Our regional teams provide a local point of contact for professional advice and services.
How can regional teams help?
Our regional teams are your first point of contact in each region. They:
- deliver our hugely popular help! programmes to families and carers
- support our branches in their activities, which include providing support to families of children and adults with autism, organising fundraising and awareness-raising activities and lobbying for better provision from local authorities
- work in partnership with other groups and organisations
- work with representatives from local authorities in the regions, raising awareness about the needs of people with autism and their families, giving advice about provision, sitting on inter-agency forums and working parties
- organise regional events, where representatives from local branches, other parents' groups, autism professionals and service providers come together to provide a strong, broad-based local voice for autism
- facilitate 'Partners in Autism', a strategic forum for major autism-specific providers to develop a joint regional plan for future services and support
- represent the NAS on a variety of campaigning and lobbying organisations across the voluntary and disability sectors
- support the NAS national campaigns at local level
- are involved in developing and managing specific projects, which often involves bidding for tenders and grants from local authorities' joint finance funds, the National Lottery funds and other organisations
- sometimes provide training on behalf of the NAS Training Department based on their professional experience of working with people with autism, and provide consultancy to other organisations working with people with autism.