Advocacy West Wales

17/10/2025

Happy Friday! and also It is the final day of Advocacy Awareness Week

Today's Theme is Support!

This is a running theme though all our services across the three counties here at AWW.

16/10/2025

Advocacy Awareness Week

📍Today's theme: Stand Alongside 👤

📍Connection to AWW's services, Carers

👱‍♀️Glynnis had been looking after her husband Tom for 5 years without any support. He had Parkinsons and a dementia illness. Family lived far away and weren’t available to step in. She was burning out and increasingly facing her own health issues. She felt awful guilt about considering that Tom might have to move into a care home. Advocacy supported her to ask for a social care assessment for Tom and to have a needs assessment for her as a carer. She was able to get a support worker through direct payments to look after Tom so that she could have a break, get her hair done, do the shopping. She was able to ask for 2 weeks respite care so that she could get away to see family for a break from her caring role.

15/10/2025

Advocacy Awareness Week!

Today's Theme and link to AWW services

📍Speaking up 🗣

📍Link to AWW services Learning Disabilities and Autism

👩‍🦱 Dorothy had been mental health conditions for her entire adult life. She struggled to get the right support and to be understood. She worked with her advocate to get an assessment for psychological support and in doing so was referred for an autism assessment. She was supported through the autism assessment and its diagnosis. Finally, after an adulthood feeling judged and misunderstood she is able to understand herself better and ask for support that is more suited to her individual needs. She developed her self-advocacy skills and now speaks up for herself in meetings.

14/10/2025

Advocacy Awareness Week!
Today's Theme and link to AWW services

📍Theme: Rights 📝

👤Mental Health

👩Carly, who had been living with depression at home for over a year, was admitted to a mental health unit for the first time. She was brought in by police and assessed on the unit. She was placed on a section of the Mental Health Act and told she would have to be on the unit for some time and could be treated without her consent. Advocacy helped her to understand her rights about detention and treatment, helped her to speak with the doctors in the reviews about how she felt about being in hospital and taking medication. Ultimately, it led to her asking to be taken off the section and to stay informally in hospital while she adjusted to a new medication. She felt more in control of her care and recovery as a result.

13/10/2025

📍AWW will be celebrating each of the themes of the week and addressing how via a small case study how we support that theme.

📍Theme: Inclusion

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

👩‍🦳Eira has a dementia and is a first language Welsh speaker. Her English language is being lost. She could better make herself understood in Welsh. She was in hospital as a result of a fall. She was supported by a Welsh speaking advocate to talk about her wishes when the time came for discharge from hospital. Eira wasn’t able to go home and went into a care setting. Advocacy helped to ensure those making decisions looked for a home with a high number of other Welsh speakers and carers so she could feel comfortable communicating, socialise more, and have every chance to make her needs known.

13/10/2025

Today! Monday 13th October is the beginning of Advocacy Awareness Week! 🥳

Each day of Advocacy Awareness Week , Advocacy West Wales will be celebrating each of the themes of the week and addressing how via a small case study how we support that theme.

Advocacy Awareness Week is 13-17 October 2025

03/09/2025

📢📋📅AWW-EGC AGM is quickly approaching. Join us for our AGM on Wednesday 24th September 2025 2pm
📨Email admin@advocacywestwales.org.uk to register and obtain a link for the meeting