Our Core Services

All cover photographs by Connor McLaren

Reactive support services

 

We receive hundreds of messages and phone calls every year from individuals and families in urgent need of support. The support provided will depend entirely on the needs of the service user(s) but may include:

  • help filling out forms or preparing for important meetings;

  • advocacy (letter and email writing, telephone support, attendance in person at key meetings and appointments);

  • signposting to other specialist services;

  • family support interventions (with home visits).

 

Drop-in and outreach services

 

Through weekly drop-ins at the Group’s offices and its varied outreach services (including at HMP Perth and several homeless centres in Perth City), individuals are listened to, signposted to other useful organisations, advised and supported in any way we can.

 

Social opportunities and peer-to-peer support services

 

Those affected by ADHD are at an increased risk of experiencing social rejection and isolation from society. The Group provides a program of social events throughout the year. In addition to providing social opportunities, individuals with ADHD and caregivers of those with ADHD are able to come together and support one another. For young people we have run a small youth group with trained, experienced staff for many years now.

 

Information services

 

Clinical guidelines, including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), identify the provision of information as an essential component of the treatment and management of ADHD. The Group organises dozens of varied information sessions every year for those affected by ADHD and their parents/carers.

In addition to numerous one-off sessions, our 6-week mentoring program and family information sessions have been extremely popular, while recently we have developed and began to deliver an 8-week program for Tayside families in partnership with the Dundee & Angus ADHD Support Group.

 

Training

 

Research into the attitudes and levels of understanding of ADHD among different professionals who support those with ADHD remains patchy but highlights the need for greater education in these services. The Group has developed a series of introductory and strategy-based presentations about ADHD and delivers these to a variety of different services every year.