Liverpool ADHD Project
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Project funding
£50,000
Funding round
We provide a service for children with ADHD in the city living at home with their families. Left unsupported and untreated ADHD can lead to social and educational exclusion. We want people with ADHD to lead positive and fulfilling lives. Consequently, we encourage parents, children and professionals to work together to overcome the isolation that results from untreated and unsupported ADHD. We are a charity and were set up in 2002.
So far, we have worked only with children aged 5-13 and their families. The Parenting Fund grant now enables us to employ a Family Link Worker to work with parents of young people aged 12-17 diagnosed with ADHD. The worker will:
- provide parenting programmes that help parents to understand and manage ADHD
- supervise the accreditation of parents taking the Open College Network course unit on Family Link (devised by Liverpool ADHD project)
- liaise with parents and agencies to promote best practice
- work alongside staff in the project
- collaborate with agencies that work with black and ethnic minorities to achieve better representation of black and ethnic minority children in assessments for ADHD.
Liverpool ADHD has been going for three years although its staff have a much longer experience of working with children with the condition. A large group of parents help design, manage, deliver and evaluate the service. Their work gains them accreditation through the Open College Network programme.