Toolkits for Providers
Do you support autistic people? This toolkit is for you.
Below are some important topics that people said they wanted health and social care providers to know about or provide. We hope that these resources will foster understanding and promote better support for autistic adults' intimate lives.
We share some of the main themes to emerge out of discussions with autistic people about their intimate lives and signpost you to other important existing resources.
Starting Conversations to Support Intimate Lives:
A guide for social care professionals
Helping you put intimate lives on the menu for support. Include sexual and romantic relationships in conversations about support in a way that fosters choice and control for autistic people. Health and Social Care providers often do not ask autistic people about their intimate lives. We provide advice on how you can include "difficult" conversations about intimate lives in your support.
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Autistic loving: An awareness raising workshop for social care staff
Free training pack for social care staff supporting autistic people. This toolkit shares the findings and the training developed by Dr Claire Bates of Supported Loving on how to best support autistic people who access social care, as part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) project.
Acknowledging the diversity among the autistic people you support
Coming soon.
Supporting autistic people who have experienced rejection and shame
Coming soon.
Skills for Care: Supporting personal relationships in the social care workforce
The adult social care workforce needs to have the right values, skills and knowledge to support people they care for to have positive personal relationships. Skills for Care, together with Supported Loving have produced a range of resources to help employers think about what workers need to know so they can create a development programme for their organisation. Skills for Care and We love that Supported Loving have developed a package of training materials to help social care employers develop the skills and knowledge needed to support people who draw on services with personal relationships.
A list of dos and don'ts for health and social care providers
Coming soon. We're working on a list of Do's and Don't for providers based on our interviews and focus groups
Sex and relationships education and resources across the entire life span
Coming soon.