We have a schedule, speakers and workshops confirmed for next month’s Empowerment Through Self-Advocacy event. It has plenty on offer for anyone working in Leeds’ voluntary sector about how self-advocacy can support the people and communities they work with.

Agenda

This is the agenda for what’s happening on the day and when:

  • 9:30am-10am: Registration and stalls
  • 10am-11:15am: Talks
    • Using Advocacy and Self advocacy approaches to support your communities
    • Presentations from Leeds Refugee Forum and Lippy People
  • 11:15am-11:30am: Break and refreshments
  • 11:30am-12:30pm: Workshops
  • 12:45pm-1:30pm: Lunch, Stalls and networking

Workshops

We will have four free workshops running at the same time that you can choose from. Each have a focus on how self-advocacy can empower people from marginalised communities to speak up for themselves and their rights.  

1: How self-advocacy approaches and tools can support communities 

This workshop is about how using a self-advocacy approach and bespoke self-advocacy resources can help people and communities access services they need and reduce inequalities. It will look at how our free resources can help you and how you can create your own or adapt existing self-advocacy tools to suit your community’s needs. 

2: Health Complaints Advocacy – helping to improve your local healthcare services 

Health Complaints Advocacy can help you or the people you support to improve how local health services work. It will cover how using self-advocacy resources and Health Complaints Advocacy can support individuals to get positive outcomes and reduce health inequalities. 

3: Empowering people with learning disabilities 

In this workshop, led by our Asking You! Team, we will look at how self-advocacy can help empower people with learning disabilities to speak up for themselves and their rights in a variety of ways. This can include using Easy Read self-advocacy resources and accessing training. 

4: Increasing access to services for autistic adults 

Led by our Autism AIM team, this workshop will look at how self-advocacy can help autistic adults to gain access to services. This includes the use of their extensive range of self-advocacy resources and services themselves working with autistic adults to remove any barriers to getting support. 

When and where is the event? 

It is on Friday 13th June from 9:30am to 1:30pm, taking place at the St George’s Conference Centre in Leeds. You can find it at this address: 

St George’s Conference Centre
60 Great George Street
Leeds
LS1 3DL 

Information on how to get to the venue, accessibility and parking is available on their website. 

If you would like to attend, please RSVP by clicking on the button below, identifying which workshop you want to take part in.  

For any enquiries about the event, please either call our office on 0113 244 0606 and ask for Vicky or email office@advonet.org.uk.