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On January 23, 'Autism on the Agenda' was launched, a campaign to make autism visible. NVA director Caroline Verkerk presented the first copy of the book 'Autism on the Agenda' to Member of Parliament Lisa Westerveld (GL-PvdA). This book is full of stories from people with autism. About work, education, housing and care. They give a realistic picture of the many thresholds they experience almost daily in their lives. The NVA will bring these stories to the attention of (local) politicians and policymakers in order to put autism on the agenda. This is urgently needed, because at the moment, many municipalities are losing supervisors specialized in autism. Care organizations that think: autism, you just do that on the side! The opposite is true: the right autism knowledge in the right place is and remains of crucial importance. Also in the classroom, at the institution for sheltered housing, in the neighborhood team and in elderly care, to name a few examples. The NVA wants so-called life-course guidance to be available everywhere in the Netherlands for everyone with autism who needs it - exactly as the Health Council already advised in 2009. Curious about what the NVA is going to do in the coming months to put autism on the agenda? Then take a look at: https://www.autisme.nl/liveblog-nva-v...