Living with disabilities, Mental health and other problems

 There are roughly about 1.5 million people who live with disabilities in the UK, roughly 1.2 million live in England. Roughy 2.16 of us are adults and about 2. 5% are children. https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/research-and-statistics/how-common-learning-disability

Here the figures for the number of people with disabilities in paid work in the Uk. https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/research-and-statistics/employment-research-and-statistics 

Examples of jobs for people with disabilities, mental health, and other problems, nursing, teaching, law, sport, business, media,  IT, working with animals, maybe more. 

When supporting people with disabilities, mental health, and other problems with careers say someone who has skills as a learning disability and mental health  Awareness trainer like myself. Even I may tap in google for example job for people with disabilities.

 More often than not there are showing adverts for jobs as support workers etc, which are jobs for people who want a career in supporting people with disabilities not jobs for people with disabilities, which is a difference. This is something that needs to be made accessible because some people with disabilities etc may apply and find out it's not for them, which is a disappointment.

 Don't get me wrong, not to say that a person with a disability cannot do a support work roll but that may not be the case for everyone.  

This why making sure adverts, applications, forms are clear, easy to read, accessible, etc. 

Mentoring roles are a fine example because there are so many that vary from jobs supporting people with disabilities, yes it is possible for people with disabilities to support people with disabilities but those who advertising the jobs need to be clear to say whether or not they are looking for professionals or not. For example; these job roles support people with disabilities to shop, cook, clean, personal care, etc or this may mean a person with a disability supporting a person with a disability such as say one to one Advocacy, Mentoring, even counseling but not necessarily professionally. However, with the right support out there anything could be possible. 

Up until the 1970s, many children with learning disabilities had to stay in institutions, I was born in 1969, from the age of 7 till I was 12 years of age, I was in boarding school and I wasn't alone. The way I look at it now as advantages and disadvantages, more to the point not just as children with disabilities, mental health, and other problems but even just as children didn't have a voice or even in most situations, not a choice. This was not good in a way of struggling to express ourselves to be not heard when bad things happened but then this can see that as good and bad. I wouldn't like to say many lived through it because that something I don't fully know but I also know that most of us did, including myself, where if you did live through it made you a stronger person, that may be good but the damage to your mind it's not but then it gives you a chance to give others a voice but then no one should face bullying and abuse to start with but everyone should a voice to say if it does happen. Everyone should be heard as well as seen, that includes children, the disabled, those with mental health, other problems, the elderly, and all vulnerable people. https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/research-and-statistics/stigma-and-discrimination-research-and