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CAPS Independent Advocacy

CAPS Independent Advocacy provides individual issue-based independent advocacy to:

East Lothian and Midlothian:

  • adults experiencing mental health issues
  • adults affected by drug or alcohol use

Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian:

  • Adults and young people aged 14+ who identify as LGBTQIA+

They provide independent advocacy (instructed and non-instructed) to children young people aged 5-18 who live in East Lothian or Midlothian going through the children’s hearings.

CAPS provides independent collective advocacy to following adults in following groups:

  • Edinburgh and the Lothians: Experiences of: Eating Disorders; Personality Disorder; Psychosis; Trauma; Lothian Voices; Oor Mad History; Arts as Advocacy and Out Of Sight Out of Mind for people with mental health issues
  • Midlothian Voices for residents who access mental health services.
  • Edinburgh Collective Advocacy for residents experiencing mental health issues
  • East Lothian: for adult residents who use drugs or alcohol
  • Edinburgh and the Lothians: for adults with neurological conditions

Additional info:

Organisation details:

Phone: 0131 273 5116 (General enquiries & collective advocacy), 0131 273 5118 (Individual advocacy workers)
Referrals: Phone; Email; Website form
Charity No: SC021772
SIAA Member: Yes

Old StablesEskmills ParkMusselburghEast LothianEH21 7PQ

Local authority area(s): East Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, West Lothian
Advocacy topic(s): Adult Support and Protection, Children and young people, Children’s hearings, Drug or alcohol use, Eating Disorders, LGBTQIA+, Mental health, Personality disorder, Veterans
Advocacy model(s): Collective Advocacy, Individual Issue-Based Advocacy, Non-Instructed Advocacy

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