COMMUNITY & SOCIAL SERVICES
What is Advocacy & Support?
It’s the chance for a friendly chat. Perhaps you’d like to sort through a particular worry, get some information, check that you are getting all the assistance you are entitled to, or help work through a decision you have to make. Sometimes it’s just finding out how to contact or get help from another agency. Our Community Support and Advocacy Worker has a great deal of experience in finding a way through worries, agencies and problems, so that the people we work with have the results they want.
Advocacy & Support is FREE; paid for by The Methodist Mission from our own funds.
It's About What You Want
Our Community Social Worker is not under contract to the Government or the Health Board or anyone else (other than The Methodist Mission), and has no powers to do anything to you. Her job is simply to help you with the things you would like to get sorted.
It's Not a Bother
It's often the small things that make all the difference. If there is something bothering you, which you’d like help with: we can help. It doesn’t matter if it’s a big thing or a small thing – we’d like to help.
Your Privacy
The information you give us will be kept private, except where we have your permission to share it with others. The Privacy Act also requires us to share information where there is a serious and imminent risk to your or someone else’s health, or we are asked by the police to provide information regarding a criminal investigation.
