Advocacy
This section contains examples of different advocacy systems and how this can be integrated and play a useful part in enabling and empowering the individual in both understanding and deciding on options as to ones care.
 | Title: PP Article Side by Side Charter Published: January 2006 Summary: Side by Side - A Charter of Standards for Mental Health Services in Tees Valley and North East Yorkshire. The aim was to produce a Charter of Standards for mental health services, written by service users and carers, to inform other service users and carers about what they can expect from the services they access. |
 | Title: Summary of service user involvement Published: January 2006 Summary: Process and evaluation - Summary documenting the importance of involving service users and carers in learning opportunities. The TUILIP Project Service User Involvement Group in Acute Mental Health, Nottingham. |
 | Title: Ten ESC Framework Published: August 2004 Summary: The Ten Essential Shared Capabilities - A Framework for the Whole of the Mental Health Workforce. The Ten ESC, developed in consultation with service users and carers together with practitioners, provide in one overarching statement, the essential capabilities required to achieve best practice for education and training of all staff who work in mental health services. |
 | Title: Holford House "SPACE" Summary: Description of project - The aim of this project is to create a spiritual "SPACE" in Holford House a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) based in Somerset. The project will build upon skills and knowledge gained from an existing spirituality project in 2002 that made recommendations from service users/survivors as to how mental health services have helped or hindered the spiritual and religious life of users/survivors. Title: Project aims and objectives Summary: SPACE - Spiritual use, Positive feelings, Activity to fulfil spiritual needs, Closeness to others and self, Environment. |
 | Title: Navigating mental health services Summary: Introduction to mental health service, may be useful for service user/carer groups or presentation to non-professional staff or student nurses. |
 | Title: Users voices Summary: The main purpose of User-Focused Monitoring (UFM) is systematically to find out what mental health service users think about living in the community, of their services and of their experiences of being in hospital. UFM questionnaires all included questions that covered the key areas of: information, the care delivery process, clinical issues, mental health crises, user involvement, advocacy, health records and complaints and user satisfaction with care. |