Alliance for cohesion and racial equality (Acre)
Alafia provides a pro-active outreach advice and guidance service for some of the most hard to reach families in Reading. Acre’s Family Support Team works with BME families caring for children between ages 0-25 with disabilities or additional needs.
- Provide advice and guidance on a variety of issues, including but not exclusive: Housing, Benefits, Special Educational Needs Provision, Crisis Disability Grants, UK education, and welfare landscape
- Reduce health inequality by encouraging Healthy Lifestyles including reducing Obesity, and promoting exercise and BME high risk health issues (diabetes, prostate cancer, bowel cancer screening)
- Provide short breaks for children and opportunities for parents to meet other Carers from the same cultural and linguistic backgrounds to offer peer support. This reduces disability stigma and social isolation
- Empower families to meet and mix across different cultural backgrounds
Contact information
- Website
- Facebook: Alliance for Cohesion and Racial Equality - Acre
- Scan to visit this website
- Telephone
- 01189510279 01189510279
- info@acre-reading.org
- Contact Us
- Contact Us Form
- Social Media
Location
- Name
- The Community Centre
- Address
-
344, Oxford Road
Reading
- Postcode
- RG30 1AF
- View RG30 1AF on a map
Facilities and Accessibility
- Facilities
- Wheelchair access
Accessing this service
- Eligibility Criteria
Black or minority ethnic families with a child with special educational needs and/or disabilities aged 0 to 25
Provision For
- Supporting people with
- Children with Additional Needs
Quality Assurance
- Registered Charity No.
- 1149491
Local Offer - Support available for children and young people with additional needs
- Description
Alafia provides a pro-active outreach advice and guidance service for some of the most hard to reach families in Reading. Acre’s Family Support Team works with BME families caring for children between ages 0-25 with disabilities or additional needs.
- Provide advice and guidance on a variety of issues, including but not exclusive: Housing, Benefits, Special Educational Needs Provision, Crisis Disability Grants, UK education, and welfare landscape
- Reduce health inequality by encouraging Healthy Lifestyles including reducing Obesity, and promoting exercise and BME high risk health issues (diabetes, prostate cancer, bowel cancer screening)
- Provide short breaks for children and opportunities for parents to meet other Carers from the same cultural and linguistic backgrounds to offer peer support. This reduces disability stigma and social isolation
- Empower families to meet and mix across different cultural backgrounds
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