Angus Independent Advocacy provide individual issue-based and collective independent advocacy to children, young people and adults living in Angus.
They support adults aged 18+ with mental ill health, learning disability, dementia, acquired brain injury, as well as older people. They also provide support to parents and kinship carers with long term health conditions, literacy issues, additional support needs, substance use issues.
They provide peer advocacy to people aged 18+, living in Angus, whose lives are being affected by drugs or alcohol use, and those who are in substance use recovery. They can also support relatives or carers of people affected by substance use. Peer advocacy is provided in an individual and group setting.
They provide independent advocacy to children and young people aged up to 18 going through children’s hearings.
They provide collective advocacy to children and young people aged 0-26 affected by substance use. Project focuses on early intervention, family empowerment, rights awareness, and co-designed approaches rooted in trauma-informed, neurodiverse-friendly practice.
They provide non-instructed independent advocacy to adults and children.
Additional info:
• Adults over 16 with learning disability, mental health problems, dementia and older people
• Children subject to Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act
Organisation details:
