Kent and Medway Complex Autism Service, known as KAMCAS, is a tertiary specialist service commissioned to support adults with complex presentations and a confirmed diagnosis of autism where other professionals within the mental health and the care system are unable to meet the person’s needs effectively.

We provide consultation and a variety of direct autism-adapted interventions that are not available from primary or secondary services.

Our primary aim is to support clients and professionals in preventing admissions or re-admissions to secure settings, e.g. mental health hospitals or the criminal justice system.

In 2018, Sinclair-Strong Consultants were commissioned to provide the Kent and Medway Complex Autism Service and has since been working in collaboration with a range of agencies across Kent and Medway to support community independence for adults with autism and other co-existing diagnoses, for whom secondary services have exhausted their resources in offering support and are therefore seeking autism expertise that goes beyond what they can offer.

We aim to provide a person-centred approach through our team of experienced and autism-trained:

We will assess the needs of the person referred and interventions will be offered by the appropriate discipline(s).

Referrals to KAMCAS must come from secondary care services, e.g. adult social care, or community mental health teams. We are unable to accept referrals from primary services such as GPs, acute hospital settings, or an individual.

To ensure the effectiveness and long-term maintenance of the intervention(s) and to minimise the risks that our client group often presents with, we require referred adults to remain open to a secondary team(s) for the duration of KAMCAS involvement.

KAMCAS has its main office in Kings Hill. Appointments can be offered at the offices, online and in community settings, including homes, supported living placements and residential settings.

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