CAPS Independent Advocacy provides individual issue-based independent advocacy to:
- people aged between 18-65 and resident in East Lothian or Midlothian in the community or in a hospital who need support to have their voice heard due to mental health issues or drug or alcohol use;
- people aged 18-65 experiencing an eating disorder who live anywhere in Lothian;
- people aged 16-65 who identify as LGBTQIA+ who live in Midlothian, Edinburgh, or East Lothian.
They provide independent advocacy to children young people aged 5-18 who live in East Lothian or Midlothian going through the children’s hearings.
CAPS provides independent collective advocacy to following groups:
- Lothian: Eating Disorders; Personality Disorder; Psychosis; Trauma; Oor Mad History; Arts as Advocacy and the Peer Forum – all for people aged 18-65.
- Edinburgh: experience-led groups for people from ethnic minority backgrounds; LGBTQI+ people – both for people aged 18-65.
- East Lothian: for residents aged 18-65 who use drugs and alcohol.
- Military veterans anywhere in Scotland.
Additional info:
• One to one and collective advocacy for people aged 18-65 with mental health issues.
• One to one advocacy for people aged 18-65 with drug or alcohol use.
• One to one advocacy for children and young people 5-18 who are being supported by the Children’s Hearings System.
• Collective advocacy to people with experience of mental health issues across Lothian.
• Collective advocacy to people with experience of all kinds of eating disorders, who live in Lothian.
• Collective Advocacy for People from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds in Edinburgh.
• Collective advocacy for LGBTQIA+ people in Edinburgh.
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