Our Healthy Living and Physical Activity Project, which aims to make community healthy living and physical activity groups and facilities more accessible to adults with autism, learning disabilities and severe mental illness, now supports ‘mystery shoppers’ to give feedback to organisations about their activities.
The ‘mystery shoppers’ are people with lived experience who will try out the activities and give their views.
Their free toolkit is now available online and can be used in many ways; as a training tool, a checklist, the starting point for a team discussion, it can be printed off as posters or added to induction programmes for staff and volunteers.
Topics include:
• What is autism?
• What is a learning disability?
• What is severe mental illness?
• Different ways of thinking about disability
• Changing Attitudes
• How to involve disabled people
• What helps people join your activities?
• Using the right language
• Physical environment
• Advertising your activities
• Setting up a buddying system
• Skills and knowledge
You can sign up to the network for support in how to use it by emailing sadia.asghar@disabilitysheffield.org.uk
or
kate.webster@disabilitysheffield.org.uk
