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Advocacy
is:
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• Getting support to speak
out.
• Having someone
independent who is on our side and can speak out for
us. |
Advocacy Partners provides independent
advocacy to people with learning disabilities, older people
and people with mental health needs or physical impairments.
Advocacy Partners services
include:
Professional Advocacy
– We employ staff to provide a focused individual advocacy
service. This service provides support and
representation, including to people with very complex needs
and those who require major changes in their lives. We also
supervise a team of trained volunteers who support people in
this way.
Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy
(IMCA) – In
order to promote and safeguard the interests of people
who may otherwise be amongst the most vulnerable, we provide a
statutory IMCA service. This ensures that independent support
and representation is provided by trained advocates to people
who are assessed to lack capacity to make particular decisions
about serious medical treatment or where they
live.
Citizen Advocacy
– Advocacy Partners recruits, trains and supports
volunteer Citizen Advocates. A Citizen Advocate’s role
is to represent the interests of another person with the same
commitment as if they were their own interests and to provide
a link into community life for people who otherwise may be
isolated. Advocacy Partners supports Citizen Advocates for
people with disabilities, particularly those with learning
disabilities.
Self Advocacy and Involvement
– Advocacy Partners provides
independent support to people with learning
disabilities. We support people with learning
disabilities to run Self Advocacy groups. These enable people
to provide mutual support, raise common issues and to ensure
that these are addressed. We also support people with learning
disabilities to work collectively to input into the planning
and development of services.
Support Brokerage –
Support brokerage enables people to plan and
arrange social care support, often using Personal (or
Individual) Budgets. Advocacy Partners is developing Support
Brokerage both by employing Support Brokers and finding ways
in which different people and organisations can assist people
to plan and arrange their own social care.
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