Self advocacy or speaking up for yourself is often not easy. There are a number of ways you can get support to speak up or join others who also want to speak up and have their say.
Listed below are some of the organisations that may be able to offer you support to speak up:
Sheffield Citizen Advocacy offers individual advocacy support to people with learning disabilities. Speaking Up For Action is an advocacy organisation which offers individual and group support to people with learning disabilities.
Burton Street Project offer advocacy support groups and also individual advocacy support to people with profound and complex needs.
Mencap also support an advocacy group known as ‘Voices and Choices’.
Sheffield Parliament (Learning Disability) meets on the 3rd Thursday every month at the Town Hall and is an opportunity for people with learning disabilities to come together and talk about things that are important to them.
For more information about the Parliament please contact Speaking Up For Action on 0114 272 7723.
Sheffield Citizen Advocacy 0114 276 3110
Speaking Up For Action 0114 272 7723
Burton Street Project 0114 233 2980 (Extension 240)
Mencap 0114 276 7757
