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Dorset People First "Supporting each other to speak up and lead change"
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People we work with
bullet Bournemouth People First Speaking up organisation for people with learning disabilities in Bournemouth.
bullet Poole Forum Speaking up organisation for people with learning disabilities in Poole.
bullet Dorset County Council Dorset Social Care and Health work closely with us and support the work that we do.
bullet Poole Borough Council We work with Poole on Person Centred Planning, Total Commnication, the Supporting People project and Citizenship.
bullet Bournemouth Borough Council Bournemouth Council supports our Total Communication work
bullet Connexions We work with Connexions to run the Just Say project.
bullet Dorset Advocacy Dorset Advocacy provides advocates for people with learning disabilities in Dorset.
bullet Weymouth and Portland Partnership Their website does not appear to be up and running at present....
bullet Dorset Police We work with the police on our Citizenship Projects, and we also provide placements for new Community Support Officers.
bullet Seagulls Independent Speaking Up Group of Weymouth We are a self advocacy group of adults with learning difficulties who meet up once a month to talk about things that are important to us and we have social events too. We have just been voted runners up in the 2007 Easy Information compeition run by South West Total Communication Network!
bullet Dorset Healthcare Trust  
Total Communication
bullet South West Total Communication Network A support network for people interested in Communication in the South West.
bullet Photosymbols An excellent resourse of photographs for making easy information.
bullet Easy Info Information about a range of communication issues.
bullet Change Picturebank Illustrations for making Easy Information.
bullet Widgit Software Many different software programmes for using symbols.
bullet Signalong Signing resources!
bullet Word-Bank

A website helping people understand difficult words and jargon.
bullet Makaton More signing resources.
More useful websites...
bullet Valuing People Support Team Lots of information, news and events.
bullet National Forum for People with Learning Difficulties The National Forum works with the Learning disability TaskForce. The forum was set up after it helped make the White Paper Valuing People. The job is to tell Government how Valuing People is working for people with learning difficulties.
bullet BILD British Institute of Learning Disabilities.
bullet Skillnet Just a really good website about some very interesting learning disability services in Kent.
bullet French Experience Holidays A family fun business in France who run holidays for people with learning difficulties and their supporters. Their phone number is 0033 (0) 553 569688.

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Phone: 01305 257600
Fax: 01305 259437
Email: office@dorsetpeoplefirst.co.uk