The Consultation & Advocacy Promotion Service

Publications

We have recently updated our Service User Guides to the Mental Health Act. Most of the content of these guides is the same and still relevant to anyone who wants to understand the Mental Health (Care & Treatement) (Scotland) Act 2003 and how it relates to them, but some of the contact details of organisations have been updated. You can download the updated versions below:

• CAPS Service Users Guide to the Mental Health Act Updated June 2007.pdf
• CAPS & Advocard Service Users Guide to Named Persons Updated June 2007.pdf
• CAPS & Advocard Service Users Guide to Advance Statements Updated June 2007.pdf

Our last three annual reports are available for download by clicking on the links below:

• Annual Report 2007.pdf
• Annual Report 2006.pdf
• Annual Report 2005.pdf

Did you know that a new guide to Mental Health Advocacy in Edinburgh was published in September 2006? CAPS was one of the network of organisations that helped develop 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

Next EUF meeting

The next meeting is on Saturday 5th July 2008 at 2pm in the McDonald Road Library (corner of Leith Walk and McDonald Road), Edinburgh.
Click here for a map

Next SUM meeting

Thursday 24th July 2008 at 2pm in the MVA offices, White Hart Street in Dalkeith. Click here for a map

Have Your Say Days in Midlothian

Last year CAPS held a Have Your Say Day for people who use, or who have used, mental health services in Midlothian. This event resulted in a follow-up meeting, ‘Bright Ideas Brunch’.

‘What the hell is well?’ was the working title for the Have Your Say Day. It was an open meeting for all mental health service users across Midlothian. The aim was to give service users the opportunity to say how services can keep them well and find ways to measure this. We came up with some measures that could be used to check local mental health services are meeting the needs of their service users. Sometimes these are called ‘outcomes’. To read the full report click below:

• Have Your Say Day 2006 Report

If you do read the report, we would appreciate if you also filled in the following evaluation form. Please send completed evaluations to contact@capsadvocacy.org. Thank you!

• Have Your Say Day 2006 Report evaluation form

Also…

• ‘Making our mark’ – A manifesto for Midlothian mental health service users.

On Tuesday 3 April 2007 CAPS held a Have Your Say Day for people who use, or have used, mental health services in Midlothian. ‘Making our mark’ was the working title of the day. The aim was to produce a mental health service users’ “Manifesto”. We hope that candidates standing for the local and national elections will take notice and sign up to support the delivery of mental health services that we know can make a real difference.
Feel free to download a copy of the manifesto by clicking on the above link.

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