SIAA facilitates many training events, roundtables, and information sharing sessions specifically intended for independent advocacy organisations. These events are member-only and designed to provide you with new skills, build organisational capacity and provide an opportunity for you to share your views on key policy topics relevant to human rights and independent advocacy.
SIAA also run regular online peer support sessions. The peer support sessions are informal opportunities for you to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support. We run sessions for managers and sessions for staff once a month.
Find out more about upcoming events and peer support sessions, and sign up below!
We will start with a slot for ‘reflective practice’, taking place in small groups, without an SIAA staff member present. This will be followed by a whole-group discussion, facilitated by SIAA staff. We want the topics of our peer support sessions to be member-led and reflect your changing priorities and concerns.
SIAA's state of the sector surveys, conducted at the start of 2021, indicated that staff across the sector were keen for managers to prioritise staff wellbeing. The session will focus on sharing what works around supporting staff wellbeing in your organisations, with opportunities for you to share examples and expertise.
We will start with a slot for ‘reflective practice’, taking place in small groups, without an SIAA staff member present. This will be followed by a whole-group discussion, facilitated by SIAA staff, in which staff can share learning and ideas around collective advocacy, with a focus on how collective advocacy in Scotland has changed since the beginning of the pandemic.
We want the topics of our peer support sessions to be member-led and reflect your changing priorities and concerns. This session will provide a chance for you to discuss current issues (as well as offer and ask for support) and help establish your priorities for future topic-based sessions.
The roundtable will be an opportunity for members to contribute to the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland Evaluation Project and share experiences of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland practice and processes. The event will be taking place on Wednesday 15 July, from 10-11 am. Please use this form to sign up, and we will…
We will start with a slot for ‘reflective practice’, taking place in small groups, without an SIAA staff member present. This will be followed by a whole-group discussion, facilitated by SIAA staff, in which staff can share expertise about non-instructed advocacy, including what has changed around non-instructed advocacy since the beginning of the pandemic.
SIAA is in the very early stages of developing a campaign lobbying for the inclusion of a right to independent advocacy in the proposed new Human Rights Bill. We're delighted to invite you, our members, to this roundtable to discuss the campaign in more detail and hear your thoughts. The event will take place online, on Thursday 29 July, from 2-3 pm.
Please use this form to sign up, for the peer support for managers session which will take place on Tuesday 3 August, 3.30-4.30 pm, which will look at 'managing capacity'.
SIAA held a very successful roundtable with members and the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), in February to discuss youth justice and independent advocacy. We're delighted to invite you to a follow up roundtable taking place on Thursday 12 August, from 2-3.30 pm. We aim to have further discussions about practical ways…
Please use this form to sign up, and we will email you details of the Zoom call on which will take place on Tuesday 24 August, 3.30-4.30 pm, looking at the topic of volunteers.
Peer support sessions are informal opportunities for managers at SIAA member organisations to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support. This session will focus on leadership.
I’ve found the Managers Peer to Peer support sessions invaluable; it feels supportive and safe and as a relatively new CEO it really has helped build my confidence as well as relationships with peers. Thank you.
SIAA member, 2022
I have enjoyed the SIAA training events I have attended and I have been able to attend more than I would have in the past due to courses being on zoom etc.
SIAA member, 2022
I found it really helpful to be connected to a larger group and to hear the variety of perspectives from others as we all face the impact of the coronavirus on our organisations, people, clients and key stakeholders.
SIAA member, 2020
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