Contains information to help you find advice regarding personal and sexual problems.

Finding help

There are three kinds of organisation you can talk to:

Those welcoming everyone needing guidance.

Those specialising in helping all disabled people with their relationships;

Those dedicated to particular disabilities

For everyone

Your GP can discuss your personal and sexual problems with you, then refer you to the experts
within the NHS or to an NHS family planning clinic if necessary.

Brook Advisory Centres welcome disabled people up to the age 25 at centres around the
country, and they have a confidential information/helpline service (see below).
Commonly known just as Brook  -the only national voluntary sector provider of free and
confidential sexual health advice and services specifically for young people under 25.
Brook is a registered charity, and has 40 years' experience of providing professional
advice through specially trained doctors, nurses, counsellors, and outreach and information
workers to over 200,000 young people each year.

Brook is the trading name of Brook Advisory Centres. Limited Company Registered in
England and Wales Number 813847. Registered Charity Number 239966.

address is:
421 Highgate Studios
53-79 Highgate Road
London
NW5 1TL
website: http://www.brook.org.uk/

Helpline Tel: 0800 0185 023 (Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm).

The Family Planning Association - provides a nation-wide information and education service on
all aspects of contraception and sexual health. The FPA can also give details of your nearest
source of family planning help and advice. UK-wide helpline Tel: 0845 122 8690 - 9am to 6pm - Monday to Friday
website:  http://www.fpa.org.uk/

Relate offers counselling to adult couples with relationship difficulties whether or not they are
married.
Relate offers a wide range of services for couples, families and individuals. They support
people through all stages of their relationships and you can access their support on your
own or with others, face-to-face, on the phone or on the internet.
They deliver services all over England, Wales and Northern Ireland at over 600 locations
as well as by phone and online. Wherever you are help from Relate is available nearby.
call 0300 100 1234 to find your nearest Relate.
website:  http://www.relate.org.uk/

For all disabled people

EnabledAready.com
http://www.enabledalready.com
EnabledAlready.com is a dating and friendship site for disabled people in the UK and
Ireland. Whatever your disability join for free and meet new people online in your area.

The Association to Aid the Sexual and Personal Relationships of People with a Disability
(formerly SPOD) is the national organisation providing publications and information.
It has a country-wide network of counsellors and may be able to put you in touch with
someone you can talk to locally. It provides:

An information and counselling service for disabled people,
their partners or carers having sexual or relationship difficulties;

An information service for workers among disabled people;

Education and training on various aspects of sexuality

A range of helpful publications. Tel: 0207 607 8851
Website : http://www.spod-uk.org

For people with particular disabilities

DISCERN
is based in Nottinghamshire, with its Head Office in Mansfield. DISCERN offers a unique
counselling service to disabled people, people with disabling conditions or with learning
difficulties and their carers/partners who wish to receive counselling in the area of personal
relationships, emotional issues and/or sexuality. The counselling service is free to anyone
living in Nottinghamshire and is open to single people and couples. DISCERN offers an
information and education service. Group workshops are available if required. Our
information service is a key resource for many students and professionals from a variety
of backgrounds. Volunteer counsellors have access to our library of specialised literature.
DISCERN has a training service which provides statutory and voluntary agencies with free
professional staff training in the area of sexuality and disability. Vvolunteer counsellors
receive free specialised in house training and the opportunity to gain British Association
for Counselling accreditation through hours of face to face counselling with our clients.
DISCERN promotes the belief that everybody has a right to a sexual identity, regardless

of disability, age, race, gender etc.
Contact:
Mrs Angela Carter
01623 623732
discern@btclick.com

Spinal Injuries Association has welfare counselling services which provide counselling and
advice to help solve problems, including personal and sexual ones, and put people in
touch with one another. The SIA produces a range of publications about sexual issues
and newsletter in which readers discuss matters regularly and fully.

Freephone Advice Line: 08009800501 (Weekdays from 9:30am to 1pm and 2pm to 4:30pm)
website: http://www.spinal.co.uk/

Young Arthritis Care is for people under 45 with arthritis. It has a nationwide network of
over 80 contacts, all of them young people with arthritis. Contact Arthritis Care Helpline:
Tel 0808 800 4050

Genetic Interest Group (GIG) is concerned with issues of genetic disordres and
co-ordinates groups specialising in particular disorders. Its information service
provides addresses where people who are worried about passing on a disability
to the next generation can find help locally. Tel: 020 7704 3141

Deafs.com
This site offers you the chance to share your values and life experiences, friendship
and possibly love. You can talk with new and old friends about deaf or ASL issues,
relationships, cultures, religions, work, sports, lives and more. And develop relationships
that can last a lifetime.
http://www.deafs.com/

Relate, the Family Planning Association (FPA), Headway, ASBAH, The Huntington’s
Disease Association, the Stroke Association and the Spinal Injuries Association are
amongst the organisations producing helpful publications.

Sexuality Booklets (Heterosexual Woman, Heterosexual Man, Lesbian, Gay Man)
Spinal Injuries Association £6 each or £20 set of four.

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