Value Proposition:
We want to improve the mental health of autistic young people.
Position Statement:
Empowering the vulnerable by being caringly curious
Igniting power, brightening futures
Vision:
See a world where young people no longer self-harm for their emotion dysregulation issues.
Mission:
Listening to understand distress and listening to respond to stigma, enabling CYP to feel valued and empowered, facilitating communities to be resilient and skilful.
Our Values are:
CRÈME
Curiosity- We are always internally inquisitive about our approach and curious about how we can grow and improve to better support our CYP
Real- We will be 100% real, raw and honest. We are all a work in progress but we owe it to our CYP to manage expectations...No BS allowed!
Empathy- We all acknowledge and respond to the pain that emotion dysreg causes to ASD CYP and their families, we always act with compassion
Meaning- We move away from "helper-helpee" relationships and move towards hope-based collaboration and learning together
Empowerment- The best until last! Each young person using the service will feel they know their worth, can define their future and own their power.
EDA is a newly registered charity, aiming to provide a psychologically-informed peer support service for autistic young people suffering with emotion dysregulation ( difficulty in communicating emotions, leading to self-harm and mental distress)
We also deliver youth-led social action workshops to the community to educate about emotion regulation skills to places of worship, police stations and childrens residential homes.