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WHAT IS ADVOCACY?
- Advocacy is the process of speaking up for or acting on behalf of yourself or another person.
WHAT IS IT FOR?
- To ensure the person’s voice is heard
- To secure services which the person requires
- To secure rights to which the person is entitled to
Aims and Objectives
- To help all people who use Mental Health Services obtain their full range of human and civil rights
- To provide advocacy services in a culturally sensitive and non-discriminating manner
The Way We Work
- Self - advocacy is both the underlying philosophy and the concrete goal of all our work: it is both our experience and belief that this is the only relevant way of working as advocates: it is also the most effective and empowering. It is a genuinely user-led process and advocates will only take action at the instruction of service users
- We never take a ‘best interests’ approach, unless working in a formal non-instructed capacity, and this is the key difference between mental health advocacy and other kinds of mental health work.
- We take our main principles of working as those defined in the Advocacy Charter – Advocacy Across London (2003)
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