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Getting Your Voice Heard

Synopsis
Explains the concept of advoccy, taking the day-to-day operation of a generic advocacy service in Merseyside as an example, and features individuals expressing their empowering experiences of the service that helped them to put their views across and get their voices heard. A question-and-answer session raises issues about the delivery of a service that avoids labellng, does not keep files, offers an open referral system and allows individuals to decide for themselves whether or not to get an advocate.
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 13 min.
Year of production
1998
Availability
Hire
Sale; 1998 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1998 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects
Law; Social welfare
Keywords
advocacy

Distributor

Name

Concord Media

Email
sales@concordmedia.org.uk
Web
http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
Phone
01473 726 012
Address
Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG
Notes
A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.

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