1. Helping you have your say
Mental Health Advocacy
Helping you have your say
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2. Who we are We are called seAp We work in in the South of England
This is about some help we can give you if you live in Cornwall, Plymouth, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Kent or Essex

3. How we can help We can help if you have a mental health problem
This is to do with the way you think and feel
It means you may feel upset, worried or angry a lot

4. How we can help We can help you to: speak up and say what you want
talk about the care you get
say what you want to happen

5. How we can help
The support we give you is called Advocacy

6. What is advocacy?
Advocacy is when someone supports you to have your say

7. How we will work with you
We will talk to you to find out what you want and how you feel
We will listen to you

8. How we will work with you
We can talk to other people or groups for you

9. How we will work with you
We can help if doctors say you are not very well and have to stay in hospital
We can get someone called an IMHA advocate to support you

10. How we will work with you
Our staff have very good training
We always try to work in the best way

11. How to contact us
Phone
Text SEAP (followed by your message) to 80800
Website
Send a letter to:
seAp
PO Box 375
Hastings
TN34 3HU