Appendix 3

Myth Busting – Advocacy is not…

  • making decisions for an advocacy partner or group
  • giving advice or telling an advocacy partner or group what to do
  • providing mediation
  • providing counselling
  • providing befriending
  • providing care and support
  • solving all someone’s problems for them
  • providing therapy
  • creating a dependency
  • acting in the interests or wishes other than those of an advocacy partner or group
  • agreeing with everything a person says and doing anything a person asks