"LTCH has helped me to come such a long way". Louise, a participant at LTCH, explains how the support she has received and self management tools she has learnt have enabled her to take the lead in the management of her health. Read here: #WhatINeedToLead

@NDCS_UK @ALLIANCEScot After 2 years of campaigning, @SightScotland's Fair Rail Campaign has secured a pilot to extend free rail travel for companions of Blind Persons Concessionary Travel cardholders, and a place as finalists in @ALLIANCEScot Self Management Awards 2025 Sensory Impairment category.

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@NDCS_UK @ALLIANCEScot NHS Tayside earned a place as finalists in @ALLIANCEScot Self Management Awards 2025 Sensory Impairment category for implementing improvements enabling people to live a good life with Deafness, supporting people experiencing tinnitus or balance issues.

@NDCS_UK are finalists in this year's @ALLIANCEScot Self Management Awards 2025 Sensory Impairment category for their work supporting a Deaf teenager to set case law in Scotland, winning a prolonged legal battle for the right to have BSL interpretation in school.

Today's thread is featuring the finalists for the Sensory Impairment: Positive Self Management category in our #SelfManagement25 awards. First up.

#WhatINeedToLead. Find out why patience and understanding are what enable our colleague Chris to feel supported, in this short clip:. #SelfManagement25 . @ALLIANCEScot @SelfMgmtScot

Registration is now open for Self Management Week 2025!. Running from 22-25 September, all events will be free, inclusive and will explore self management, health and wellbeing. Check out the events schedule here: . #SelfManagement25 .@ALLIANCEScot

#WhatINeedToLead. Today we are championing Deaf Links, whose new video explores what deaf women in Tayside have learnt about anxiety and how they cope. Worthy winners of last year's Sensory Impairment Award!. Watch the video here:

@ChildHealthScot @ALLIANCEScot Joint finalists for @ALLIANCEScot 2025 Empowering Self Management Project are Rosie McBride and Paul McLean from Live Well team & Sharon Reid from Live Active at Glasgow Life for their work in Govanhill supporting participants to learn how to manage their health & wellbeing.

Bear’s Big SMS Adventures from @ChildHealthScot are redefining what self management looks like for Kinship Care Families across Scotland. Bringing carers and children together to learn side by side. Worthy Finalist for @ALLIANCEScot Self Management Awards 2025 Empowering category.

First up for @ALLIANCEScot Awards 2025 Empowering Self Management Project is @BipolarScotland's Self Management Training. Co-designed & delivered by people with lived experience, to support people with bipolar to build confidence, resilience & hope

#WhatINeedToLead. Leila and Sean at Autistic Knowledge Development have shaped a new approach to their care through the work they do to bring more autistic people to the forefront of projects. Read all about it here:. #HumansOfScotland .#SelfManagement25

Next week, the @ALLIANCEScot Self Management team will be launching the events schedule for Self Management Week 2025 and you'll be able to sign up to our events. We hope you're as excited as we are! . Stay tuned for updates at @SelfMgmtScot. #SelfManagement25 .#WhatINeedToLead

"I feel more connected to myself, to humanity and the wider, natural world". Gail has several long term conditions but has taken the lead in the management of her health through a range of self management approaches. Read her story here: #WhatINeedToLead

@HealthyValleys @ALLIANCEScot Founder of @AKDScotland Sean Macaskill is our 3rd finalist in the Audry Birt Self Management Champion Award in this year's @ALLIANCEScot Self Management Awards 2025 "Sean is growing a community and a safe place for people giving them a structure to rely on.".

Judges were impressed by @HealthyValleys Women Living Well volunteers and what they've achieved as a group to support Self Management, earning them a nomination for the Audrey Birt Self Management Champion Award in this year's @ALLIANCEScot Self Management Awards 2025.

"Through his work, he inspires others to believe in change, and his presence consistently raises the profile of self management in real, tangible ways." Some of the nomination received for Warren Berwick for the @ALLIANCEScot Audrey Birt Self Management Champion award.

Our Programme Manager Grace tells us in this short video what she needs to lead - information and options to help her make informed decisions:. #WhatINeedToLead .#SelfManagement25 .@ALLIANCEScot .@SelfMgmtScot

Join us at the Self Management Network Scotland online networking session next Tuesday to be among the first to see the events schedule for Self Management Week 2025!. 📍Zoom, Tuesday 19th August, 12:30pm. You can sign up to the network here, for free:.

@mssocietyscot @CaledonianNews @GSofA @ALLIANCEScot @NKSHealth Since 2020, Plugged In by @NWGVSN has given refurbished IT devices to 2000 people, saved 22 tonnes from landfill, and earned its place as Digital Innovator finalists in @ALLIANCEScot Self Management Awards 2025 #SelfManagement25.