This webinar is online on Zoom
Book your place
To book a place please email events@imroc.org with “Peer Support in Learning Disability communities” in the subject line.
This webinar is about Peer Support in Learning Disability communities.
We will talk about:
Different experiences of employing and supporting LD peer support workers within NHS services.
Imroc’s pilot of Peer Support Worker training for adults with LD.
What it has been like to go through the training and be employed as a Peer Support Worker.
We will share experiences from around the country of employing and supporting LD peer support workers within NHS services. We will also explore how best to train LD peer workers, introducing Imroc’s pilot of LD-specific Peer Support Worker training, designed to be accessible, flexible, and co-produced, and explore how organisations can create the conditions for high-quality, relational, compassionate, and affirming peer support.
We will reflect on the unique strengths, skills, and lived experience within the LD community, and how these can be meaningfully recognised and embedded into services.
As always, we will set clear expectations for participation—centering respect, openness, and a commitment to valuing lived experience as expertise.
What to Expect:
An introduction to peer support in Learning Disability services and why it matters.
Important points from research and practice, including benefits for individuals, peer workers, and organisations
An overview of Imroc’s LD Peer Support Worker training pilot (accessible, flexible, co-produced design)
Real-scenario reflections on challenges to introducing LD peer support and how to overcome them (e.g. accessibility, role clarity, organisational readiness)
Practical ideas for organisations wanting to develop or expand lived experience roles
We will talk about what meaningful inclusion looks like in practice
We will answer questions sent before the Webinar.
Who is the webinar for?
Organisations who want to expand or develop lived experience roles within LD services
Adults with learning disabilities interested in peer support worker roles
Practitioners, commissioners, and leaders working in or alongside Learning Disability services
Anyone interested in co-production, inclusion, and peer-led approaches
Benefits of attending:
Join us to fully understand, appreciate and reflect on the skill sets, qualities and abilities inherent within the Learning Disabilities (LD) community. Explore how Imroc’s pilot LD specific Peer support worker training can anchor and empower this community through a needs-led, flexible, coproduced training offer that can support realisation of high quality, relational, compassionate and affirming peer support for the LD community.
Speakers
Stacy Cooper
Lead for coproduction and lived experience
I love to watch a good box set under a blanket (even in the summer).
Daisy Dexter
Imroc Consultant
I have 3 dogs and a tortoise and I love camping.
Gordon Cairns
I'm Gordon, I'm a peer support worker and I like listening to Metal music
Richard Barlow
Peer support worker
Robyn Lees
Imroc Neurodiversity Team Quality and Accreditation Lead
I’m Robyn and I’m the Imroc Neurodiversity Team Quality and Accreditation Lead. I like to collect stationery and sweets! I was a trainer on this course and loved every minute of it!
Emma Watson
Facilitator
I love being part of Imroc, and in my spare time I love climbing, reading and - maybe most of all - sleeping!