Advocacy services provided by seAp in West Berkshire

Advocacy in West Berkshire is available to you if you are an older person, a carer, a person with a disability or a mental health illness.

The service will help you to: access information and services, be involved in decisions, explore choices and options, defend and promote your rights, speak out about issues that matter to you and have your voice heard. 

Services provided:

• Community Advocacy
• Self-Advocacy Group - It's My Life.  A self-advocacy network which supports its members to gain confidence, learn new skills, speak up and campaign to make things better for people with learning disabilities living in West Berkshire. The group holds regular meetings, drop-in sessions and workshops.
• Independent Health Complaints Advocacy (IHCA) - do you want to complain about your NHS care or treatment?  Visit the website for a 'self help information pack', an easy read NHS complaints leaflet along with a BSL Signed Video
• Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) - helping people who have been detained under the Mental Health Act
• Community Mental Health Advocacy - Community mental health advocacy could help you to become more involved in the decisions that are made about your life
• Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) - When someone is considered not capable of making their own decisions, it is still important that their views and wishes are heard by those involved in their care and treatment.
• Learning Disability Advocacy - Advocacy means to speak up for someone. With the help of an advocate people with learning disabilites can gain control over their lives, make their own choices about what happens to them and be as independent as possible.
• Care Act Advocacy

Information available on the seAp website or call for further details.