HAVEN stands for “Hearing, Accepting, Valuing Every Neurotype” and is a new way of supporting autistic and neurodivergent pupils in mainstream high schools.

It is first going to be delivered via the Autism in Schools project in Manchester and training has already been provided to three of the participating schools: Levenshulme High School, Manchester Communication Academy, and Southern Cross school.

This project has been a collaboration between the Community Speech and Language Therapy team, the CAMHS Speech and Language Therapy Team, One Education educational psychologists, and the University of Manchester’s Speech and Language Therapy department and Psychology and Mental Health department.

Our aim is to create environments within mainstream schools that can support autistic young people to form connections with other autistic and neurodivergent young people.

Below are some articles and events on our website that relate to the HAVEN project: