Sunderland Advocacy For Empowerment (SAFE)
What is Advocacy?
Citizen advocacy is a one to one partnership between a trained volunteer citizen advocate and a person who is not in a good position to exercise his or her rights. An advocate's role is to ensure that the person has a say in what is happening, and what is important to them i.e. about their treatment or services they receive. An advocate is about supporting a person to state a case, influencing decisions, ending assumptions, redressing the balance of power and being more aware of and exercising rights. The advocate could accompany the partner to Multi Agency Panel for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (MAPPVA) strategy meetings and support the person through the MAPPVA process if appropriate.
What do we provide?
SAFE provides direct advocacy support to adults who have a learning disability, and who may have suffered or are suffering abuse.
This project Is:
Independant of statutory services
A free confidential service
Believes in empowering people to speak for themselves
Believes in equal opportunities
Recognises the right of each individual to take control of his or her own life
Where Can I Get More Information?
For contact details please see the 'Contact Us' page. If you would like more information on this service, such as:
Who is the Service for?
What can an advocate do?
How do I contact an Advocate?
Who can refer?
please follow the following link to the SAFE Website: