We offer a free independent casework advocacy service to anyone experiencing mental health difficulties.
SERVICES
Welcome to Advocacy in SomersetAdvocacy in Somerset provides an advocacy service for young people and adults with mental health difficulties primarily for those who are in-patients in mental health hospital units find out more, and the Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service find out more. We have also helped set up and now support the Maze Project, which provides an advocacy service for young people with mental health difficulties in the community find out more.
We produce the Headspace Toolkit, which provides information and advice on self advocacy for young people who are psychiatric in-patients find out more
If you would like to contact us about our services or about advocacy generally we would be pleased to receive your call or email.
What is Advocacy?
Not an easy question. It can mean different things to different people. Put simply it is speaking up for oneself or for others.
Advocacy may be something we all need at some point, but it has a particular resonance for those young people and adults who, for a variety of reasons, are marginalised from society.
It is a means of accessing basic human rights.
What We Do
We provide an advocacy service for young people and adults with mental health difficulties in all of the in-patient psychiatric units in Somerset.
The service we offer is:- Free
- Confidential
- Independent
- User and Carer led
- Accessible
We provide weekly drop-in sessions in all of the units, when patients can meet with an advocate and discuss the support they need. Advocates will also visit patients at other times by appointment. The times of the regular drop-in sessions are advertised in the units. How to contact the service is also widely advertised in the units, and unit staff will also make referrals on patients behalf if asked to so.
The advocacy service for adults receives its funding from Somerset County Council and the Somerset Primary Care Trust. The young peoples. service is funded by the Children in Need Charity. The IMCA service receives central Government funding through Somerset County Council.
Service Categories
Mens Health, Womens Health
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