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Welcome to the CAPS Independent Advocacy newsletter!
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Exploring Experiences of Psychosis: a workshop
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This workshop is created by people who have experienced psychosis, to educate people, tackle stigma and create conversation. We will be offering perspectives about what psychosis is like from the inside, and inviting responses. This is an opportunity for anyone interested in hearing from people what it’s like to experience psychosis. You could be a worker, a person with their own experiences of mental health issues, a carer, or you just want to know more. It's on 12th September at Norton park in Edinburgh and it’s free. Find out more and book.
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Eating Disorders: Through My Eyes – a zine-making workshop
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Interested in exploring eating disorder activism in creative ways? Come and join our zine-making workshop! Today zines are still used as acts of resistance, and in the mental health community they encourage self-expression and activism. Using the theme of ‘Eating Disorders: Through my eyes’, this workshop will provide all the materials you need and guide you through the process of making a zine. There’s no previous skills required, just you and your experiences! This workshop takes place on 21st September at Norton Park in Edinburgh and is for people who have their own lived experience of eating disorders / disordered eating (no diagnosis is required). It is free. Find out more and register.
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Out of Sight Out of Mind - coming soon!
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Excitement is building for the 12th Out of Sight Out of Mind exhibition! Sprawling three floors of Summerhall, with artworks made by more than 300 people. It will include films, paintings, sculptures, photography, installations and more. Each expression is beautifully unique. All of the artworks are made by people with experience of having a mental health issue, they will explore many topics: mental health, a joy of making, a personal story of another sort and others. Many have responded to the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival theme of In/Visible, and express the tension between being seen and unseen. The exhibition will take place from 9 to 27 October 2024, at Summerhall, Edinburgh. Find out more.
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Independent Advocacy for people who use drugs or alcohol
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Our advocacy worker Amy will be at The Ridge in Dunbar from 12 noon to 4pm on Friday 13th September during their Festival Of Recovery. She can tell you all about a CAPS project for people who need help to have their voices heard because of drug or alcohol use. You can pop in to see her there and find out more about Independent Advocacy and how it can help.
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Edinburgh Collective Advocacy
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Do you have experience of mental health issues and live in Edinburgh? Do you want to meet like-minded people and come together to have your say about information and services for people with experience of mental health issues? The Edinburgh Collective Advocacy project is excited to welcome you. Our purpose is to bring together groups of individuals with a common cause to raise awareness, campaign and influence service planning and provision. The group comes together to talk about mental health services and other issues that are important to them. Get in touch with Angharad to find out more at angharad@capsadvocacy.org or 07989 402 612. CAPS also facilitates the Peer Forum in Edinburgh, for people who are peer workers or volunteers – get in touch with Irene to find out more: irene@capsadvocacy.org or 07881 377 635.
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Children's rights and Independent Advocacy
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Independent Advocacy is all about people with less power having their voices heard. Children, in particular, may often have difficulty speaking up. Independent Advocacy is an important way for them to get help saying what they need. Although children with mental health issues have the right to Independent Advocacy, in reality very few are actually able to access it. This is because many local authorities do not fund this type of Independent Advocacy. Children are missing out on a service they legally have the right to. CAPS welcomes the incorporation of the UNCRC into Scots law as an important step forward in strengthening children’s rights. However it’s important to make sure that those rights can be realised. Read more in this article.
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Lived experience and Edinburgh’s plans for care reviews
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Many people with experience of mental health issues rely on essential support services. These services are vital to ensure people have an acceptable standard of living and help them stay mentally well. So when in April 2024, Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership announced plans for savings within mental health services, people with mental health issues were concerned. Find out more in this article about a meeting between people with mental health issues and Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership.
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More Good Days consultation
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There’s an opportunity to make your views known on Edinburgh’s draft strategic plan More Good Days. The plan will set the direction of the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP) for the next three years, and lay the foundations for health and social care provision in Edinburgh, so it’s a way to raise our voices about what we need. EHSCP ask that people read through the draft strategy, then respond to a questionnaire. Anyone can respond as an individual through the website but if you’d like to talk to others about this and submit a collective response, please ask our Edinburgh Collective advocacy worker Angharad at angharad@capsadvocacy.org or 07989 402 612. Find out more about the consultation.
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Earlier this year, a team from CAPS took part in a national ‘art relay’, where artworks were passed throughout Scotland from one art group to another, and then each group made their own. You can find out more and watch a film about the artwork they made on this page.
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Poster abstract by the Experiences of Eating Disorders Collective Advocacy group
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The Eating Disorders Collective Advocacy group is submitting a poster abstract to the NHS Research Scotland Mental Health - Annual Scientific Meeting 2024. The poster will be about the group’s research into men and eating disorders. Through the group, people with lived experience of eating disorders come together and share their stories to create awareness, to help educate others and to reduce stigma. They make the decisions about what is important to them and how this is conveyed. The group determined that they wanted to do research into the little understood area of men and eating disorders. Find out more about the group here. Find out more about the conference here.
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Very best wishes from all at CAPS!
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CAPS Independent Advocacy is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation Scottish Charity number: SC021772 |
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