Tomorrow's Leaders builds on work already done by the National Self-Advocacy Forum and the Valuing People Support Team. It grew out of a desire to invest in self-advocate leadership, which in turn will contribute to more effective partnership working between people who receive support from the health and social care system and people who work within the system.

Course Aims

The course aims to build new alliances which will become powerful and make real differences to the future of disabled people.
When we use the term disabled people we are including people with a learning disability, people with sensory impairments and people with physical impairments.

Tomorrow's Leaders equips participants with the latest leading edge information in order for people to have the skills and confidence to shape future policy. Tomorrow's Leaders it is about planning the best futures for disabled people.

How the course is delivered

Tomorrow's Leaders consists of five sessions which run over ten days. Each session cover's issues that are important to disabled people and their families.

The course will be as inclusive and accessible as possible, and we strive to create a comfortable learning environment.

We ask for approximately 20 participants who are self advocates.

Course content

Underpinning the course content and design is a belief that people who use services and their families have always been the true experts on what they need in order to have positive and successful lives.

Topics included on the course are:

• History of disabled people and how people were supported
• Understanding and relating to the system
• Making change happen locally and nationally
• Vision for the future

Please be aware that the course content may change.

Last Updated : 04 February 2011. Page Author: Administrator.

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