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About us
About us
Lighthouse is a grassroots venture that provides outreach support and advice to people with autism and their families. We also offer advice and autism-specific training to other multi-agency partners, employers, schools and colleges.
We have over thirty years of experience in the Autism support sector. Our staff have managed residential services, outreach support schemes and day centres and worked across a full spectrum of individual needs; planning and delivering essential support to many complex, vulnerable autistic people across Lancashire and Yorkshire. Additionally, we offer qualified support tutoring for students in Further and Higher Education. Where traditional learning environments might not be appropriate, we design and deliver bespoke courses based on an individual needs, interests and hobbies.
People and their families often tell us about the difficulties they’ve had finding the right support. This is sometimes due to a late diagnosis or a lack of local knowledge and resources. Sometimes, sourcing support that reflects their autism specific needs has been a struggle. If we’ve learnt anything, it’s that everyone has their own story to tell and all our successful partnerships have been built on actively listening to people with autism and their families.
Being a smaller, community-based provider enables us to be much more responsive and flexible. We aim to complete assessment and service design in a timely fashion and have excellent multi-agency links across the county and beyond to speed the process along. We offer advice on funding options and can also help with funding applications when autism specific advice is needed.
We have strong values, built on ground level experience and we’re not top heavy with layers of management, policy or strategy. Our focus is firmly on your outcomes.
Meet the Staff
Kris
Kris has managed a variety of services including outreach and day support services for people with autism. Kris has also worked in residential settings for people with complex, autism and mental health needs. With over a decade of experience and professional contacts he is a keen enabler of people accessing tailored made support, achieve their goals and enjoy every support session.
Adrian
Adrian has 25 years of experience working with people with Autism, both as a specialist teacher and manager of autism services in Lancashire and brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the role.
Ashley
Ashley has experience working with both adults and children with complex mental health and emotional needs and has worked for the local authority as well as private organisations. As a qualified Social Worker he aims to bring a high standard of support not only to each individual on a one to one basis but also work alongside their families and other professionals to ensure their holistic wellbeing.
Our Services
What service do you require?
Outreach support
Outreach support
We provide outreach support to people with autism and their families across Lancashire and further afield. Outreach is for people who live in their own homes but who may need help to access the community or attend activities they enjoy. We currently support people on sports-based activities such as swimming, trampoline sessions, gym sessions, bowling and football matches. We also support people to visit the cinema, concerts, restaurants and organise special day trips, based on individual interests and preferences. Alternatively, outreach support can help with day to day tasks and focus on improving life skills. Outreach is also good for those who’d like to meet similar people and improve their social skills and we host regular social groups at local venues to facilitate this.
Learning support
Learning support
Some of the people we work with are enrolled on full and part-time courses at local colleges and universities. In almost every case, support with communication, sensory and processing issues in mainstream settings is an essential element to completing a course of study successfully. We have good links with local colleges and universities and work in partnership with in-house support teams to ensure people get full access to, and have a good experience at their chosen place of study.
For those people where mainstream settings may not be appropriate, we provide personal tutoring in an alternative setting of choice. A recent example involved 1:1 tutoring in a local community centre for an autistic person with an interest in stop-motion film making. After a lot of multi-disciplinary planning behind the scenes, we were able to offer structured film making sessions which proved very successful. We pride ourselves in the thorough assessment and planning of our support packages and routinely audit what we do to ensure we are flexible enough to adapt when individual needs change.
Training and advice
Training and advice
Promoting autism awareness and understanding is a key part of our work. We deliver autism training to multi-agency partners and employers across the North of England offering full and half-day training workshops with an emphasis on practical advice and strategies for staff and employers. We are well placed to advise on the recruitment and managing of autistic employees and to advise employers on reasonable adjustment compliance in light of duties placed on employers by the Equality Act (2010). Autistic people bring value and diversity to staff teams and making changes in the workplace can often be quite straightforward in practice.
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We’d love to hear from you! Call us now on 07376-017-234 or send a message using the form below and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
