In our shoes

A chance to hear directly from people themselves about their mental health experiences and how they have been treated in the mental health system. Celebrating and championing the voices of lived experience, the conference will explore the power of advocacy and activism to unite people and co-design better services

We welcome everyone, whether you’re a funder, third sector or health and social care professional, or you’ve experienced mental health issues yourself, or you’re just curious to find out more about mental health experiences.

· For policy makers it is a unique opportunity to involve people with lived experience of mental health issues. You’ll have the chance to gather insights from the people who have actually experienced services.

· For third sector or health and social care professionals it’s a day of learning first-hand what can’t be taught in textbooks; workshops will explore what it feels like to experience different conditions.

· And for people with experience of mental health issues it’s a day of solidarity and community building.

People with mental health issues will deliver the day in a series of collective advocacy workshops covering a range of mental health conditions; a particularly impactful way for people with mental health issues to bring about change and challenge stigma. There will also be workshops on arts as advocacy and a community history project called Oor Mad History. There’ll be panel discussions, a presentation on groundbreaking new research into men and eating disorders and a chance to hear about what ‘involvement’ means to people with mental health issues, at the Lothian Voices listening stations.

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Registration at 9am for 9.30am start. Lunch and refreshments will also be included in the day.

ACCESSIBILITY

CAPS values your input and strives to ensure that our engagement is accessible and inclusive. We will do our best to coordinate reasonable adjustments for physical, sensory and processing differences, as well as religious and cultural requirements. If you have any accessibility related requests or concerns, please get in touch beforehand with catherine@capsadvocacy.org

Norton Park Conference Centre is an accessible venue. It has:

• Accessible toilet facilities
• level or ramped access
• Disabled parking
• Induction loop

CAPS Independent Advocacy is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation Scottish Charity number: SC021772.