ADHD Awareness Month offered an important opportunity to reflect on identity, challenge stereotypes, and celebrate the diverse ways ADHD shapes peoples lives. While the campaign may have ended, its message of recognising the many faces of ADHD and valuing lived experience remains deeply relevant. By listening to overlooked voices and embracing the strengths and challenges that sit side by side, we can continue building more understanding, inclusive, and supportive communities all year round.

We’re delighted to announce that Redstone has officially joined Positive Support Group, expanding the depth and reach of our national training offer. Alongside this, we warmly welcome Kate Strutt – founder of Redstone and highly experienced clinical psychologist – as PSG’s new Division Lead for Training.

Last month was ADHD Awareness Month — a chance to reflect on lived experience, challenge misconceptions, and celebrate the many ways ADHD shapes people’s lives. Although the campaign has ended, this year’s theme, The Many Faces of ADHD, continues to feel incredibly relevant. It mirrors the broader themes explored in this newsletter — listening to voices that have been overlooked, honouring diversity, and recognising the richness of neurodivergent experience.

At PSG, we work with many neurodivergent children, young people, and adults who have developed different ways of navigating environments that can feel overwhelming, confusing, or socially demanding. One experience that comes up again and again in our work is masking — the effort autistic people make to fit in, stay safe, or avoid negative consequences in settings that don’t accommodate their needs. Masking can be a powerful survival strategy, but it also carries significant emotional and psychological costs.

At PSG, we support many neurodivergent children, young people, and adults whose emotional experiences are shaped by unique sensory needs, communication styles, and ways of understanding the world. These differences shape how people experience and express emotions, which means support also needs to be flexible, individualised, and rooted in understanding. This includes everyday situations such as managing sensory overwhelm, responding to big emotions, coping with changes in routine, or expressing needs during moments of stress. In our work, this means taking a relational, strengths-based approach to emotional well-being.

Positive Support Group (PSG) – Position Statement on Recent Claims Linking Paracetamol (Tylenol) and Autism

For World Suicide Prevention Day, we spoke with Positive Jessica Aviles, Chief Clinical Officer at Positive Support Group (PSG) who has been central to developing our Suicide Prevention model. In this interview, Jessica explains the two ways PSG is supporting people at risk, how Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) underpins the approach, and why this work is so urgently needed.

PSG were recently featured in The Independent in a piece highlighting the urgent need for earlier, stronger community mental health support.

We’re proud to share that three of Positive Support Group’s specialist training programmes have now been awarded Continued Professional Development (CPD) accreditation – a recognition of the high-quality, evidence-based learning they deliver to professionals across the sector.

Since 2019, emergency hospital admissions for autistic children have risen by a staggering 86%. Behind every statistic is a family in crisis – and too often, that crisis could have been prevented with the right community support in place.

For any profession or organisation involved in supporting autistic people, conversations around neurodiversity and the lived realities of neurodivergent people are essential.

This Learning Disability Week, we’re invited to reflect on a powerful question: Do you see me?

Last week, members of the PSG team joined colleagues from across the health and care system at NHS Confed Expo 2025. As ever, it was a valuable opportunity to listen, learn and connect – and to reflect on how we can continue working together to improve support for people with the most complex behavioural and mental health needs.

At Positive Support Group (PSG), we work every day with people who have some of the most complex behavioural and wellbeing-related needs in the country. And every day, we see the consequences of a system that still too often places people in the wrong setting, far from home, and for far too long.

We’ve recently conducted some analysis of NHS reported data, which explores the scale of these issues and what needs to change.

This past weekend, Positive Support Group was proud to present at the Positive Practices International Conference in Los Angeles, arranged by the IABA Research and Education Foundation.

In recent weeks, Positive Support Group (PSG) has been featured in both The Times and HuffPost UK – highlighting a significant rise in emergency hospital admissions among autistic children.

Helping young people move from school refusal to re-engagement – one personalised plan at a time.