Collective Advocacy in the Community
As well as collective advocacy at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, AdvoCard provides independent collective advocacy in the community.
What do we do in Edinburgh?
- Work with service user groups such as Edinburgh Users Forum (EUF) and SEASONS and:
- Organise and facilitate service user meetings, support service users or get their views heard at strategic meetings.
- Inform people of changes, new policies and consultations. Make policy, strategic documents and information accessible to service user groups and assist them to get involved in consultation.
- Help to create new campaigning groups.
- Build effective partnerships between service users and professionals.
- Run issue-based and user-led research projects to gather views and experiences. Write reports and lobby at local and government level.
- Build effective partnerships between service users and professionals.
What is Edinburgh Users Forum (EUF)?
EUF is an independent service user-led collective advocacy group that exists to:
- Give a voice for people in Edinburgh who use, or have used, mental health services.
- Promote the interests of people in Edinburgh who use, or have used, mental health services.
- Work in partnership with the people who plan, pay for and provide mental health services.
- Identify gaps in mental health services and campaign to have them filled.
- Work out what our priorities for new services are, and make sure they are widely known.
- Take part in planning, monitoring and evaluation of mental health services.
How to get involved and have a say?
EUF meets on the first Saturday of the month at McDonald Road Library (corner of Leith Walk) from 2pm to 4pm. All people who use or have used mental health services in Edinburgh are welcome to attend and share their views.
Become a member
As a member, you will be kept up to date on what EUF is involved in and the current campaign it leads and is working on. You can also choose to join the Management Committee, become a volunteer or represent EUF’s view about services or issues you think are important. For more information, please contact Laetitia at AdvoCard. Contact EUF:
Edinburgh Users Forum (EUF)
c/o AdvoCard
332 Leith Walk
Edinburgh EH6 5BR
0131 554 5307
laetitia@advocard.org.uk