The Consultation & Advocacy Promotion Service
CAPS is an independent advocacy organisation for people who use, or have used mental health services.
CAPS works with mental health service users as individuals or as members of a group to set their own agenda, to find a stronger voice, to get their point across, and influence decisions which affect their lives.
You can now follow CAPS on Facebook & Twitter!
Follow us on twitter @capsadvocacy or become a friend on Facebook – search for “CAPS advocacy”
Improving Detention?
Edinburgh Users Forum, which CAPS works closely with, is very pleased to announce the launch of their Improving Detention? report. The report is a survey of over 30 service users about their experiences of being detained and using safeguards in the Mental Health Act.
Edinburgh Users Forum intends to use the findings of this report to do further campaigning. If you have any questions or comments about the report, or you’d like to get involved with the campaign please get in touch with Edinburgh Users Forum by clicking here e-mail EUF
You can download Improving Detention? below.
Personality Disorder Project & Much More Than A Label Resource
The Personality Disorder Project is now in its second phase and we have been talking to staff in the statutory and voluntary sector about their experience of working with people who attract a diagnosis of personality disorder and what they need in terms of support and training. We are going to use these views to ‘tweak’ the Much More Than A Label Resource, written by service users, to make it as useful and useable as possible, as well as planning training and education. So things are very busy behind the scenes! The resource is not currently available to download, so please e-mail Naomi for more information.
Publications
The Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 gives people who experience mental health difficulties the right to access independent advocacy services. This applies to both individual and collective advocacy.
Our Service User Guides to the Mental Health Act are relevant to anyone who wants to understand the Act and how it relates to them. You can download them here:
CAPS Service Users Guide to the Mental Health Act Updated April 2010.pdf- CAPS & Advocard Service Users Guide to Named Persons Updated April 2010.pdf
- CAPS & Advocard Service Users Guide to Advance Statements Updated April 2010.pdf
- CAPS & Advocard Advance Statement Forms.pdf
Our last three annual reports are available for download by clicking on the links below:
- Annual Report 2009.pdf
- Annual Report 2008.pdf
- Annual Report 2007.pdf
A Guide to Mental Health Advocacy in Edinburgh – CAPS was one of the network of organisations that developed this guide for people in Edinburgh who experience mental health difficulties and their carers. You can download a copy below:
- Edinburgh Mental Health Advocacy Guide.pdf
Having trouble opening PDF files?
To look at these files, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer. This is available FREE of charge. You can download it directly from Adobe’s website by clicking the link below. Once on Adobe’s website, follow the instructions on screen to install the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Note: You only need to do this ONCE and the software is FREE.
Once installed, you should be able to download any of the PDF documents available on our website.
Last updated: 19 Jul 2010