Stockport Total Advocacy Trust Limited, 23 High Street, Stockport, SK1 1EG  

Providing Independent Advocacy Support to individuals, groups of people, families and children

Advocacy can help adults over 16 with learning disabilities to speak up for themselves about the things that are important in their lives by:

• offering Crisis Advocacy or help in times when life is tough
• offering Long Term Advocacy for people who need someone to help them for longer periods of time.

Advocacy can help adults over 16 with learning difficulties to live full lives the same as everyone else.

Advocates can help and support you to do this until you can do it on your own.

 

Advocacy is about :

• Making choices
• Speaking up
• Helping adults (16+) with learning difficulties to get their voices and opinions heard

 

We Think that :

• People know how they want to live their life
• People should be listened to
• People should not be bullied or scared to speak up
• People should get support to speak up
• People with learning disabilities should support each other
• Advocates will help you make choices
• Advocates will be there just for you
• Advocates can help explain things to you
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What Services do we offer?

Crisis Advocacy

• Is provided by a paid worker
• Is Impartial
• Is a skilled response in a crisis
• Aims to resolve a crisis
• Ensures people listen to partners wishes
• Is short term - up tp 12 months usually

Citizen Advocacy

• Is a partnership between two people, one of them may have difficulties voicing their own opinions.
• Brings people together; it is a voice for people with learning disabilities.
• The advocate is someone who represents the wishes and views of their advocacy partner and makes them known.
• The partner may be at risk of not being heard and having their rights ignored.

Our Aims are to :

• Assist people with learning disabilities to obtain full rights and privileges as citizens
• Enable and encourage people with learning disabilities to support each other in obtaining rights and privileges as citizens

 

We aim to do this by :

• Providing help and support to people with learning disabilities on a one-to-one basis
• Promoting to society, the abilities and potential of people with learning disabilities
• Developing best practice in service provision through user consultation, feedback, monitoring and evaluation