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A few weeks ago, Ann Memmott (autistic expert and NDTi Associate), Jez (Bethany’s Dad) along with other colleagues at NDTi shared Bethany’s story. This is a story that truly reflects the power of partnerships – in this case, partnerships with autistic experts, family and others

We hear from one of the citizen advocates from Stockport Advocacy. This advocate is a tribute to their citizen advocacy roots and the ethos of walking alongside somebody. It touches on the huge benefit that comes with good partnerships between advocates and carers.

Although we always strive to do better, The Advocacy Project is proud of our diversity – diversity in governance, diversity of staff, and things like our “cultural awareness toolkit” to help inform our advocacy practice.

Can we be more effective when we work in partnership? Through developing relationships and joining a person's 'team' maybe we can expect better connections and better outcomes for a person and enable them to have a better life?

Emerald has lots of experiences as a young woman with a learning disability and has dealt with mental ill health over the years too. Emerald shares her experiences of where she hasn’t been listed too and her voice hasn’t been heard and the impact that had on her wellbeing.

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.

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...