Self Advocacy Guide

It was the case that before the creation of Cognitive Harness, I founded an advocacy charity for those with neurological disability, learning disability as well as mental health problems. The charity operated between September 2013-August 2018. The charity was called Fairway Advocacy and I had to bring it to a close due to only being able to secure part-time funding due to a lack of available funding pots for new start charities.

Advocacy involves helping people who are in disputes with different authorities such as housing, social work, NHS etc get their voices heard and get access to their entitlements as well as uphold and prevent the violation of their human rights.

While working at Fairway Advocacy I won funding from the Scottish Government to put together a Self Advocacy Guide teaching people how to advocate as it was recognised that there was a major shortage of advocates for those with disability needing advocacy. This Advocacy Guide therefore is a self management resource as it teaches the life skill of self advocacy. It is for this reason that Cognitive Harness see a place for the guide on its website with Cognitive Harness being an organisation with a self management ethos. Click here to download the guide