Advocacy

If you feel that your views regarding your care, mental health treatment, or any decision that may affect your daily life, are not being heard or acted upon, our Advocates can empower you to have your voice heard and be at the centre of informed decision-making about your life.

We offer different types of advocacy:

Professional/Case Advocacy - to help you make an informed decision around specific issues you may be experiencing
Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) - qualifying patients detained under the Mental Health Act are entitled to an independent advocate
Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) - support and representation for people who lack mental capacity
Care Act Advocacy – support with decisions about your care
Relevant Person’s Representative (RPR) - someone who represents and supports you if you are being cared for under Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLs)

Not every service currently offers every type of advocacy.

We provide the following Advocacy services:

South Tyneside Advocacy

Waiting List Initiative

MHM’s ‘Waiting List Initiative’ has been developed to support IAPT services to reduce waiting times to enable clients to begin talking therapy treatment within 6 and 18 weeks.
Kent and Medway Safe Havens
Our Support Continues

Please be assured that during the Coronavirus Pandemic our services will continue to provide support via other non face-to-face channels. We have additional telephone support, text, video face-to-face and webchat facilities available to be there for you.
Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Following the advice issued on the 16th March in order to protect the safety and wellbeing of our clients and staff as much as possible, MHM will be moving all support services to telephone only support in the coming days.