This Warren MINI-Course contains 10 Rabbit Holes and 65 Chambers! It’s a challenge to summarize what your unique course experience will be. However, the course is designed to provide some basic outcomes which are summarized below.
With this course you will be/be able to:
Affirm your current level of self-advocacy knowledge, experience, and confidence
Know your self-care strategies for your self-advocacy journey
Consider your support systems for your self-advocacy journey
Identify foundational knowledge for self-advocacy
Study some self-advocacy basics
Recognise common 'mental health' service-user issues for advocacy
Understand the standards for community managed/public/private 'mental health' organizations
Be inspired by lived experience self-advocacy
Identify your personal attributes and resources
Decide upon your reasons to advocate
Assess your readiness to commence a self-advocacy journey
Collect numerous materials and resources to keep and refer to that will support your self-advocacy
Acquire some relevant systemic and procedural knowledge
Familiarize yourself with governing and guiding 'mental health' sector documentation
Identify the Western Australian administrative structures pertaining to health advocacy
Explore written and verbal communication basics
Consider some elements self-advocacy strategy
Practice skills in self-reflection
Test your knowledge on self-advocacy
You will develop a knowledge-base and skill set to support your 'mental health' service-user self-advocacy efforts, self-advocacy experience, and decision-making
You will understand some important aspects of the 'mental health' service-user self-advocacy journey
You will be better able to navigate a 'mental health' service-user self-advocacy process
You will be able to curate your own library/folder of interesting and helpful materials and resources on the topic of 'Mental Health' Service-User Self-Advocacy