Advocacy Awareness Week 2022: Upholding Human Rights through independent advocacy. Kate Mercer from Blackbelt Advocacy talks about the importance of being heard and taking the time to listen.
In this short film Katrin McEntee, Senior Human Rights Officer at the British Institute of Human Rights and former advocate, tells us how her advocacy work involved the Human Rights Act.
Welcome to Advocacy Awareness Week 2022. This is our 5th year of spending a week celebrating and raising awareness about independent advocacy and this year our focus is on advocacy and human rights.
David Vickers is a member of the Older People’s Sounding Board. It’s a group we facilitate on behalf of NHS England where members use their skills and experience to provide feedback on policy proposals. The group also shares their views on the wider issues of wellbeing through themed conversations.
Tanzie explains what’s important to her in this short film. Our Time to Talk Next Steps programme #TtTNS has supported Tanzie to build confidence and make plans for her future as she moves into adult life.
Internships Work is a new project which will enable 4500 16-25 year old's with additional needs in England to benefit from a supported internship each year by 2025.
This year's 5th annual Advocacy Awareness Week (#AAW22) takes place from 7th -11th November 2022.
Time to Talk Next Steps one year on. The celebration event brought together young people, parents, carers and staff to coproduce the next year of the project.
Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) support has changed since the programme came to an end in March 2022, please read this important update about how this affects the support we can offer, as well as the website and helpline.
Paul from My Life My Choice shares his experiences of being part of a number of different communities and the positive impacts of making a difference to other people's lives.
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