Service categories: Extra-curricular and leisure activities, Support groups, social programs and branches

Service URL: https://gr0ve.org/

SERVICES (available via EHCP, EOTAS/EOTIS/Personal Budget or funded privately):

• MENTORING
• INTEREST-BASED GROUPS
• 'BEING ME’ - a unique programme helping young people understand autism

GROVE is a genuinely neuro-affirming, online community for Autistic young people, operating from in the UK but available worldwide. All Mentors are Autistic, with deep knowledge of Autistic experience, current theory and practice and a firm rejection of the medical model framing of autism. The team holds PGCerts, BAs, MAs and PhDs in autism.

We support young people by enabling safe and authentic connection and a sense of belonging both with individual, well-being and interest-based mentoring and also in groups with other Autistic young people.

We also offer our flagship 'BEING ME' programme to help with self-understanding, self-esteem and strategies for well-being (some may call this 'post-diagnostic support').

Please visit our website for more information.

Aimed at: Adolescent , Child , Child/adolescent sibling, Children under the age of 12 years, School, Young person

Referral Sources: Education, Yourself

Covers: Cambridgeshire, East Midlands, East of England, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber, Guernsey Health Authority, Isle of Man, Jersey Health Authority, Sark Health Authority, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Ards and North Down, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Belfast, Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh, Lisburn and Castlereagh, Mid and East Antrim, Mid Ulster, Newry, Mourne and Down, South Belfast area, Ayrshire and Arran, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Forth Valley, Grampian, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Highland, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Orkney, Shetland, Tayside, Western Isles, Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, City of Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee City, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow City, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, Na h-Eileanan Siar, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney Islands, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, Shetland Islands, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian, Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham

Specialisms: Autism, Autism and Neurodivergent , Exclusively autism specific, Staff and volunteers get autism awareness training

Other specialisms: GROVE's Director holds a Masters in Autism (distinction) and our specialist Autistic Mentors have a range of qualifications including PGCert, BA, MA and even PhD's in Autistic experience.