It’s Mental Health Awareness Day. Do you know Autonomie’s What Next? Project supported by The National Lottery Community Fund NI key focus is to promote Positive Mental Health in young people living with additional needs!
Empowering young people with additional needs with short-stay living experiences at Lilac House
Our What Next? programme in partnership with The Big Lottery Fund Northern Ireland offers young people living with additional needs access to vital Independent Living skills training.
A key focus of the programme offers young people between 19 and 25-years-old a chance to experience short-term stays at our modern and fully accessible centre Lilac House (Linked Independent Living and Advice Centre) in the heart of South Belfast.
Multi-sensory activities and learning about our peers additional needs for What Next? programme participants
Champions! Today and this week for Volunteers Week we are celebrating our amazing volunteers
Champions! Today and this week for #VolunteersWeek we are celebrating our amazing volunteers.
At Autonomie, we actively encourage young people who take part in our programmes to become volunteers.
We offer structured opportunities for young people to volunteer and mentor their peers, volunteer on our Youth Forum, as well as opportunities to help lead activities programmes planning and delivery.
Young people are at the heart of everything we do!
Achievements of young people we support celebrated at recent special event at La Mon Hotel and Country Club
Young people with disabilities who have taken part in a huge range of activities on our programmers had their achievements recognised at the Strictly Our Achievements Celebration Event.
Held at La Mon Hotel and Country Club (5 April), the event celebrated the achievements of young people we support.
Special message of thanks to all who helped make Strictly Our Achievements Celebration Event a success
Huge thanks to everyone who made the Strictly Our Achievements Celebration Event a success yesterday, especially the young people who not only were involved in the event planning right from the start but those too involved in the delivery of the event - you were all the stars of the show yesterday evening, especially Stephanie for your beautiful solo performance of All of Me by John Legend.
