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Real-life stories for all services
Betsy's story tells how accessing high quality information, advice and advocacy through POhWER made a difference to her life and helped get involved in her care planning and personal budget
Alex's story: Helping her and her child to stay physically healthy and active. Advocacy support with the Children, Schools and Families and the community mental health team
Alf and Rick:helping carers to carry on caring with the support of a POhWER advocate
Andrew's story tells how, working with his advocate, Andrew was able to stay with with his GP.
Darren's story - how Darren improved his quality of life and relationships with the support of his advocate.
Examples of how empowerment work undertaken by POhWER has supported service users
The stories on this page are real life stories of people POhWER has worked with as part of our Independent Complaints Advocacy Service (ICAS).
Lucy's story tells about how working with an advocate helped to bring about a significant improvement in the quality of Lucy and her daughter's life
Neil's story tells about how his work with POhWER's empowerment groups have helped him to learn new skills and get more confidence.
Nick's story explains more about the work involved in non-instructed advocacy
Examples of how the Non-Instructed Advocacy (NIA)service has worked with clients over three different issues.
A real-life story about how advocacy intervention helped Angela to get the support she needed and the Mental Health Trust to avoid a costly and time consuming complaint.
Helping Adam explain his concerns about mobility and improve his physical health.
José's story explains how advocacy helped him to find his way through complex benefit processes.
Advocacy, helping Sarah have a fulfilling and healthy life.
Steve's story tells about how working with his advocate Steve was able to manage a housing problem and get access to badly needed counselling.
Sunil's story explains how, with the support of his advocate, Sunil was able to access and achieve economic well being - work, learning and benefits
The aim of our Valuing People group is to support people with learning disabilities in their engagement with all services including adult social services and those provided by the NHS, ensuring there is equal access for all.
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