Community advocacy might be offered when advocacy isn’t assigned to someone as a legal right. As with all advocacy services, it can support people who are facing important decisions that impact on their quality of life and independence or have long-term implications. It helps people who would have substantial difficulty advocating for themselves and don’t have a family member or friend to support them. This means difficulty understanding, holding, using, or weighing up information, as well as communicating views, wishes and feelings.
Issue based to:
This advocacy will focus on supporting people in making difficult and /or important decisions which may impact on their quality of life and independence and /or have long term consequences, not on the everyday decisions of daily life; it is not an ongoing support service.
People who are 18 + and :
Download the Essex Community Referral Form v1.1 here.
For further information on the advocacy process, visit the Rethink Essex All Age Advocacy Service website here.
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