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.