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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.
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Dr Chloe Farahar (they/she) | Aucademy CIC © Dr Chloe Farahar. Please credit when sharing. For permissions, contact au-cademy@outlook.com Every year, Neurodiversity Celebration Week arrives with its rainbow banners and its infinity symbols, its acknowledgements of Autistic people, its nods to ADHD and dyslexia. And every year, I find myself returning to the same question:…
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