Connected Voice Advocacy

Connected Voice Advocacy provide advocacy services to help you to get your voice heard. An Advocate will help you speak up for yourself, find out about your rights, explore your options, make decisions and choices or get services or support:

Health and care advocacy: They help adults in Newcastle and Gateshead who need support with health and care issues and/or are in vulnerable circumstances. This includes people who are:

LBTQIA+
Ethnically marginalised
Refugees and asylum seekers
Over 55 years old
Discriminated or treated unfairly
Experiencing financial crisis and hardship
Affected by racism

And people who have:

Mental health needs
A learned disability
A physical disability
Acquired brain injury

And who:

Require support to make their views and feelings known
Have inappropriate support, or lack support from services or family
Have no-one independent with their interests at heart
Are aged 18 and over

They also support people who have been targeted because of race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity who live in the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner area (Northumberland, Tyne & Wear) who has:

Experienced a hate crime
Is at risk of a hate crime
Perceives themselves to be at risk of a hate crime
Is affected by hate crime

Also available is their:

Help through crisis project: Connected Voice Advocacy also deliver advocacy support as part of the Help through crisis project in partnership with North East Law Centre. The project helps individuals in Newcastle who are experiencing crisis and hardship.

DIY Advocate®: DIY Advocate® is an online tool to work through problems. It helps organise your problem step by step, think about your options, make decisions, get more information and make an action plan. It gives you tools to make your voice heard and have your rights upheld. It can help you get the services you need.

You can refer yourself or someone else to Connected Voice Advocacy on their website.

Connected Voice also offer training resources for professionals:

Hate crime and anti-social behaviour training draws on research undertaken in partnership with Durham and Northumbria Universities as part of the development of the HATE ID App. The app helps frontline staff identify hate incidents more effectively and ensures victims can access the right support.

To find our more click here for contact details Hate Crime Advocacy – Connected Voice.

To download the App, click here.

Social Justice Champions: Supporting people, helping them to be heard and protecting their rights helps professionals provide better support to people in vulnerable situations. This course teaches the core skills and frameworks of advocacy to help your clients achieve social justice.

Further information on this training can be found here.

Supporting people with neurological conditions: Helping them to be heard and protecting their rights is a course for people who support people with neurological conditions.

Find further information here.

Putting People First: Person-centred approaches to supporting individuals is for organisations that support people aged 18 or over, and teaches about person centred approaches to care.

Training details here.