ABOUT OUR BUSINESS.

Access All Areas Now! PROFILE

sara Jane Gorman and my business partner Jessica Bromley, we are Learning disability awareness trainers. Me and Jessica are members of a Self - Advocacy group called Our Shout supported by Royal Mencap in Wolverhampton.We are both members of a Self - Advocacy group called Our Shout supported by Mencap, we speak up for the rights of people with disabilities. We were both born and we live in Wolverhampton West Midlands. We are experienced in the field of learning disabilities. We have create work presentations to professional locally and regionally. We will be soon managing ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! were supported by Mencap but we are supported by Employment Pathways in Wolverhampton. we will be all working as a team to create ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!

Me and Jessica do our best to keep learning disability awareness on the agenda.


We are based at the Science park in the City of Wolverhampton. Access All areas Now! is based at Albert road Wolverhampton.

We are experienced consultants in the field of learning disability.
We have delivered presentations to professions locally and regionally.

I have delivered learning disability awareness training at.

The school of nursing at the University of Wolverhampton.

Social work students at the University of Wolverhampton.

Health care students at the University of Wolverhampton.

Student Health staff at the University of Wolverhampton.

Student GPS at the University of Wolverhampton.


Staff and manager Paddie Quick from the Special needs library Wolverhampton at Centre library Wolverhampton.


Jessica is a keen model. Jessica has done modeling in 2 run shows in the region.
In March 2009, Jessica has traveled to Bulgaria to work with children with disabilities in an orphanage, as well as adults with disabilities in Day Centres where she worked she gave independence and gave new experiences and chances for people.


I am a keen writer,I went on a script and screen course March 2009, to better my writing but I am more of a poet and short story writer. Christmas 2009, I helped Mencap to set up a Disabled writer's group, our members are only just starting to grow. Back in June 2008, I wrote and co - produced an Employment play to raise awareness of the difficulties people with learning disabilities have accessing employment. I have been on a script and Screen course to improve my writing, which my writing has got better but I am very much a beginner in writing plays. I had been going to different colleges for many years but I had lack of support with my dyslexia for my plays to be written on time.

ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! started about 18 mouths ago but we only got out building April 2010.


WHO ARE WE, WHAT ARE WE PLANNING TO DO?

Target groups and beneficiaries.

People with disabilities will be the main beneficiaries as employing delivering the services of ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW by building and creating the chances of work for people with disabilities.

Local businesses and organisations will give a range of practical soutions to help them to more responsive to the needs of people with learning disabilities. It will also enable employers to fulfil on the provision of health and social care for people with learning disabilities as employees and employers.

We have have recently done a three - mouth pilot with Wolverhampton City Council to give equality and diversity training to front - line health and social care staff.

We will give a two - hour session within training day that will be specific to learning disabilities. The Pilot will run from September to December 2009.




ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! has a vision for society where all people with a disability are valued the same as people without. People with disabilities will be listened to and included into society with the help of ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! This can only happen if people with disabilities are given the same choices and chances as all people.

We believe that our vision and mission can only be achieved if we make full use of the talents and resources people with disabilities have got. We want to diverse business, and enable and organisations to do the same. Where individual differences are recognised and valued and where discriminatory attitudes and training is challenged.

ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! believe that all people should have the same chance in life, no matter the ability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs like all people. ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! we will accept people who have a keen interests to help and work with people with disabilities.

We want to make sure that our services are there for all and they are used by a big range of businesses and organisations to enable them to give more inclusive service to local people in the West Midlands. We hope that in the far future we will encourage ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! or businesses like us to be all round Britain.

WHERE WE HAVE GIVEN LEARNING DISABILITY AWARENESS TRAINING SO FAR.

The school of Nursing at the University of Wolverhampton Social work students at the University of Wolverhampton Health care professionals at New Cross Hospital Wolverhampton

Employment Pathways helped myself and Jess to set up our own business called' Access All areas Now!' we were a Social Enter prize now we are Sole Traders. Employment Pathways is a Work Scheme for people with disabilities.

