My Life Your Job

My Life Your Job follows directly from the findings of the Calling the Shots project.

This project aims to raise awareness about Human Rights issues by training people with a learning disability to become trainers and assisting them to develop and deliver Human Rights training to other people with a learning disability and their supporters.

ARC is working with the Glenmore Trust and United Response to deliver this around England.

My Life Your Job will:

  • train people with learning disabilities to be trainers.
  • deliver awareness raising sessions to other community groups about the human rights of people with learning disabilities.
  • increase knowledge of human rights amongst people with learning disabilities and their supporters and improve the quality of services they receive.
  • train some trainers to be coaches.

The coaches will support people who have done the Human Rights training and feel that they need some support or additional information on a certain issue or choice.

Twelve new trainers from Cumbria and Lancashire have been trained using the My Life Your Job Train the Trainer programme. In April 2010 the newly qualified trainers designed a Human Rights training programme, which they are currently delivering to people with learning disabilities and their supporters.

We would like the My Life Your Job project to:

  • deliver Human Rights training for people with learning disabilities across the country and possibly seek accreditation by the NOCN (National Open College Network).
  • continue to increase awareness of human rights amongst people with learning disabilities and their supporters giving people more confidence to stand up for their rights and enable them to tell their staff how they want to be supported.

My Life Your Job is funded by the Department of Health