Struggling to be heard?
Do you feel frustrated or let down by services?
Do you find it hard to voice your problems and get your needs met?
SWAN’s free Self-Advocacy Course can help give you the skills and confidence to speak up for yourself.
How is the training planned?
Each session will provide confidence building activities, and tool kits to help you self-advocate in different situations in your life.
What issues will the training help you with?
• Housing
• Employment
• Benefits
• Raising complaints
• Health & Social Care Meetings
SWAN’s Be Heard training is aimed at providing support and resources to people, providing them with the confidence and skills to self-advocate. Our training is co-designed and delivered with Peer Advocacy Coaches who are Experts by Experience. This ensures that our training is helpful for all and covers issues relevant to them.
Self-Advocacy is being able to speak up for yourself and tell people what you want and need. People who can self-advocate can make their own complaints and be part of decision making.
SWAN believes that with the right tools and resources anyone can learn to be their own advocate.
SWAN’s Be Heard training aims to increase a person’s confidence and ability to speak up by providing them with this training and additional resources.
For more information and upcoming events:
Be Heard in Bristol
Be Heard Self-Advocacy Sessions
Are you struggling to be heard and understood? Do you need support to prepare for important meetings or talk with professionals – such as the doctors, council or welfare office? Do you understand your rights?
SWAN are running a free self-advocacy drop-in session on Thursday 15 August 2024, 2pm until 4.30pm in person at Spur 3, the Vassall Centre, Gill Avenue, Bristol BS16 2QQ. Just email beheardbristol@swanadvocacy.org.uk to book your 20 minute slot.
You’re warmly invited to come along and talk to us in a non-judgemental, confidential space about increasing your confidence in speaking up. We have a free Self-advocacy Toolkit to give you too!
For more information, contact: beheardbristol@swanadvocacy.org.uk.
FREE Self-Advocacy Training
Whilst we do provide regular training and workshop sessions across the year, we can provide training and workshops when requested. Please feel free to get in contact with us if you wish to discuss the options available to you.
Call us: 03333 447928
Email us: beheardbristol@swanadvocacy.org.uk
Be Heard in Somerset
FREE Self-Advocacy Training
Whilst we do provide regular training and workshop sessions across the year, we can provide training and workshops when requested. Please feel free to get in contact with us if you wish to discuss the options available to you.
Call us: 03333 447928
Email us: beheard@swanadvocacy.org.uk
Be Heard on the Isle of Wight
Our Self-Advocacy programme provides self and peer advocacy workshops, and one-to-one advocacy coaching, for vulnerable people to develop and practice their self-advocacy skills.
More information is coming soon, but if you want to be the first to know, why not drop us an email? iow@swanadvocacy.org.uk