One-to-One Peer Support

We can provide up to four one-to-one peer support sessions for autistic adults (18 or older) with little or no funded support in the Bradford, Airedale and Wharfedale and Craven areas. These can be offered in person at our Autism Hub or by text.

What is peer support?

Peer support is when people use their own experiences to help each other. There are different types of peer support, but they all aim to:

  • Bring together people with shared experiences to support each other
  • Provide a space where you feel accepted, understood, and free from judgement
  • Treat everyone’s experiences as being equally important
  • Meet someone to talk about how you’re feeling or to set goals, work on strategies

Mind have a page explaining how peer support works one-to-one and in groups: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/drugs-and-treatments/peer-support/about-peer-support/.

What does Bradford Autism AIM offer?

In our peer support sessions, we offer:

  • Information on what it means to be autistic
  • Tips on managing day-to-day
  • Information on any services you can access
  • Greater understanding of different issues that affect autistic people
  • Support from someone with lived experience of being autistic

You can have up to four peer support sessions a year and each session usually last for 45 minutes.

How do I access one-to-one peer support?

Step 1

Make a referral

If you are 18 or older, live in Bradford and are not receiving any funded support then you can fill in the online referral form and select the one-to-one peer support option.

If you have already filled in our referral form before you don’t need to fill in a new one you can just email us at bradfordautismaim@advonet.org.uk or contact us through our website here and say you’d like to access one-to-one peer support.

Click here to make a referral

Step 2

We will get in contact

We will contact you using your preferred contact method, which will be on your referral form, to discuss this support with you.

We can currently contact you by phone, Zoom, Team or by text.

We will also soon be able to meet people in person at our Hub.

We will have a chat with you about what one-to-one peer support is and if it is right for you.

If it isn’t appropriate for what you are looking for support with then we will support you to identify other services that might be better.

Step 3

Waiting list

If after speaking with us you feel that one-to-one peer support is the right thing for you we will add you to the waiting list.

Currently, the wait time is about a month and a half to two months wait for your first session.

Once you get close to the top of the waiting list we will contact you to arrange a date and time for your first session.

Request peer support now

If one-to-one peer support seems right for you then please don’t hesitate to request that support from us now.

I am a new client

I you have never used our service before please click the button below.

Click here to fill in our referral form

I am an existing client

If you have used our service before you can simply email us at bradfordautismaim@advonet.org.uk or contact us through our website here and say you’d like to access one-to-one peer support and we will get back to you as soon as we can (Please allow up to 2 weeks).

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