The transition from children’s services to adult services creates vast amounts of anxiety for families with disabled children as they are facing changes, new services, and new people. Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s Disability Charity, hold regular advice sessions to help guide families through the process. 

Diverse Abilities supports children and adults with physical and learning disabilities, and wants to make the process easier for families interacting with all the services involved in providing their support and care. 

The next session takes place at The Treehouse, Diverse Abilities’ new home for Children’s Services in Hurn on Wednesday 19 March at 10.30am. 

The morning will be a chance to meet with professionals from the NHS, BCP Council and Diverse Abilities, as well as other charities and organisations in the Dorset area. It is also a chance to speak with other parents and carers who may be experiencing similar situations and challenges. 

Lynda Larke from Diverse Abilities commented: “It’s great to get families together and help them to get the support they need. When children reach 18, their families are at a cliff edge, everything they have known in terms of funding and healthcare provisions ends, and the process begins all over again, so we’re here to help make that transition as seamless as possible.”

The advice session will take place at The Treehouse, Merritown Lane, Christchurch, BH23 6DT.

Those interested in attending can register their interest at diverseabilities.org.uk/transitionsdropin, where questions can also be submitted ahead of the event.