
Working together and taking action through lockdown
As a self-advocacy organisation Ace Anglia's priority has always been to support people with a learning disability and/or autism to have a voice and a platform to be heard.
As a self-advocacy organisation Ace Anglia's priority has always been to support people with a learning disability and/or autism to have a voice and a platform to be heard.
In this blog post, The Advonet Group describe the power of using an advocacy approach in partnership to lead to local change, using the example of a local user-led service focused on one group that experienced clear inequalities.
For us the power of partnership means equality. It means respect and support. And there is no better example of this power in action than The Cumbria Learning Disability Autism Partnership Board, of which People First, some of our members and one of our Trustees, are proud to be a part.
Advocacy organisations have started working together in new ways, as this collaborative blog explains.
Empowerment can be defined as processes applied by others that facilitate the capacity of other individuals or groups to exercise personal autonomy of decision making and action. Approaches to empowerment can take lots of forms...
Welcome to Advocacy Awareness Week 2020!! It’s time for our third annual advocacy awareness week and this year, perhaps more than ever, it feels vital to be sharing and telling our stories about all that...
Working in partnership with minoritised communities doesn’t just miraculously happen, it requires skillful building of trust and a demonstration of being an ally, before an organisation will feel that they can invest time in working...
‘The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice’. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous quote is full of optimism, a sense that progress is inevitable. The notion that a hopeful future of greater equality, health and wellbeing is somehow preordained.
Through our Community Led Support (CLS) programme we are working with over 30 areas across the UK to transform the way they support people. Covid-19 has inevitably changed things but what has been the impact of CLS on this?
Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, the National Development Team for Inclusion’s (NDTi’s) Time to Talk project offers 50 young people online strength-based support at home to counter social isolation, provide motivation and help them return to education or training.
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