THE CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR FOUNDATION 

The Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF) works to ensure people with severe learning disabilities whose behaviours challenge, and those who care for and support them, have their needs met. This ....more

The Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF) works to ensure people with severe learning disabilities whose behaviours challenge, and those who care for and support them, have their needs met. This grant will contribute to CBF’s work to support young people with severe learning disabilities between the ages of 14 and 25 who are transitioning from child to adult services across their information and support, strategic influencing, and sharing best practice activities.

Challenging Behaviour Foundation - YP in policy

Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift

This project will empower children and young people from Chatham, Kent to deliver Social Action in their community

Young people in policy making

Core Funding

We are looking for bids that provide support in the following ways:Supporting the mental health needs of children, young people and adults with learning disability and autistic individuals who may ....more

We are looking for bids that provide support in the following ways:Supporting the mental health needs of children, young people and adults with learning disability and autistic individuals who may struggle to access ordinarily available supportSupporting autistic children, young people and adults those with a learning disability to access appropriate health care and support and supporting individuals to access annual health checksSupporting autistic children, young people and adults and those with a learning disability when facing crisis to prevent admission to inpatient mental health careSupporting parent carers, family members and carers who have been affected and impacted by COVID-19.Providing information, advice and support for children, young people, adults and their parent carers, families and paid carers about their rights to care, support and treatment.On 27 March 2021, the Government published a COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing recovery action plan. The plan sets out their actions to prevent, mitigate and respond to the mental health impacts of the pandemic during 2021 to 2022.The plan gives details of how the £500million, announced in the Spending Review, to support recovery of the Long-Term Plan ambitions for mental health will be allocated. Whilst recovery across all mental health services should ensure it is considering the needs of individuals with learning disability and autistic people, and making reasonable adjustments, £31m has been specifically allocated to support specific Learning Disability and Autism projects and is one-off, non-recurrent money for 2021/22£31 million to address particular challenges faced by individuals with a learning disability and autistic people, who are struggling with their mental health, and to support faster discharge from mental health settings back into the community. Specifically, funding will be used to address the diagnostic backlog in autism services and investment in early identification and intervention, to prevent children and young people with learning disability, autism or both, escalating into crisis. This will also include strengthening good quality inpatient care, with particular support to enable step down and discharge for those with the most complex needs

Core Funding

CBF Family Support Service

Support for people dealing with challenging behaviour in children during the CV19 pandemic.

Grant to Challenging Behaviour Foundation meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.

Support for people with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs

towards unrestricted core costs as as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant

The grant funding provided a period of support for charities providing vital services to ensure they could meet increased demand as a result of COVID-19, while continuing their day-to-day activities ....more

The grant funding provided a period of support for charities providing vital services to ensure they could meet increased demand as a result of COVID-19, while continuing their day-to-day activities to help those in need, up to the end of October 2021. Each organisation was either:Providing key services specific to supporting the Covid-19 response, to reduce burden on the NHS or other public services; orProviding critical frontline services to vulnerable groups affected by Covid-19 and associated measures (ie. social-distancing) (must outline the characteristics that make those groups vulnerable).

The Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF) is the only UK charity for people with severe learning disabilities who display behaviour described as challenging. The organisation will use funding to ....more

The Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF) is the only UK charity for people with severe learning disabilities who display behaviour described as challenging. The organisation will use funding to increase the number of families feeling empowered to improve the quality of life of their relative and reduce levels of challenging behaviour. The majority of funding will be used to cover salaries, as well as other general running costs.

TPP4 - Learning Disabilities - Supporting Families

The funding will support a contribution towards supporting the Family Support Service and in particular the Family Support Caseworker who provides individual and family support to those transitioning ....more

The funding will support a contribution towards supporting the Family Support Service and in particular the Family Support Caseworker who provides individual and family support to those transitioning into an independent accommodation.

Towards core salary and project costs for work to improve outcomes for people with severe learning disabilities.

Supporting You: Our Information and Support Service for Families caring for children and adults with severe learning disabilities whose behaviours challenge

Supports children and adults with severe learning disabilities with behaviour challenges by providing information, advice and workshops for families and carers.

The charity provides support to families with a child displaying challenging behaviour. The funding will support the family support work project and ensure continued advocacy for families.

Towards the costs of a sustained campaign of pressure to ensure that the policy changes and practical recommendations following the abuses of disabled people at Winterbourne View are implemented.

This England wide project will enable The Challenging Behaviour Foundation to continue to provide and further develop a support network for families caring for individuals with severe learning ....more

This England wide project will enable The Challenging Behaviour Foundation to continue to provide and further develop a support network for families caring for individuals with severe learning disabilities with challenging behaviour. Volunteers will offer support to thousands of families by answering questions or queries, providing information and giving high quality practical support. The national e-mail network and individual telephone support will be supplemented by a Facebook presence.

towards three years' running costs of a support and information service for carers of young people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour across the UK