Community Advocacy Service (Mental Health and Well Being)
The Plymouth Community Advocacy and Well Being Service is a free and confidential service for anyone using community based NHS Mental Health services in Plymouth.
What is Advocacy?
"Advocacy is taking action to help people, say what they want, protect their rights, represent their interests and obtain services they need. Advocates and advocacy schemes work in partnership with the people, they support and take their side. Advocacy promotes social equality and social justice."
Extract from “The Advocacy Charter” 2006
The Community Advocacy Service (Mental Health and Well Being) can:
- Support you in dealing with any health and related social care problems you may be experiencing.
- It can help you speak up and get your voice heard by the professionals involved in your care.
- Speak on your behalf when you want us to.
- Provide information to help you make an informed choice.
- Help to protect your rights and refer you on to other services if necessary.
Service User Comments:
- "...yours has been the only service that actually achieved anything for me....thank you, it is truly appreciated".
- "I certainly feel I would not have got anywhere with my doctor without the Advocacy Services' help".
- "The Advocacy Service provided a favourable outcome to my problem".
Contact Us
For further information please contact Della Sutton, Community Advocate (Mental Health and Well Being) by:
- telephone: 01752 201766
- fax: 01752 202214
- email: della@plymouthguild.org.uk
- post: Plymouth Guild, Ernest English House, Buckwell Street, Plymouth PL1 2DA