News: Thought piece

Thera East Anglia is paving the way across Thera for getting people with a learning disability into supported employment. Supported employment can help you to become part of the community, gain confidence and skills, and live a more equal life.

Oliver Smith, Service Quality Director for The Camden Society, explains the importance of building culture within their community.

For Advocacy Awareness week, Ian Harper, Service Quality Director for Aspire Living, explains how advocacy has played a role in his success.

Jordan Allan, Service Quality Director for Thera (Scotland) recently visited a local school to talk about his life experiences as someone with lived experience of a learning disability.

Experts from Thera explain their own experiences with advocacy and why it is vital in todays society.

Advocacy Awareness Week shines a light on the incredible effects that advocacy can have on peoples lives. We have spoke with several members of Thera’s team to discuss the important role advocacy has played in their lives and to ask the question – What is Advocacy?

In this blog, we share an update from Omar, supported by Unity Work’s Work Train Greenwich Supported Employment Programme, who works in Greenwich.

Sam is supported by Unity Works, Work Train Greenwich and has paid work as a Quality Checker with Advocacy in Greenwich as well as People's Parliament MP for Royal Borough of Greenwich. In this guest blog post, Sam gives an insight into his current jobs.

In this blog we share stories from people with a learning disability about their life and relationships in support of Learning Disability Week.

We sat down and spoke with Sam Maggs at Gig Buddies with Thera Trust about the importance of accessible events.