CAPS Independent Advocacy
CAPS is an Independent Advocacy organisation.
Independent Advocacy helps people to have as much influence and control as possible over their lives. It's about people having the right to a voice: addressing barriers and imbalances of power and ensuring that human rights are recognised, respected, and secured.
We provide individual and collective advocacy in East Lothian and Midlothian. We also host several experience-led projects across Lothian, and one Scotland-wide project for veterans.
CAPS Independent Advocacy is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation Scottish Charity number: SC021772
Last reviewed:
05/03/2024
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This project is for people who have lived experience of mental health issues who want to use the arts as a way to have their voices heard.
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If you’re a child or a young person experiencing an eating disorder, or think that you might be, it is important that you get to say how you feel and what you want.
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This project is for people who use, or have used, mental health services. People come together with a common cause to raise awareness, campaign and influence services.
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Collective Advocacy opportunities for people who live in Edinburgh and who have experience of mental health issues. People come together with a common cause to raise awareness and campaign for change.
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This project is for people who have experienced any kind of eating disorder to come together, have a collective voice and create change. It’s also known as ‘Seen But Not Heard’.
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This project is for people who have a personality disorder diagnosis or experiences that you feel fit with a personality disorder diagnosis. It brings people together to create change.
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This project is for people who have experienced psychosis to come together, have a collective voice and create change. It is facilitated by CAPS but the group decide what they want to do.
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This project is for people who have experienced trauma to come together, have a collective voice and create change. It is facilitated by CAPS but the group decide what they want to do.
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This project is for people who identify as LGBTQIA+, have experienced mental health issues and live in Edinburgh. Collective advocacy brings people together to share experiences and create change.
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Lothian Voices is a collective advocacy project bringing together people with experience of mental health issues. The group ensures that decision makers hear their views on mental health services.
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This project is for people from minority ethnic backgrounds who have experienced mental health issues and live in Edinburgh. Collective Advocacy brings people together to create change.
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Would you like to get together with other veterans to direct the way that services are provided to veterans and their families? This service is for you.
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CAPS collective advocacy groups deliver learning from lived experience. This is one of many ways that people with lived experience of mental health issues can speak up about what matters to them.
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If you are affected by drug or alcohol use you may want someone by your side to help you get your voice heard. Independent Advocacy can help you understand your options and make your own choices.
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Sometimes it can feel hard to speak up or explain everything you want to say. Independent Advocacy can help you to make your own choices, understand your options and have your voice heard.
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If you’re a child or a young person attending a Children’s Hearing, it is important that you get to say how you feel and what you want. Your Hearing is all about you.
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Sometimes it can feel hard to speak up or explain everything you want to say. Independent Advocacy can help you to make your own choices, understand your options and have your voice heard.
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We all need support to speak up sometimes. An individual advocacy worker is there to be by your side to support you to say how you feel and help you to have a stronger voice with other services.
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Set up in 2008, our aim is to reclaim and promote the history of activism and collective advocacy by people with mental health issues.
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The Peer Forum is a collective advocacy space especially for people who are working or volunteering using their own lived experience in mental health support roles in Edinburgh.
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