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ABCD Cymru

WHAT WE DO WHAT WE DO

The aims of ABCD are:

To support and empower disabled children, young people and families in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan to take up services.
To work with service providers and policy makers to raise awareness and be more responsive to the need of disabled children, young people and their families on an all-Wales basis.
To provide opportunities for mutual support for parent carers and also for disabled young people.
To initiate develop, maintain and facilitate parent support groups.
To undertake direct casework with children, young people and their families, in relation to social care, health and education.
To provide a consultation mechanism for statutory and voluntary agencies.
To represent BME disabled communities at strategic level, locally and nationally.
To undertake research where appropriate.
To provide an information resource for disabled children, young people and their families.
To arrange and facilitate supported referrals to agencies.
To provide access to supported and culturally appropriate play and leisure activities for disabled children.
To work with young people to access leisure, employment, education and training opportunities.
To provide relevant training and training resources for statutory, voluntary, health and other relevant organisations.
To provide demographic information for policy makers on ethnicity, language and conditions.
To provide consultancy and advice to social work teams and under take joint visits.
Offer consultancy to statutory, voluntary, health and other organisations, on a Wales-wide basis, on engaging with BME disabled children, young people and their carers.