Disabilities

Community Team - Adult Learning Disability Services - Vale of York

The Vale of York community learning disabilities team is a multidisciplinary service that is co-located with City of York Council learning disability care management team.

The team provide a range of specialist advice, support and interventions to people with Learning Disabilities across York, Selby, Easingwold and Tadcaster. The service has an open referral system and has a single point of access at Systems House.

The team provides assessment, treatment, therapy and consultation from a range of skilled professionals to enable specialist health interventions to be delivered in the community to reduce the need for admission to specialist learning disability acute in-patient services.

The service aims to improve access to mainstream services and promote service user held health management plans working in collaboration with the individual, their family, carers and other organisations. The service also provides specialist health input where mainstream services cannot, for example, positive behaviour support plans or specialist learning disability mental health assessments.

The Vale of York community learning disabilities team can be contacted on 01904 528300.

Information about the Vale of York community learning disabilities team can be viewed in Easy Read by downloading the Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities leaflet.

Acquired Brain Injury

Headway is the UK-wide charity that works to improve life after brain injury. Through its network of more than 125 groups and branches across the UK, it provides support, services and information to brain injury survivors, their families and carers, as well as to professionals in the health and legal fields. There is a York Headway branch.

Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) has a local provision, York House which is registered as an independent hospital. The service is provided by The Disabilities Trust in partnership with The Retreat, a specialist mental health provider.

York House is a specialist neurobehavioural assessment and post-acute rehabilitation hospital for people with acquired brain injury (ABI) and complex needs and / or challenging behaviour.

They specialise in the rehabilitation of people who are experiencing behavioural disorders following a brain injury. Individuals may also have severe cognitive, physical and / or emotional problems including verbal and physical aggression, impaired social functioning, disinhibited behaviours and neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Their goal is to enable service users to function as independently as possible, develop their lives as they choose and participate in the wider community.

Live Well York has a Community Activities Directory,  the “who” filters on the directory will help to find suitable inclusive community groups and activities