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Welcome to the Assert staff team Maria and Sue
Assert have 2 new members of staff who are currently being inducted into their roles remotely! Maria is our new Autism Support Advisor and is currently working 2.5 days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Sue is our new Volunteer and Activities Coordinator and is covering Cat’s maternity leave over 15 months. Sue is …
Jenna’s Wellbeing Pack #7
Its here- Jenna’s Wellbeing Pack#6
Jenna’s Wellbeing pack#5
More useful resources and things of interest from Jenna and the team at Assert Today is also the Wellbeing online Active club. This week’s physical activity video for Active Club is an arm workout video! https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/nhs-fitness-studio/body-blast-arms/ This is our first ‘intermediate’ class we will be doing together, but it is only 10 minutes long! Please wear …
Jenna’s Wellbeing pack # 3 is available now. This contains a variety of useful resources
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 …