We're CALMH, Care for Autism, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health — a specialist complex care provider delivering supported living and residential care across Staffordshire.
Welcome to supportthat feels like family.
We're CALMH, Care for Autism, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health — a specialist complex care provider delivering supported living and residential care across Staffordshire.
Hamid Abdallah
Registered Manager"Every person deserves a home, not a placement, and a team that actually knows them."
What We Do
We're CALMH, Care for Autism, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, a specialist complex care provider delivering supported living and residential care across Staffordshire.
We support adults with autism, learning disabilities, and complex mental health needs, including those with behaviours that challenge and those stepping down from hospital or Assessment and Treatment Unit (ATU) settings. Many of the people we support have a history of placement breakdown, and our services are designed specifically to address the gaps that led to it.
Every home we provide is single-occupancy, with support planned individually around each person's needs.
CALMH exists to deliver individualised, single-occupancy support for adults with autism, learning disabilities, and complex mental health needs, particularly where previous placements have broken down or a hospital admission has run longer than it should have. Our mission is simple: the right support, in the right home, at the right time, and it shapes every referral we accept and every plan we build.
That means reducing reliance on hospital-based care wherever a community placement can meet someone's needs safely, prioritising the least restrictive option in every decision, and supporting positive risk-taking where it genuinely improves someone's quality of life. We work to the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and Active Support models, in line with the Mental Capacity Act and the individual's right to make their own decisions wherever they have the capacity to do so.
Why We're Different
Complex care requires individualised planning at every stage, and that doesn't change as a service grows. As we expand across Staffordshire, each new placement is assessed on the same basis as our first: whether it's genuinely the right fit for the person moving in.
A diagnosis tells us what someone's needs might be. It doesn't tell us what they're capable of, or what a good life looks like for them. We start every placement by finding that out, and build the plan around it.
Four promises we make to every family.
Values are easy to list. These are the ones we expect you to hold us to, and here's what each looks like in real life.
We lead every interaction with kindness.
Support workers who learn the small things: the music that calms, the meals that comfort, the routines that matter.We do what we say we will.
Straight answers for families and commissioners, even when the honest answer is the harder one.Every person lives on their own terms.
Choice, privacy and a front door of their own, with support shaped around the person and never the other way round.Good enough is never enough.
Clinically-led, reflective practice that keeps raising the bar, because “fine” isn’t what your family came here for.Warm support, rigorously run.
For families this is peace of mind; for commissioners, it's the detail. Either way, it's how we work every day.
Safeguarding first
Every team member is enhanced-DBS checked and trained to recognise, report and act on concerns. We work openly with families and local authorities, always.Clinically governed
Nurse-led oversight, regular audits and reflective practice keep the quality of support visible to us, to commissioners and to the people we support.Regulated & accountable
Registered with the Care Quality Commission, with transparent incident reporting and clear routes to raise a concern or complaint.See what support looks like at Ignite
Meet the people behind our support and hear what matters to us.Five simple steps to the right support.
We respond to every referral within 24 hours, and guide you through everything that follows.
Referral
From a family member, healthcare professional, social worker, care provider or the person themselves.Assessment
We take time to understand individual needs, preferences, aspirations and goals.Care Plan
A tailored, flexible plan built around the person, their daily needs and long-term goals.Admission
A smooth, supported transition into the right supported living environment.Ongoing Support
Regular reviews, feedback and adjustments as needs, goals and circumstances change.Referral
From a family member, healthcare professional, social worker, care provider or the person themselves.Assessment
We take time to understand individual needs, preferences, aspirations and goals.Care Plan
A tailored, flexible plan built around the person, their daily needs and long-term goals.Admission
A smooth, supported transition into the right supported living environment.Ongoing Support
Regular reviews, feedback and adjustments as needs, goals and circumstances change.
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The questions everyone asks first.
For commissioners and referrers.
If you're a social worker, care coordinator, or commissioner looking to place someone with complex needs, we make referrals straightforward.
