 2nd April
Hi all, We hope this finds you keeping well and safe. These are incredibly difficult times for people and we want to reach out to offer as much support as possible. We are doing what we can to develop our remote package of support. So far this has included: Telephone or video calling support via …
Assert short film to celebrate World Autism Awareness Week 2020
Its World Autism Awareness Week- 30th March – 5th April 2020 To celebrate this Assert wants to increase awareness of the condition and of our work. To help us achieve this we made a short film in the Autumn of 2019 that gives an insight into autistic people’s lives and the support that Assert provides. We …
Benefits Advice Service is providing remote support and latest benefits news now available
All Benefits face to face assessments, reviews and reassessments have been suspended.They have been suspended for a period of 3 months, from 24th March 2020 until 24th June 2020.The suspension covers all benefits and does not depend on you having been diagnosed with Covid-19 or having to self-isolate. It includes: Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Universal …
Jenna’s Wellbeing Club- pack 2
ASSERT Monday Mindfulness Assert will be providing a set of 4 weekly online meditation and welling sessions. These sessions are to start on Monday 6th and run on every Monday in April. The sessions will begin at 6:30pm and be 45-minute long. There will be more information to follow. Cat’s Activity Even though we can’t go on our planned tour of the Booth Museum Cat thought many of …
Brighton and Hove Food Partnership information on accessing food
The Food Partnership have been compiling information on accessing food during the lockdown as well as establishing new systems for food distribution. They are trying to make the information and updates around this as clear and accessible as possible and so have put together this page which links to all the information.
Assert weekly update
Hi all, We hope this finds you keeping well and safe. These are incredibly difficult times for people and we want to reach out to offer as much support as possible. We are doing what we can to develop our remote package of support. So far this has included: Telephone or video calling one to …
Assert zoom yoga class tomorrow at 3pm
Due to the current situation, the next Active Club activity will now be ONLINE YOGA The session will start at 3pm on Friday 27th March and the cost will be 5 euro. The class will be taught LIVE by Kathryn Chuck- our previous activities coordinator who is now a qualified yoga teacher and lives in the mountains in …
Remote support
Dear all The Assert office is now closed until further notice. We will up-date any news with regard to re-opening as and when the situation with COVID -19 improves. In the interim the staff will be on a changeable rota to take general enquiries on their mobiles. This will change weekly and will be updated …