AdvoCard, Individual Hospital Advocacy

General information

AdvoCard is an independent advocacy service for mental health service users living in the community in Edinburgh. We are funded to be independent of other mental health services provided by the statutory and voluntary sectors. This enables us to stand alongside the person we are working with and to support them without any conflict of interest arising.

We provide our advocacy service through trained volunteer and contracted advocacy workers. The advocacy workers follow the instructions of the person they are working with to help them achieve their desired outcome.

We value not only our independence but also the fact that we continually strive to be service user led as an organisation. We have service users as members of our ruling body and encourage service users to train as volunteers.