Sarah Templeton
2024 Global Conference Speaker
Biography
CEO and Founder of ADHD Liberty
Sarah Templeton has ADHD. She is the CEO and Founder of ADHD Liberty, the number one charity focused on ADHD in the criminal justice system. Sarah is a force of nature on making change in the prison system for individuals with ADHD. She will provide an update and insight into her latest work. As well as tell us about her newest book.
An update from ADHD Liberty
Sarah Templeton has ADHD. She is the CEO and Founder of ADHD Liberty, the number one charity focused on ADHD in the criminal justice system. Sarah is a force of nature on making change in the prison system for individuals with ADHD. She will provide an update and insight into her latest work. As well as tell us about her newest book.
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Hi
Is there provision for prisoners to obtain a diagnosis whilst in prison?
If so, is the provision balanced between male and female inmates?
Only 5% of the prison population is female, but yes, the vast majority of them are ADHD as well. It varies Prison to Prison massively. Some it works very well – in most it does not. And most of them if they get a diagnosis at all, it’s of a personality disorder, because the mental healthcare teams are not trained to diagnose ADHD
Are you collecting statistics during g this process of working with the cops and prisons? i hope so
Agree. I should think Sarah is, very much so!
Sarah is !!!! Or because of my severe dyspraxia I should say my team are but yes of course we are gathering every snippet of evidence weekend to prove that screening should be mandatory in all these services especially the criminal justice system
Yes. We very much are. We have got numerous pilots going on and we are gathering every fact and figure that we possibly can. They are all breathtakingly high and showing a minimum of 85%. One pilot came out at 90%.
Yes, big time. Every single one of these pilots and trials is monitored and the figures will be available especially for the government.
Yes. Massively.
What an amazing life you’ve had. This will be fascinating. I have noticed such awful treatment by authorities towards those with ADHD, even myself by the Police when stopped innocently, driving. They only listened to me when I told them the truth I was an NHS Responder at the time but because I said I had ADHD and was confused at a road being blocked off in an area unfamiliar to me, they seemed to deal with me very abruptly, rudely and suspiciously at first, even breathalysing me when I told them I don’t drink. That attitude is what’s mad.
Oh, I do get that they were probably following some kind of procedure when they breathalysed me, obviously it was a 0% reading. But they were so rude to me, going about it, aggressive attitude which hardly does anything to calm any anxiety or panic we might feel, even though I’d said I had ADHD and was baffled by a road closure in a new area, with no clue which other road to take next.
Mine died some years ago, I was only diagnosed 3 years back at age 63 but I did wonder once I had a feeling about it in the naughties whether at least one of my parents had ADHD.
I have ADHD and I am a ILM level 7 executive coach and mentor, I have also applied to do an ADHD coaching course.
I would like to offer prisoners coaching and also teach coaching skills in prison. How might I go about doing that?