CAPS Independent Advocacy

About

Independent advocacy for individuals/groups who use/have used mental health services in Midlothian and East Lothian and Lothian-wide projects. The page is for contributing information about advocacy related issues, but remarks offensive will be removed.

Mission

People with mental health difficulties should have the right to:

* decent housing with as much or as little support as they need, support which should attach to the individual and not to the place they live;
* meaningful employment suited to their abilities, and for a decent wage;
* where, because of health problems, it is not possible for the individual to work, then they should have access to disability benefits;
* access to the information necessary for them to make decisions about their lives in partnership with service providers;
* above all people should have the right to be listened to, and they must have access to independent individual and collective advocacy.

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Independent collective and individual mental health advocacy. Collective advocacy in Midlothian and East Lothian and individual advocacy in Midlothian and East Lothian. Lothian-wide projects on mental health campaigning history, personality disorder experiences, psychosis experiences and feedback to the Lothian Mental Health Strategy. Incorporating Arts as Advocacy and much more!