News
News and updates from across every CLAPA region
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Adult Issues | Research | Research Summaries |
Research Summary: Visible Difference and Equality Law
Earlier this year, researcher Hannah Saunders interviewed a number of adults with a visible difference about their experiences in the workplace to learn more about if law does enough to promote the equality of people with a visible difference. Here, she presents a summary of her findings.
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Adult Issues | CLAPA Blogs |
World Mental Health Day – 10 October
Thursday 10th October is World Mental Health Day. To mark the occasion, CLAPA's Adult Services Manager, Kenny Ardouin, wrote about cleft and mental health, and what we can all do to keep ourselves and each other mentally well.
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Adult Issues | Mental Health |
World Mental Health Day 2019
Thursday 10th October 2019 is World Mental Health Day! We often only think and hear about mental health when we learn that somebody is experiencing mental ill health, but we all have mental health and it's important that we keep ourselves and each other mentally well as well as physically well. To mark World Mental Health Day, CLAPA's Adult Services Coordinator takes a look at what's available for the cleft community.
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Adult Stories | Volunteering Stories | Your Stories |
Naomi & Oliver’s Story
This World Smile Day, CLAPA welcomes 'Jamestown' Actress Naomi Battrick as our Ambassador. Here, she shares her memories of supporting longtime friend Oliver through one of the many cleft-related surgeries he went through.
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Adult Issues | Adult Stories | Your Stories |
Sarah’s Story
During those formative years, I was in and out of GOSH for surgical procedures, either on my bladder or to correct my facial differences. In 1982 I had some of some bone marrow taken from my hip and grafted into the gap left by the cleft.
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Your Stories |
Amanda and Skye’s Story
With the surprise of her first baby being born with a cleft, Amanda found that the experience was quite isolating. It was this that inspired her to become more involved with CLAPA, forming and running her own group for other Scottish families affected by cleft.
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Adult Issues | CLAPA Blogs | Genetics | Research | Research Summaries | Staff Blog |
CLAPA Presents at European Cleft Conference in Utrecht
Adult Services Coordinator Kenny Ardouin reports back on his time in Utrecht talking about CLAPA's Adult Services Project and learning from others who'd travelled from all around the world.
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CLAPA Blogs | CLAPA40 | Updates from CLAPA |
Carol Vorderman Leads Celebrations for CLAPA’s 40th Anniversary
On Thursday 27th June, CLAPA celebrated our 40th anniversary with proud Patron Carol Vorderman leading a round of thank-you speeches to founding members and Trustees past and present.
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CLAPA40 | Updates from CLAPA | Your Stories |
40 years of CLAPA: An Interview with Gareth Davies
Gareth Davies, now co-founder of the European Cleft Organisation (ECO) was CLAPA’s first CEO (and first ever paid staff member) from 1995 until 2008. Gareth’s time as CEO saw Carol Vorderman invited to become CLAPA’s Patron in 2001, CLAPA’s first ever young people’s residential weekend in 2002, the launch of free ‘Welcome Packs’ for new parents and carers in 2003 and CLAPA’s first Adults’ Conference in 2007.
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CLAPA40 | Fathers | Parents | Volunteering Stories | Your Stories |
Nick’s Story
"The cursor in the search bar blinked. Fingers sat motionless on the keys. Is this what we want to do? What are we hoping to find out? Why am I thinking, “how bad will it be?” Why her? Will she be okay? What will her life be like? All the questions that you may have wistfully imagined answers to while watching the sunrise now cascaded in search of answers in front of a monitor. The idea of finding out as frightening as not knowing."
