ADHD Alliance

A great blog by Andy Sampson-Munday!

The ADHD Alliance has turned 3 ???? Thank you for all of your support, we still have so much more to do. ??

Carl Mumford is delivering a presentation on Neurodiversity in Policing, focused around recruitment and education. Join him on 19th March at 12pm.

We're working on transferring all of our guides and content to our forum which is now accessible to all serving police officers and staff. ?? Our forum can be accessed here; https://lnkd.in/eizVzrqT ?? The forum will be made available to more emergency services when we have fully set the forum up. To sign up, please use your .police email address. Feel free to share this within your police force.

This is a really important survey for the autistic community ??

Clare Preston-Davies, MSc (Dist) and I want to let you in on a little secret.... However first context. We have been talking for months about doing something in relation to neurodiversity and the menopause. Clare did a magnificent webinar for the ADHD Alliance for adhd awareness month. (recorded for police colleagues fyi) This got us thinking about a general online support group. We met and planned a date......And then folks.... ADHD HAPPENED!?!? And we COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT IT. That is until last Wednesday, where in a frankly uncharacteristic attempt at forward planning I looked at my schedule for this week and saw the placeholder. So in essence my friends. Clare and I rushed out an invite at the end of last week. Then we met this morning (day of the group) to discuss how to run it and between 10-12 earlier today successfully run our very first ND and the menopause support group. AND 157 PEOPLE WERE PRESENT. AND IT WAS UTTERLY MAGNIFICENT. Such amazing feedback. Clare as always spoke passionately and honestly about her experiences. She was and is truly inspiring. Needless to say. It went so well......we will be doing it again. We'll have to consider something outside the wider policing world. So watch this space!!!! I think this also demonstrates the many joys of ADHD. No one can wing it like us! #neurodiversity #menopause #adhd

Tuesday 14th January - Menopause and Neurodiversity Support Group [Police only] - Please check your inboxes. We have sent an email today about a menopause and neurodiversity support group. This contains a link for registration, you can also sign up to our forum and we have posted a link there. Since the ADHD Alliance was created in February 2022, one of the most common enquiries and requests for help and information has come from women experiencing the effects of ADHD (and/or other neurodivergent conditions) and the menopause. This group provides a safe space to bring people together to share their experiences, offer peer support, and provide practical advice. The meeting will be facilitated by DC Daley Jones, Co-Chair of the ADHD Alliance, and Inspector Clare Preston-Davies, MSc (Dist) of Derbyshire Constabulary, who is also the head of Derbyshire’s ND network. This group isn’t just for people currently experiencing ADHD and menopause. It’s for women, partners of women, colleagues, line managers, and friends of women who may go through this in the future. Please join us to raise awareness and support our colleagues and loved ones.

I am immensely proud to be putting the finishing touches to our very first "neurodiversity and the menopause support group" for police officers and police staff. Since the ADHD Alliance was created in Feb 2022 one of the common enquiries and requests for help and info has come from women who are experiencing the twin affects of ADHD (and or other neurodivergent conditions) and the menopause. I have been doing everything in my power to support these women for the last year. I am eternally grateful to the incredible Clare Preston-Davies, MSc (Dist) for talking about this subject during a webinar in October as part of our ADHD Awareness month talks. I am delighted to say she will be joining us again for the first (hopefully of many) support group meetings. I can't pretend to know a great deal about this subject. But what I can do is try to create a safe space for people to talk, and support eachother. Outside policing, would a support group for this topic be of interest? #adhd #menopause #supportgroup

A few days ago we launched the new ADHD Alliance forum. If you are a serving staff or officer in any police force across the country, send Carl a message or email [email protected] for access. You will need to sign up using your work email address.

On this Christmas Eve we wanted to wish all of our members and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!?We hope that?you are looking forward to some rest and relaxation over the festive period. We are so grateful for the support that we have received from you this year, everyone that runs the ADHD Alliance is a volunteer and so many of you give up so much of your time to support others. We are looking forward to 2025 and what this brings, we will be looking to launch our new website in the first part of the year which we believe will transform the support available throughout the country. We want to wish you, your family and loved ones a very merry festive period. If you are working I hope it is relatively peaceful and you are able to spend some quality time with the people who means the most to you. Lots of love (and a biblical amount of "its ok its Xmas" chocolate), Daley, Alex,?Carl, Sveva, Hannah, Tash & the ADHD Alliance Ambassadors