{"id":1520,"date":"2014-07-03T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/self-help-4-stroke-plugin-upgrade.local\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2015-05-29T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:39:37","slug":"advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Difficult topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy is where you choose another person to support you in or act on your behalf to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Enable something to happen e.g. review your benefits entitlement:<\/li>\n<li>Clarify a situation e.g. deal with a formal agency ie Housing Department or employer.<\/li>\n<li>Represent your views e.g make sure your opinions are heard.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>An advocate can be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A family member<\/li>\n<li>A trusted friend<\/li>\n<li>A professional advocacy service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Professional advocacy services can be found at; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siaa.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens new window\">Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearme\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/istock_3777931.jpg\" alt=\"istock_3777931\" width=\"179\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/istock_3777931.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/istock_3777931-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"speechquote\"><p>\nI was finding it very difficult to keep on top of all the mail and my bills and things. I found it difficult to phone all the places to sort things out. My good friend came with me to the Citizens Advice team and helped me tell them what I needed help with to sort it all out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"clearme\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/istock_616235.jpg\" alt=\"istock_616235\" width=\"179\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/istock_616235.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/istock_616235-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"speechquote\"><p>\nHaving had the stroke made me realise I needed to get all my affairs in order. I didn\u2019t want to upset the family more so I got in touch with a professional advocacy service who helped me to make my will with the lawyer and it really helped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy is where you choose another person to support you in or act on your behalf to: Enable something to happen e.g. review your benefits entitlement: Clarify a situation e.g. deal with a formal agency ie Housing Department or employer. Represent your views e.g make sure your opinions are heard. An advocate can be: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6215,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}