Self Advocacy In Groups
This is the Resource Page for the Self Advocacy Groups that want start a group in a local community .
It talks about how to get people together and what a self advocacy group can do.
It is important to learn self-advocacy skills because it helps you decide what you want and what is possible for you to expect.
When you have good self-advocacy skills you can have more control and make the life decisions that are best for you.
Self-advocacy helps to empower you, to speak-up for yourself and make decisions about your life
People often don’t know much about people with learning disabilities or mental health issues.
The things that people read about in the newspapers, books, TV or the Internet, are often negative, unhelpful or simply untrue.
In the past people with disabilities have often been shut away so people have not met us and got to know us, what we are like or what we think.
Self-advocates are people like you who want to stand up and speak for themselves.
Many people now with learning disabilities or mental health issues have been forming themselves into self-advocacy groups.
Here to is useful resource for groups to is The Community Tool Box
These are a plain language packages of information to help self advocates to start a self advocacy group in their community.
Anyone can start a group!
all you need to do is download Adobe Reader first and get your copy.
Download the full document to start a self-advocacy group made by Gregg Schiller here.
Below is a Self Advocacy Group Start up Kit that was made by Inclusion BC you can download all 28 pages
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