National Advocacy Conference during Advocacy Awareness Week 2023: be part of something special
National Advocacy Conference
This year’s conference has a wealth of interesting content. It is both an in-person event in Birmingham (6-7 November) and also has free online sessions (8-10 November). The conference timetable includes:
Talks including:
- The role of advocacy in improving social care
- Legal rights of homeless young people
- Putting co-production at the heart of advocacy
- The role of the litigation friend
- End of life care
- Mental capacity and sex
- Keeping on the right side of the law: topical mental capacity issues
- The power of intuition: using your gut in advocacy.
Specialist stream:
- Improving the impact of advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who have been in (or need to get out of) in-patient settings.
Practical advocacy skills:
- Developing courage, influence and power
Free virtual online sessions including:
- Changing understanding of Autism
- Substituted parenting
- Dementia and hope
- Meaningful rights to home.
National Advocacy Awards ceremony
There are discounted tickets for in-person events and a number of fully-funded tickets for self-advocates, family carers and people who draw on advocacy, health or care services. These will be allocated on a first come, first served basis by request to kate.mercer@katemercer-training.com
For more information and to book tickets about the National Advocacy Conference
Advocacy Awareness Week 6-10 November 2023
This year’s theme is going back to basics and exploring All About Advocacy – what Advocacy is, what Advocacy isn’t, what Advocates do, why advocacy is important and how Advocacy can help people.
Have your say
As part of this year’s Advocacy Awareness Week National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) would really like to know more about what you think about advocacy. Lots of people say they don’t know enough about advocacy and so this year NDTi want to help explain what advocacy is to as many people as possible. You can say what it means to you in this short form. Your answers will be completely anonymous. Some of the thoughts and ideas, and stories will be shared throughout Advocacy Awareness Week in videos, graphics and in advocacy resources, highlighting how advocacy supports people and why advocacy is important to people. What is Advocacy?
Search #AAW22 to see the fantastic stories, artwork, blogs, videos and case studies that were created last year for further inspiration.
Use #AAW23 and #WhatIsAdvocacy for all your Advocacy Awareness Week posts
Find out more about Advocacy Awareness Week 2023
