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The Peer Advocacy Training Programme
has been running for the past twelve years and has seen many changes
in its make up and delivery. The objective of the training however
has not changed from its focus on the empowerment of service users
and carers from Black and Ethnic Minority backrounds. The training aims to give people an understanding of their rights within the mental health system. The Mental Health System can be complicated and difficult to understand. The Peer Advocacy Training Programme is aimed at giving normal people the ability to assert their rights in a formal psychiatric setting, which can be a confusing and intimidating.
We are now able to offer graduates of the Peer Advocacy Training Programme seven weeks work experience at the Advocacy Project. This allows them to put into context and , in some circumstances, practice the theoretical skills they had attained on the training programme. |
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Following our Peer Advocacy Training Programme we are now able to give graduates the opportunity to develop the theoretical skills they have learnt in a practical environment. The placement scheme is based on the graduate student seeing how the training they have received is applied in the setting of a fully operational advocacy service. Over a seven week period the graduates will be given an understanding of the day to day routines all staff must perform to ensure that all are clients needs are satisfied and the office is run smoothly. The placement will be given the opportunity to interact with members from our sister organisation Mary Seacole House, take on daily responsibilities in the office, attended psychiatric units, meet with statutory and voluntary bodies and gain a working understanding of what is required to work as an advocate. The whole process is aimed at empowering the students from the Peer Advocacy Training Programme and enabling them to speak for themselves and others in a formal setting. |
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