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Advocacy

Community Advocacy

An Advocate is an independent professional who can support you to have your voice heard on a particular issue. They can help you to understand a process you are going through and will try to support you to build up your confidence.

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We work with:

  • People with physical disabilities

  • People with learning difficulties and disabilities

  • People with mental health needs

  • People who are neurodivergent

  • People who are deaf

An Advocate Can: 

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  • Represent your views and wishes if you find it hard to communicate

  • Help you to make an informed choice and come up with a plan of action

  • Attend meetings and help you to understand what is said

  • Help you to understand important documents

  • Be non-judgemental and respectful to you

An Advocate Cannot:

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  • Be a support worker – they can only support you around a specific issue

  • Make decisions for you, or tell you what to do

  • Automatically get you the outcome you want

  • Do things for you

  • Respond to a crisis situation

FAQs for Community Advocacy

Community Advocacy - information sheet for self-referrals

If you want to make a referral for Community Advocacy, please read the ‘Community Advocacy - information sheet for self-referrals’ and ‘FAQs for Community Advocacy’ documents above and then follow this link to complete the referral form.

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