What services to Real Advocacy provide?

Real Advocacy specialise in Mental Health Advocacy.

Real Advocacy currently are commisioned to provide specialist mental health advocacy in a range of locations across the North West of England.

Real Advocacy provides services in both NHS and independently run in-patient settings.

Our provision delivers specialist mental health advocacy to a broad spectrum of service users including Adults and Young People.

What is Mental Health Advocacy?

Mental health advocacy aims:

• To help safeguard the rights of service users – both rights under mental health policy and law and rights as citizens
• To empower service users to make informed decisions about their care and treatment and to take greater control over their lives
• To support service users to get their views heard
• To represent the views of service users as if they were their own if the service user wishes it
• To support service users in seeking resolution to issues which concern them
• To protect service users who are particularly vulnerable for reasons of their illness or lack of capacity to make informed descisions
• To feedback issues raised by service users to those providing and commissioning services so that services an be constantly improved