The purpose of this business is for myself and Jessica will see that people with disabilities will get easy access to the right help than what we did to get by in life. We could well end up been based at Albert road Day centre in Wolverhampton. Even though we call ourselves ACCESS FOR ALL AREAS NOW! not everything will happen at once. It takes time and money to build a business. I think we will be starting off with 2 areas Travel Buddy and Link Nurses. We will be offering out training to people and places who wanted to be trained in Learning Disability Awareness. We will start off small and work our way up.

Myself and Jess have had disabilities all our lives that have affected us and slowed us down in difference ways, we have faced the bad barriers of having disabilities but through those barriers we have achieved some very good skills.Our experiences of having had disabilities have helped us to be about to set up and run our own business. Jessica and I want to work hard enough to see that people with disabilities are getting right help to what they want in their lives just like all people.


TRAINING FROM ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!

ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! want to employ people with disabilities as well as people without. ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW will give people with disabilities help and advice for their talents to grow.

ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!
Students and Service providers will be learning off local Learning Disability organisations, businesses, services and companies; they will also learn off ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! We will train in these services to help people with learning disabilities access easy services as possible.


The Learning Disability Awareness Training will run into 3 units.

Accessible information service

Audit service Learning Disability Awareness service.

LEARNING DISABILITY AWARENESS TRAINING.


STAFF WILL NEED TO LEARN ABOUT.

History of people with disabilities.
Staff will have to learn about the hard barriers people with disabilities had to face with their lives so they can learn to make things better in future.
There are still a lot of these hard barriers going on even now.
Staff will need to notice what people with disabilities are find hard, then either give or and find the right help for them.

Staff need to believe and notice when people with disabilities have talents. Staff will need to learn how to advice them where to people with disabilities can show their talents. Today we still have a long way to go until people with disabilities feel a part of society. Staff will need to team up with Jessica and I to see that things get better for people with disabilities everyday.

Staff must be more positive with people with disabilities then they will feel more positive about staff.

Not just staff but all people without disabilities should treat, accept and respect people disabilities equally to everyone else in society.

Staff must treat people with disabilities equally to everyone else.

Staff should use easy and clear pictures and words so people with disabilities under stand information. Staff should be nicer to people with disabilities and people with disabilities should be nicer to staff.

There should not be any discrimination against anyone whether they have a disability or not.
People with disabilities are not useless, with the right help people with disabilities will get by people who had a disabilities, you have to find the right help for yourself like all people with disabilities have to?
A lot of disabilities happen by accident, from birth and through no fault of peoples' own.

LEARNING DISABILITY AWARENESS TRAINING.

ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!
Access All Areas Now! will officer bespoke training to local businesses and organisations which Learning Disability Awareness trainers will do. The course will give a positive under standing of our training, needs and aspiration of with a learning disability are trained to train services to be and give good services and the commercial and retail sector to better outcomes for people with disabilities who may be receiving services or who are potential workers. The training will search issues first hand and clearly demonstrate the talents people with disabilities have. Aim to break down the barriers of prejudice and stigma that people with disabilities have always faced.

ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION.

Our service will be there for other services if they want learning disability awareness training. We will do our best to help Service providers learning how make information for people with learning disabilities to read and in turn, other client groups. This could range from Service leaflets, help with consultation materials or policy documents.

People working in the field of learning disabilities will be trained by two people with disabilities. This service will be there for local businesses and organisations to help information become accessible with disabilities Jessica and myself who are Learning Disability Awareness trainers.

With the training of Access All Areas Now! people will be trained to make information more easy for people with disabilities to read and understand People with a disability and in turn, other client groups. This could range from service leaflets, help with consultation materials or policy documents.

INCLUSION AUDITS
These will mixture of formal and informal checks, creating independent advice on how to make a businesses and organisations more learning disability friendly. The audits will access a small set of standards across a range of criteria. For eg:


User involvement
Creating Policy Adapting resources and built environment Communication( both written and verbal)

Local organisations and businesses undertake and passing audit will receive an award acknowledging their positive approach and this will be given through the local media and networks built by ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!

Those who don't achieve the award will be given advice how to better their training. Other well know approaches such as 'mystery shoppers' will be used to check for inclusive training and pratice whether organisations and businesses are meeting current legislation.