Hi SANE Community,
This coming Topic Tuesday is all about Tools for Advocacy 🎉
At some point in our recovery journey, there are times when we self advocate for our needs, our wishes and our recovery goals. There might be people advocating beside us and empowering our voices (individual advocacy). And other times, we might be the voice representing the thousands of others going through recovery too (systemic advocacy).
Lived Experience advocacy is about empowerment and decisions/choices made with lived experience at the heart. In this discussion will talk about the skills for self advocacy, how we can empower others to self advocate, and how we can influence through advocacy for broader change in mental health services and systems.
There will be a twist for this Topic Tuesday, instead of facilitating the discussion, I will be joining as a guest 🙂 Before coming to SANE, I started my career as a lived experience speaker, advocate and representative. There are thousands of us using advocacy skills every day! We welcome all our forum members to bring your stories, tips and tools for advocacy to this discussion.
Please join us here on Tuesday 21st September 2021 from 7:00pm-8:30pm AEST to talk about skills for all types of advocacy, and how we can use our voice to empower and drive our recovery.
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Hi there forums community,
Sending my apologies that we will not be going ahead with Tonight's Topic Tuesday and it will be postponed. I was guest for tonight and have been under the weather 
But don't worry, we will be setting a new date again soon so keep an eye out for more information! I am so passionate about this topic and can't wait to hear from all of you about your experiences of self, individual and systemic advocacy 🙂
Thank you for understanding and look forward to talking to you about advocacy soon
Tagging all those who have supported the Topic Tuesday post
@-Just-me @Arizona @Owen45 @Kasey @Strivetothrive @Vonney @JungleGiants @Anastasia @Snowie @chibam @RedHorse @Historylover @Former-Member @cloudcore @tomatosauce @Fluttershy1 @Shaz51
Sorry all! Please keep an eye out for the new date 🙂
Good evening everyone, Topic Tuesday will begin in 20 minutes and so I'm just tagging all of those who have supported the post 
@Praski @Lyra_reachout @Longingtobelong @Odet @Unic0rn @YinandYang76 @Owen45 @Kasey @Strivetothrive @Vonney @Historylover @Zoe7 @Lurla @Millieme @BPDSurvivor @-Just-me @tomatosauce @Shaz51 @Fluttershy1 @RedHorse @JungleGiants @Anastasia @Snowie @chibam
Welcome @Former-Member , welcome! I completely agree that there is a lot of stigma around mental health. Tonight we will be discussing advocacy and we hope that you'll find this space valuable. Often we have to work really hard to communicate in the health space and that could be a form of self advocacy 
Help us push aside the stigma and discrimination surrounding complex mental health and change the way people talk about, and care for, mental illness.
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Help us push aside the stigma and discrimination surrounding complex mental health and change the way people talk about, and care for, mental illness.
SANE acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
SANE values diversity. We are committed to providing a safe, culturally appropriate, and inclusive service for all people, regardless of their ethnicity, faith, disability, sexuality, or gender identity.