Mental Health Advocacy Project (West Lothian) SCIO

About

To provide advocacy services to Adults with Mental Health or Addiction issues, ensuring their voices are heard. providing face-to-face advocacy services throughout West Lothian to enable people to have influence over decisions affecting their life, meet their needs and protect their rights and interests. The service will deliver an independent service that speaks up for individuals and assists those with mental health or addiction issues to have a stronger voice with as much control as possible over their own lives through - one-to-one advocacy, supporting individuals to represent their own interests or representing views if person is unable to do this themselves - non-instructed advocacy, supporting individuals who need an independent advocate but cannot express their views due to complex communication needs, long-term illness, or disability - collective advocacy, providing collective opportunities to patients in IPCU and W17 in St John's Hospital and in community.

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