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Aucademy CIC: current projects


2025+: Aucademy’s Dr Chloe Farahar is Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust’s Project Manager for Learning Disability and Autism. This role involves leading the programme plan to transform mental health care for Autistic people and people with a learning disability in Kent and Medway, which will involve improvement activities such as training and development, working with lived experts, creating new pathways to care, and input on and creation of policies and strategy.


Hear from Dr Chloe here, talking about their role:

To find out more about the Kent and Medway Programme Plan for Autistic people and people with a learning disability, and to subscribe to updates or to take part in activities as they happen, head here: https://aucademy.co.uk/2026/01/26/transforming-care-in-kent-medway/


2023+: “A contract to develop the second interactive webinar and in-person components of the training has been awarded to a local partnership led by bemix, a social enterprise co-led by people with a learning disability, with Aucademy CIC, a team of Autistic educators, and Kent Autistic Trust. The partnership will engage health and care providers…with training scheduled to be available from April 2025.”

Kent and Medway Integrated Care System: Announcing the contract was awarded to the Aucademy CIC; Kent Autistic Trust; Bemix partnership


2024/25: “Kent and Medway Partnership Trust are proud to be collaborating with Aucademy CIC to bring to Kent & Medway four webinars in 2024/25 on up-to-date and relevant topics to support our goal to Transform Autistic Healthcare.”

As part of this work, Dr Chloe created an open access page on how to start building your profile and how to self-advocate for your needs.



Dr Farahar’s brief video on neurodiversity inclusive teaching for mixed-neurology classes

ONE: Aucademy bitesize: Autistic basics: What is “autism” & what is Autistic experience?

Dr Chloe Farahar and fellow presenters and educators David Gray-Hammond and Tigger Pritchard ask: “Have *you* been accepted by an Autistic person?”

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Sign up to updates, or get involved, with the Kent & Medway Mental Health NHS Trust: Learning Disability & Autism Programme – Transforming Care in Kent & Medway

Find out about the Kent & Medway Mental Health NHS Trust (KMMH): Learning Disability & Autism Programme, which is actively working to transform Care in Kent & Medway. About the Programme Lead: Dr Chloe Farahar (they/she) is an Autistic academic, researcher, and educator. They are the KMMH Project Manager for the Learning Disability & Autism Programme,…

Out now! Our Aucademy interview special: The Doctor, The Poet, & The Reverend. Tom Delahunt talks about his ADHD life and his search for neurodivergent people to share space with

2-hour interview special now available on our YouTube channel! The Doctor, The Poet, & The Reverend: Aucademy Educates. ADHD, discovery journeys, & finding neurodivergent others In this Aucademy special, Dr Chloe Farahar (they/she) talks with Tom Delahunt (AKA The HoboPoet, he/him) and Reverend Lizzie Hopthrow (she/her) in The Quiet View yurt just outside Canterbury. CONTENT…

Trailer: The Doctor, the Poet, & the Reverend. Tom Delahunt talks about his ADHD life and his search for neurodivergent people to share space with. Due to be released Wed 3rd Dec 2025

The full, 2 hour interview special released NOW! on our YouTube channel, 14:00, Wednesday the 3rd of December, 2025! Video out now! https://youtu.be/dAtUmtRun_8 And find a written call-and-response piece between Tom and Chloe, here https://aucademy.co.uk/2025/11/19/sharing-the-canopy/ Original trailer:

What are the outcomes for the Autism Act 2009 review, held 2025?

Aucademy’s Dr Chloe Farahar was invited to a closed session to contribute to the Autism Act 2009 review, held between April and June 2025 – and we wrote about what their session discussed, here, and the more detailed Westminster meeting notes and questions asked can be found here. In this blog, we summarise what the…

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