Charity, Health & Lifestyle | Posted on June 12th, 2025 | return to news
Help for young people transitioning to adult services in Dorset
A disability charity is organising a session on 25 June to help families through the changeover from children’s services to adult services.

Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s Disability Charity, holds sessions to help families through the changeover from children’s services to adult services.
The charity explains that transition from children’s services to adult services creates vast amounts of anxiety for families with disabled children as they are facing changes, new services, and new people. Diverse Abilities supports children and adults with physical and learning disabilities and wants to make the process easier for families interacting with all the services involved.
Lynda Larke from Diverse Abilities said: “It’s great to get families together and help them to get the support they need. When children reach 18, their families are at a cliff edge, everything they have known in terms of funding and healthcare provisions ends, and the process begins all over again, so we’re here to help make that transition as seamless as possible.”
The next session will take place on Wednesday 25 June from 10.30am at Bourne View, Langside Avenue, BH12 5BN.
The morning will provide a chance to meet with professionals from the NHS, BCP Council and Diverse Abilities, as well as other charities and organisations in the Dorset area. It is also a chance to speak with other parents and carers who may be experiencing similar situations and challenges.
Those interested in attending can register their interest at diverseabilities.org.uk/transitionsdropin, where questions can also be submitted ahead of the event.
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