Advocacy is when someone:

• gives you information and advice

• helps you have your say

• supports you to make your own decisions.

We provide advocacy support to people with all types of disabilities.

This includes disabilities that are to do with mental health.

Our services are free.

We can support you to:

• understand your rights
• protect your rights.

Rights are rules about how everyone must treat you:

• fairly
• equally.

We can support you to build your skills so you can deal with different types of problems.

For example, problems with a:

• government or disability service

• school or university

• workplace or business.

There are some ways we can’t support you.

We can’t give you legal advice.

But we can support you to find someone who can give you legal advice.

We can’t help you deal with different problems at the same time.

We can’t help you apply to use services or manage them.

We can’t support you with advocacy if you already have someone who can support you with advocacy.

We might not be able to support you if another advocacy service has the special skills and training to help with your problem.

For example, if you need support at a police station the Justice Advocacy service can support you.

They have the right skills and training.