We can point you in the right direction.
Appeer are proudly lived experience led. Now we are friends we can share useful links which may help you on your journey. If we are missing anything do send us a note to cathryn@appeer.org.uk and we can add it here.
General Links
Click above for information about whether you and your daughter are ready to be left alone at home or are ready to go out alone.
Independent Support and Advice
Teens and Young Adults
Support for Siblings
The Young Carers Futures Hub is a place for young carers (16-25) to go for information, support and practical help in finding the right future career. They offer employability workshops, skills sessions, career insight days, youth voices roundtables, work experience, internships, apprenticeships, employment opportunities and more!
Sibs exists to support people who grow up with or have grown up with a disabled brother or sister. It is the only UK charity representing the needs of over half a million young siblings and over one and a half million adult siblings.
Pathological Demand Avoidance
PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) is widely understood to be a profile on the autism spectrum, involving the avoidance of everyday demands and the use of ‘social’ strategies as part of this avoidance. PDA individuals share autistic characteristics and also have many of the ‘key features’ of a PDA profile. The PDA Society has a wealth of information on their website. Here is a very useful infographic which you may find useful as a starting point. pdasociety.org.uk
Children's Mental Health Week
Emotional Based School Non Attendance
Click to find out about what professionals are hearing about school non-attendance in Surrey. This session was delivered by Surrey Youth Focus on behalf of Mindworks Surrey and Surrey Education Psychology Service. It was for professionals who were interested to understand more about Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA).
*NB this is aimed at professionals not parents/carers but is a really useful video. Also in this section you will find some supporting information and useful links around EBSNA.
Work Experience for our Community
Virtual Games Industry Work Experience!
Our corporate funding partner nDreams supports young games developers with work experience opportunities. Their nDreams Academy Virtual Work Experience Programme is now live!
Made possible by Rushmoor Borough Council and designed in partnership with U-Explore, this free, on-demand programme is designed to help more young people access opportunities in CreaTech careers in the local area and beyond. It’s hosted on the U-Explore platform, making it easy for anyone to take part.
Open to everyone, it’s perfect for those new to game development or anyone curious about exploring a career in games.
Participants will get:
-Three pathways: Art, Programming and Design
-Interactive challenges to build skills and confidence
-Insights from experts at nDreams to discover what studio life is really like
-A certificate of completion to celebrate their achievement
Find out more here: https://www.u-explore.com/page/ndreams-vwex
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Self Harm
Alumina is Self Harm UK's online support groups for young people struggling with self-harm. They have also recently launched beheadstrong.uk offering young people all kinds of information, stories and videos about looking after mental and emotional wellbeing.
