To celebrate the start of this year's ADHD Awareness Month we added a new article to our main website. Many people will question why we need a special month to raise awareness of ADHD, especially when we campaign all year round - check out the reasons why by reading the article at https://spacestockport.org/adhd-awareness-month/ Throughout October the SPACE Team will be attending events, sharing information about ADHD and raising funds through our Just Giving page to help our group deliver … [Read more...] about ADHD Awareness Month
General
ADHD Awareness Month
October is ADHD Awareness Month, so the SPACE Team are being more vocal than usual about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) ADHD is a life long condition and for us every single month of the year is ADHD Awareness Month, so why do we have a specific focus in October? Why does ADHD need an awareness month? Simply put we need an awareness month because the lives of those with ADHD are still being ruined by ignorance. Ignorance, stigma and misinformation is still routinely … [Read more...] about ADHD Awareness Month
SPACE Website Useful Resources Page
We recently added a useful resources page to the main SPACE ADHD website which includes links to webpages, information sheets and videos. We only share information that we think people will find useful, particularly families and we categorically will not include anything that hasn't been checked by at least one member of the team. There is a wealth of information available online so it's important to us that we only share information which we feel is genuinely useful. We will continue to … [Read more...] about SPACE Website Useful Resources Page
Volunteering
As many of you know SPACE is ran by a small team of volunteers. We use our professional skills and knowledge to support families with ADHD. This week is National Volunteering Week, which seems like a good time to talk about the challenges of managing a task of this size, with the constraints that come with running a busy organisation with such limited resources. At present we primarily work with parents of children with ADHD. The key strength in our current structure is that we are firmly … [Read more...] about Volunteering
Online Resources
We have gathered a number of online resources, which we feel may be useful to the families we work with and the wider ADHD community. At present the list only contains a small number of links but this will grow over time. The reason for this is because we will be reviewing each individual resource before sharing on our website, a process which takes time. We will only ever share things that we believe to be useful, which come from sources that we are confident are reputable. Whilst we are … [Read more...] about Online Resources