SUPPORT and ADVOCACY
It’s the chance for a friendly chat. Perhaps to sort through a worry, get some information, check that you are getting all the assistance you're entitled to, or help work through a decision.
Sometimes it’s just finding out how to contact or get help from another agency.
And sometimes it's an emergency and you really don't know what to do.
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 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 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.
Distinctive features underpinning our programme delivery
- We work with a strength based toolkit, an approach predicated on the understanding that everyone has potential and capacity to grow, change and adapt.
- Client Directed Outcome Informed (CDOI), an evidence-based engagement, monitoring and evaluation system based on clients finding their own solutions within working relationships. CDOI is proven to dramatically improve outcomes within a shorter timeframe.
