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. This includes people who are:

• Ethnically marginalised communities
• Mental health needs or Learning Disabilities
• Physical Disabilities
• Over 55 years old
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Transgender
• Refugees and Asylum Seeker

Hate crime advocacy: supports people across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear who have experienced or are at risk of hate crime.

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.

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 and Changing Lives. The project helps families in Newcastle who are experiencing crisis and hardship

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

This service is ran by Connected Voice. They are commissioned by North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board.