A very warm welcome to you from everyone at Diffability.
Let me tell you a little bit about us: We are a two part organisation.
Diffability Services:
Aims to support people with disabilities and their families with advocacy provision, support with benefit entitlements and access to wider services. We also support people with disabilities to access work by providing compatible support workers who enable disabled people to reach their full potential.
Diffability Awareness:
An educational training programme where people who are directly affected by a diffability train individuals and organisations to become more aware of all things diffability. Our awareness programmes are designed to support individuals, organisations, services, workers and volunteers across a range of sectors to develop the communication and problem-solving skills required to engage confidently with disabled people. Diffability Awareness offers face to face facilitated learning sessions on a wide range of topics to help people reflect, challenge and change their ideas, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours towards disabled people. Our ultimate aim is to engage with individuals and organisations in all sectors and groups to help effect positive and lasting social change, creating a more inclusive and accessible society.
Our Aims:
To educate, enrich, empower and enable individuals, schools, businesses and organisations about diffability and to work to challenge and change behaviours and practices to be more positive, inclusive and accessible.
To increase awareness of the issues that affect the everyday lives of disabled people and their famillies.
To help people who work, volunteer or engage with disabled people identify creative and practical ways to overcome the social barriers that challenge them in their everyday lives.
To help employers to improve the ways in which they work with and respond to disabled people and their families by supporting their workforce to implement creative solutions to identifiable barriers.
To support people with diffabilities to achieve their potential by assisting them in employment.
To provide an inclusive hub where people can claim advice and support in regards to benefit entitlements and advocacy.