We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our multi-disciplinary team.
Support and advice for parent carers
June 5-11 is Carers’ Week. As a parent carer, feeling supported and having someone you can ask questions of, get advice from, or just vent your frustrations to, is so important.
If you’re a parent carer of a child or adult with cerebral palsy, here are some places to get support and advice:
- The CP Support (Scotland) Facebook group has over 700 members and is an amazing group to get and share advice with other parent carers:
- Your local Carer centre will be able to support you in lots of different ways and maybe can put you in touch with local parent carers.
- Our Cerebral Palsy Support Coordinator is a listening ear, advising people with cerebral palsy and their families about services and organisations that can support them. To get in touch with her, please contact us.
- Our Support directory lists lots of organisations and services available in Scotland that can support you and your family.
- There are six national carer organisations (NCOs) in Scotland. All offer support, advice and campaign for carers.
- For a podcast, try The Skies We’re Under: Parenting disabled children with Rachel Wright.
More information and resources are also available on the Carers’ Week website.
Read our latest news and stories
Our spring newsletter is packed with stories about how your support is helping children and adults with cerebral palsy in Scotland reach their full potential, as well as all the latest news from Cerebral Palsy Scotland.
“Without Cerebral Palsy Scotland the world would be a much more challenging place”
In this edition, Zoe shares her experiences of accessing specialist therapy at Cerebral Palsy Scotland. She talks about how the team here have really helped her physically and mentally since she had two hip replacement operations.
“I definitely learned things I would never have thought of doing”
We also hear from Kerin. Her daughter Mirren came to outreach sessions that our therapy team ran in Dumfries late last year. Kerin was able to learn skills to help support Mirren develop her standing and use her right side to play with toys.
March is cerebral palsy awareness month and our newsletter also updates you on our social media campaign to raise the voices of people with cerebral palsy in Scotland. There’s also a round-up of our latest campaigning and policy work, as well as upcoming fundraising events you can get involved with.
March is cerebral palsy awareness month
March is cerebral palsy awareness month.
This year, we will be sharing content created by people from the cerebral palsy community in Scotland throughout the month of March on our social media channels and website.
Cerebral palsy awareness month is an opportunity to raise the voices of people of all ages with experience of cerebral palsy across Scotland, raise awareness of cerebral palsy, show the diversity of the cerebral palsy community and share what matters to our community!
How can you take part?
- Look out for cerebral palsy awareness month content throughout March on our Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and LinkedIn channels.
- Like, share and add your comments, so that as many people as possible see the content and we can raise awareness of cerebral palsy.
- Create your own content on social media for cerebral palsy awareness month – be sure and tag us using the hashtags #TeamCPScot and #CerebralPalsyAwarenessMonth
- You can also get moving for March by joining our Walk ‘n’ Roll virtual challenge. Set yourself a challenge in a way that works for you – using your wheelchair or powerchair, walking frame, frame running bike, trike, feet, or body! The Walk ‘n’ Roll challenge will help to raise vital funds to power our work so that every person with cerebral palsy in Scotland can reach their full potential.
What services do you want to see at Cerebral Palsy Scotland?
We want to make sure we’re offering the cerebral palsy community services you really want and need and that make a positive difference to your life.
Please complete our short survey so we can find out what services, support or information people with cerebral palsy and their families find the most valuable.
We want children and adults to take part
We want to hear from you if you have cerebral palsy, or you care for someone with cerebral palsy.
The survey is designed so that it can be completed by children or adults. We want to hear everyone’s views.
Please be as forthright as you want to be with us – we want to get this right for you.
We want to hear from as many people as possible, so please share the survey link with people you know or on your own social media channels.
How to complete the survey
The survey can be filled in online and should take you about 10 minutes to complete. Click on the link below to start.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your views.
If you have any questions, please call us on 0141 352 5000 or email info@cpscot.org.uk.