What is Self-Advocacy?

Self Advocacy Training is intended for individuals with mental distress. The Training is designed to help people who need to develop self confidence, skills, awareness and knowledge about services available to them e.g. Debt Management, Self Esteem and Mental health Act, and more. It is free for everyone regardless of whether they have a personal budget. If the individual is with a CMHT then we require that the Care Coordinator fills in a referral form and sends it to Michelle Savioz michellesavioz@cooltanarts.org.uk.

Get yourself heard, listened to, and your views acted upon!
Places are still available – core training places are free and available for people from across London, and beyond! Please contact us as there is no fixed joining date, we’ll advise on the most appropriate date to take up the training.

Self-Advocacy Skills Training May/June 2013

• Tuesday 28th May- Speaking Up with Confidence 11am-1pm
• Tuesday 4^th June- Non-verbal Skills for Communication 11-1pm
• Wednesday 5^th June- Women’s Group 4-6pm
• Tuesday 11^th June- Personal Independence Payment- by Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) 11-1pm
• Wednesday 12^th June- Men’s Group 3-5pm
• Saturday 15^th June- Mad Hatter’s Tea Party 1-6pm: (2x 1 hour workshops from Self Advocacy Trainers);
• Mindfulness Attention (by Michelle Savioz)
• ‘I’m a Commissioner, Get me Out of Here!’ (by Phil Ruthen)
• Tuesday 18^th June- Care Plans & Advance Directives with David Gray 11-1pm
• Tuesday 25^th June- Pilot of AIM Awards 11-1pm & 2-4pm

All workshops are based at CoolTan Arts unless specified. Please check in advance with us – thank you.

Also, if you have an interest in disability civil rights and/or background in adult education and life-long learning courses it would be great to hear from you – project volunteers to assist very welcome!

Phone, email, write or call into CoolTan Arts to arrange to meet about the Self-Advocacy Skills Training at times outside of the advertised times. Ask for:

Phil Ruthen
Advocacy Training Coordinator
phil@cooltanarts.org.uk

or …

Michelle Savioz
Self-Advocacy Trainer and Project Administrator
michellesavioz@cooltanarts.org.uk

tel: 020 7701 2696
mobile: 0798 565 8443

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