ADHD LIBERTY
~ Campaigning for mandatory ADHD screening ~
- Throughout the whole criminal justice system ~ police, probation, approved premises, youth offending services, young offender institutes, and male and female prisons
- The education system, including all secure training centres
- Addiction charities and services
- Homelessness services
ADHD LIBERTY
~ Campaigning for mandatory ADHD screening ~
- Throughout the whole criminal justice system – police, probation, approved premises, youth offending services, young offender institutes, and male and female prisons
- The education system, including all secure training centres
- Addiction charities and services
- Homelessness services
Welcome to ADHD Liberty where we care about ADHD people, their well-being, their rights and their freedom.
Where we will fight passionately until ADHD is recognised as the neurodiverse condition it is rather than ‘a childhood behavioural disorder you outgrow in your late teens’.
Where we won’t accept that teachers are not trained in this common condition, and are then expected to identify and manage ADHD in their classrooms.
Where we won’t rest until all adolescents and young adults first going into a police station are routinely screened for ADHD. Before being criminalised, we need to know if they should be instead diagnosed and medicated for the most treatable psychiatric condition there is.
Where we will fight for the rights of all serving prisoners to be screened for ADHD. To find out for themselves if their previous misdemeanours were due to their ADHD being missed.
Where we will stand up for the right of all those diagnosed with ADHD to be kept on their ADHD medication when they are in prison.
Where we understand about ADHD discrimination. ADHD stigmatisation and far too often, ADHD misdiagnosis.
We believe all ADHD people should have the liberty to have their ADHD recognised, understood and accepted.
And we won’t rest until we have won. Because we are ADHD. And we don’t like coming second.
Welcome to ADHD Liberty where we care about ADHD people, their well-being, their rights and their freedom.
Where we will fight passionately until ADHD is recognised as the neurodiverse condition it is rather than ‘a childhood behavioural disorder you outgrow in your late teens’.
Where we won’t accept that teachers are not trained in this common condition, and are then expected to identify and manage ADHD in their classrooms.
Where we won’t rest until all adolescents and young adults first going into a police station are routinely screened for ADHD. Before being criminalised, we need to know if they should be instead diagnosed and medicated for the most treatable psychiatric condition there is.
Where we will fight for the rights of all serving prisoners to be screened for ADHD. To find out for themselves if their previous misdemeanours were due to their ADHD being missed.
Where we will stand up for the right of all those diagnosed with ADHD to be kept on their ADHD medication when they are in prison.
Where we understand about ADHD discrimination. ADHD stigmatisation and far too often, ADHD misdiagnosis.
We believe all ADHD people should have the liberty to have their ADHD recognised, understood and accepted.
And we won’t rest until we have won. Because we are ADHD. And we don’t like coming second.
Offenders with ADHD
When CEO of ADHD LIBERTY, Sarah Templeton, was working at Aylesbury Prison she had six counselling clients over a year. Three had been diagnosed with ADHD as young children but none of them were on medication. Meaning the risk-taking and thrill-seeking behaviour was off the scale and by the age of 20 and 21 when she met them, they had been in an out of juvenile prison and young offender institutes so many times they were tired, old beyond their years, jaded, disillusioned, and felt their situation and strong likelihood of reoffending meant their life was hopeless.
Of the three other clients Sarah worked with, she has gone on to get two of those diagnosed with ADHD on the outside. That makes 5 out of 6 Young Offenders she worked with diagnosed ADHD. This horrified and saddened Sarah to the point she is now absolutely determined to change the situation. She is now a vocal campaigner for people with ADHD and has made a speech at Parliament in front of the Justice Minister about this situation and won’t rest until all people who encounter the criminal justice system are screened for ADHD when they first enter a police station, and on all induction wings in prisons.
The crazy situation in prisons is that everybody going into prison for the first time OR being moved prison OR going in prison every subsequent time ALWAYS spends at least a week if not two on an ‘prison induction wing’. On this induction wing they are mostly bored stiff! They can’t take on a job or go to education or gym do any of the other activities that usually keep them occupied. They sit around doing nothing. They do have tests for English, Maths, sexually transmitted diseases and basic mental health questions ie ‘are you depressed’ and ‘do you hear voices’.
However the one condition most of them have, is the one that isn’t being assessed for! The very simple online ADHD test that Sarah has used with hundreds of clients over the years, takes less than five minutes to do. There is absolutely no reason why this test can’t be done at the same time. It wouldn’t cost the prison service 1p. It’s completely free. Yet it could quickly identify those scoring highly enough to see the prison psychiatrist. And then once diagnosed and medicated, the chance of them reoffending is extremely low. Think how much the prison service could be saving if around 80 to 90%, possibly more, of prisoners are proven to be ADHD? It’s a win-win situation. The government saves huge amounts of money not locking up so many people, the prisons are half emptied and there would be a massive reduction in crime and so fewer victims.
Offenders with ADHD
When CEO of ADHD LIBERTY, Sarah Templeton, was working at Aylesbury Prison she had six counselling clients over a year. Three had been diagnosed with ADHD as young children but none of them were on medication. Meaning the risk-taking and thrill-seeking behaviour was off the scale and by the age of 20 and 21 when she met them, they had been in an out of juvenile prison and young offender institutes so many times they were tired, old beyond their years, jaded, disillusioned, and felt their situation and strong likelihood of reoffending meant their life was hopeless.
Of the three other clients Sarah worked with, she has gone on to get two of those diagnosed with ADHD on the outside. That makes 5 out of 6 Young Offenders she worked with diagnosed ADHD. This horrified and saddened Sarah to the point she is now absolutely determined to change the situation. She is now a vocal campaigner for people with ADHD and has made a speech at Parliament in front of the Justice Minister about this situation and won’t rest until all people who encounter the criminal justice system are screened for ADHD when they first enter a police station, and on all induction wings in prisons.
The crazy situation in prisons is that everybody going into prison for the first time OR being moved prison OR going in prison every subsequent time ALWAYS spends at least a week if not two on an ‘prison induction wing’. On this induction wing they are mostly bored stiff!
They can’t take on a job or go to education or gym do any of the other activities that usually keep them occupied. They sit around doing nothing. They do have tests for English, Maths, sexually transmitted diseases and basic mental health questions ie ‘are you depressed’ and ‘do you hear voices’.
However the one condition most of them have, is the one that isn’t being assessed for! The very simple online ADHD test that Sarah has used with hundreds of clients over the years, takes less than five minutes to do. There is absolutely no reason why this test can’t be done at the same time. It wouldn’t cost the prison service 1p. It’s completely free. Yet it could quickly identify those scoring highly enough to see the prison psychiatrist.
And then once diagnosed and medicated, the chance of them reoffending is extremely low. Think how much the prison service could be saving if around 80 to 90%, possibly more, of prisoners are proven to be ADHD? It’s a win-win situation. The government saves huge amounts of money not locking up so many people, the prisons are half emptied and there would be a massive reduction in crime and so fewer victims.