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Welcome to Bexley and Bromley Advocacy
We are an independent advocacy project for people with a learning disability and Autism.
We work in partnership with people with a learning disability.
- Make their own decisions
- Communicate their decisions and opinions
- Take part in community life.
We have a self advocacy project run by people with a learning difficulty.
We think it is very important that people are involved in our project.
People have told us this shows what they can do
and not what they can't do.
We believe in ability and not disability.
Peter says 'I found Laura very helpful and understanding. She tells me what is going to happen in the near future. If I have any problems I can talk it through and she helps to sort it out'.Laura says 'I have learnt about the problems that people with learning disabilities sometimes face and have been able to solve them'.
Our Story
Our patron isCouncillor Charles Joel
- We started in 1995
- We became a registered charity in 1997
- We started as a citizen advocacy project for people with a learning disability
- In 2005 we started the first advocacy project for people with Autism and Asperger's syndrome in England
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We are much bigger now and have lots of workers
- Our co ordinators support a large team of volunteer advocates
- Now we support:
- Short term advocacy
- Citizen advocacy
- Crisis advocacy
- Self advocacy (speaking up)
- Peer advocacy