NHS Complaints Advocacy Independent NHS Complaints Advocacy in Bradford Expand Advocates will help you to navigate the NHS complaints systems, regardless of which NHS service you are wishing to complain about. They will guide and help with correspondence, as well as provide information about your options, and provide support in meetings relating to your complaint. They have a website with dedicated information: Complaints Advocacy Bradford
Transitional Providing Advocacy through your transition in services Expand This advocacy service is for people who are having their mental health services reduced, such as leaving an acute mental health ward, or being discharged from the community mental health team. This project aims to help you stay mentally healthy by identifying support networks, accessing other services and empowering you to move forward from the more intense support you may have been receiving. Currently funded by Lloyds Bank Foundation until Jan 2019.
Forensic Providing Independent Mental Health Advocacy for those at Moorlands View, Bradford Expand This service is primarily a statutory service under the Mental Health Act, providing a voice to those in forensic services, including attending ward rounds and meetings with you. If you are detained under a section, you are legally entitled to this advocacy service. We are hoping that we will secure further funding for this project so that we can support people moving in to the community after discharge.
Community Advocacy for anyone experiencing mental health issues that feel like they need support to be understood and heard. Expand This project is for people who need a voice but don’t fit in to any of the categories where there is a legal entitlement to advocacy. This may be that you are experiencing mental health problems but struggling to get help via your GP, or that you simply don’t know who to tell and what to say.
Low mood, anxiety and depression Replace this with your content Expand This project is currently not funded. Support us gain funding by taking part in the 500/100 Challenge The aim of this project is to work with people experiencing low mood, depression or anxiety, but that are not entitled to ‘secondary mental health services’ (e.g community mental health team). This is designed to be intensive advocacy and mentoring, providing experts by experience to support and act as a voice when you don’t feel able, as well as offering options, ideas and choices to help manage symptoms in the present and in the future.