Get Yourself Active at Disability Rights UK, along with noted film-makers Rainbow Collective, the social care providers Trafford Choices and Community Integrated Care, and the organisation Skills for Care, have launched a new, publicly accessible video series that shows how disabled people can get active in care environments.
Get Yourself Active are making the videos available to encourage journalists, organisations, and disabled people to better understand the reality of getting active. They want these videos to be used as teaching resources in the social care and work sector, to break down barriers and support disabled people to be active in the ways they want.
Get Yourself Active’s extensive research has shown that the social care workforce are essential and trusted messengers to the people they support. Ultimately, if they understand more about the importance of physical activity and what is on offer, they will be better placed to help disabled people lead a more active life.
These videos will prove to be a valuable resource by tackling the barriers head-on. By providing social workers, care staff, and family members with the knowledge and tools to become agents of change. The videos are freely available on the Get Yourself Active
Youtube channel and show:
- The reality of disabled people’s participation in physical activity
- Disabled people and support and care workers showing examples of how they stay active together and how it benefits them all
- Disabled people talking about why physical activity is important to them and how they have been supported by their care/support worker
- Support or care workers talking about how they have supported disabled people to get physically active, opening up and being honest about what has helped, what challenges they may have faced and how they worked through these
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The main film and other videos are available to watch on Get Yourself Active’s YouTube channel. BSL translated and closed-captioned videos are also available.