Connected Voice Advocacy scrubbing up well for the Kate Mercer national advocacy awards this year AAW23

@mumof3amigos Changing Our Lives Kate Mercer It was a great first day wasn’t it! Meeting in person just allows the conversations to flow so well and to collaborate ❤️

So proud of the small and mighty team at Connect Voice Advocacy. What a wonderful night. Thank you Kate Mercer for another brilliant award ceremony. #aaw23

Mental Health Act reform ❌️ Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (LPS) reform ❌️ With discussion of (hopefully) an updated MCA Codes of Practice, it's clear there is a lot we can still do, to improve people's experiences. Time to look at rights-based, trauma informed practice.

Kate Mercer brilliant day yesterday Arden Hotel NEC interacting with other bad ass advocates. Loved it #AAW23

you are indeed a bad ass

This week, we, @yaamhep and Bradford and Craven Autism AIM won the Outstanding Service prize at the 2023 #NationalAdvocacyAwards hosted by Kate Mercer! Thanks to everyone who has helped us along the way; read about our big win here: leedsautismaim.org.uk/2023/11/09/aut… #AdvocacyAwarenessWeek #AAW23 🏆

Outstanding Service Prize - 2023! I LOVE being part of the Leeds Autism AIM team - it feels like a great place to work to make the world a better place for #autistic people... ...so it's great to have this recognised by Kate Mercer and the #NationalAdvocacyAwards Yippee!

Congratulations to Autism AIM. Worthy winners doing outstanding work. leedsautismaim.org.uk/2023/11/09/aut…

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.NHS England has published five decision support tools to assist #SharedDecisionMaking conversation between clinician and patient by explaining treatment, care and support to help the patient consider what matters most to them. #PersonalisedCare Sam Finnikin england.nhs.uk/decision-suppo…

Today's 'Wednesday's Webinar' is looking at the type of practical support IMHA's offer people. Join us at midday Free to everyone enrolled on the L4 qualification and Black Belt Advocates blackbeltadvocacy.com/what-is-bba

Advocacy Conference presentations and video's now available from the 2023 event. Huge thanks to our amazing speakers and sponsors Anna Severwright @NDTiGail Kirsty-Louise Stuart Peter Edwards Paradigm Irwin Mitchell blackbeltadvocacy.com/2023-conference

Fabulous blog from Rhiannnydd. Love reading about your experience, thank you for being part of the event 😊🥰

Three free interactive #webinars in March covering evidence and recommendations from our Review of Advocacy report for NHS England 1) Advocates 2) Commissioners 3) People and families who draw on advocacy. ℹ️ conta.cc/4950Ouh

Sadly, we have had to close applications for this service in less than 24 hours because we've had 7 times the number of applications that we have places. Grant funders, this is the level of unmet need. National and local government, this is the level of unmet need.

'This starts in the community and ends in the community.' Well worth watching the entire interview with the superb Alexis Quinn Unbroken, who underlines that this scandalous state failure goes far beyond abusive detentions in psychiatric hospitals bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… (20 mins in)

.Alexis Quinn Unbroken is such a powerful advocate for the rights of autistic people. Please watch and share!