Awareness Campaigns
Welcome to the dedicated awareness campaigns section of your Compass portal. Here, you can find the previous campaigns we’ve supported and the upcoming ones we will support at Thornbury Community Services (TCS).
At TCS, we’re committed to supporting awareness events throughout the year that celebrate inclusivity and showcase the diversity of our clients, healthcare professionals, and employees.
By raising awareness, we can educate more individuals and call to action the issues each campaign aims to address.
Upcoming campaigns we’ll be supporting this year
Below you can find out about the key upcoming campaigns we’re supporting this year.
World Mental Health Day
10th of October
World Mental Health Day is a global celebration that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues worldwide. The day provides an opportunity to discuss mental health issues and what people can do to encourage others to seek guidance and support for their mental health.
UK Disability History Month
16th November – 16th of December
UK Disability History Month is a significant campaign focusing on the history of disabled people across the UK and their contributions. The day is an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the diversity of people with disabilities, whether visible or hidden, and raise awareness of the different ways to support them.
Nursing Support Workers’ Day
23rd of November
Nursing Support Workers’ Day celebrates care assistants, support workers, healthcare assistants, and nursing associates and the vital role they all play in the care patients and clients receive. The day also shines a light on the importance of their roles, skills, and knowledge they bring to the healthcare industry and how they are a significant part of all care settings, including communities, hospitals, and clinics.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
3rd of December
International Day of Persons with Disabilities raises awareness about issues people with disabilities face. It promotes the importance of creating an inclusive and accessible society for all and how it can provide many benefits and opportunities for everyone, enabling people with disabilities to feel part of their community and heard.
Campaigns we’ve supported this year
Below, you can find out about the key campaigns we’ve supported this year.
Learning Disability Week
17th of June – 23rd of June
Learning Disability Week is a week-long campaign that celebrates the contributions people with learning disabilities make to society. The theme for 2024 was ‘Do you see me?’, which focuses on challenging the barriers people with learning disabilities face and ensuring they are seen, heard, and valued.
We’ve supported this significant campaign and its theme by asking a few of our support workers how they ensure our clients are seen, heard, and valued at TCS and what our clinical leads enjoy most about working in the Learning Disabilities, Autism, and Mental Health Service as a clinical lead.
Take a look below to see if you recognise any of your colleagues or clinical leads.
By listening to our clients, we can communicate more effectively to ensure he has the best quality of life. Over the past year, our clients has visited the cinema every month. We have taught him the months of the year and that he can go to exciting and fun places. We manage any obstacle together to ensure it is an enjoyable experience. We now have a movie board in his home for all the films that come out for the year.
An important part of my role at TCS is ensuring our client has a voice. This means finding creative and bespoke ways to share their thoughts and feelings. We use many tools to support this, including written language dictionaries, social stories, and creating a video for the client around communication. It is incredible how much the client’s communication has improved during my time caring for him, and I cannot wait to find new ways to help him communicate more and share his thoughts with us.
I love my role as an RNLD Clinical Lead because it allows me to support our clients in the community and oversee their care delivered by our passionate healthcare professionals. I witness our clients lead a better quality of life under the supervision of the TCS teams, and it’s incredibly rewarding.
What makes me proud to be a Learning Disability Nurse and an RNLD Clinical Lead at TCS is that I play an active role in changing people’s lives. My role allows me to take a holistic view of our clients and create bespoke action plans to enable them to maximise their full potential.
Pride
1st of June – 30th of June
Pride takes place yearly to pay tribute to the 1969 Stonewall Riots and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, their achievements and contributions to history worldwide.
The month-long event brings people together through parades, marches and discussions to provide LGBTQ+ individuals, friends, family and loved ones to come together to celebrate, share stories and raise awareness.
International Nurses Day
12th of May
International Nurses Day celebrates nurses globally and acknowledges their achievements and contributions. The campaign takes place every year on the 12th of May to coincide with Florence Nightingale’s birthday. This year’s theme was ‘The economic power of care’, which focuses on raising awareness of how investing in nursing can provide many economic and societal benefits worldwide.
To celebrate our community nurses on International Nurses Day emails were sent on Sunday 12th of May, wishing them a very happy International Nurses Day and thanking them for the ‘Outstanding’ CQC-rated care they deliver to our clients in the community.
For nurses who worked 50+ shifts with us, they will have received personalised emails highlighting the hours of care they’ve delivered to our clients in the community since they first joined us.