Lomond & Argyll Advocacy Service were recently awarded grant funding from the Health and Wellbeing Network Mid Argyll to develop and run a series of Self Advocacy Skills training courses. We are pleased to be able to offer spaces on the next training course on the 20th of November 2018 from 10am-3pm in the Lochgilphead …
Lomond & Argyll Advocacy Service were recently awarded grant funding from the Health and Wellbeing Network Mid Argyll to develop and run a series of Self Advocacy Skills training courses. Our aim for the course was to help people build confidence by learning effective ways to address problems and ask questions in order to successfully …
Volunteers are such an important part of the team at Lomond & Argyll Advocacy Service. Volunteers help us extend the services we provide and to deal more promptly with referrals. They help us raise awareness of advocacy in the community and help us keep firmly rooted in the communities we serve. Recently we have had to …
Self Management Week takes place every year to raise awareness of and showcase the huge benefits self management can bring to people’s lives This year the theme for Self Management Week 2018 is ‘Gaun Yersel’ Self management is about people living with long term conditions being in ‘the driving seat’. It supports people to live …
Lomond and Argyll Advocacy Service joins Charter for Involvement National Involvement Network (NIN) The Charter for Involvement was published in January 2015 and contains a series of twelve statements that show how people who use support services want to be involved: In the services they get In the organisations that provide their services, and In the …
We are looking for Volunteer Advocates in Mid Argyll, Oban & Lorn and Kintyre. If you would be interested in rewarding volunteer work where you can give something back to the community, please contact us either by email or telephone: admin.argyll@laas.org.uk 01546 606056
We welcomed two new members of staff to our Mid Argyll Office in late January – Anne McChesney and James Johnson-Dale. They will be working alongside Ailsa McCrae, Team Leader for Argyll, delivering our advocacy service to adults over the age of 16 that use mental health services, or who have a learning disability or …
LAAS welcomes our newest member of staff in Cowal and Bute, Anne McSeveney. She joins the Advocacy team, based at the Riverside Surgery in Kilmun, Dunoon. She will be working alongside our Advocate Co-ordinator Julie McNaughton as the Long Term Conditions Advocacy worker. Lomond & Argyll Advocacy Service has been working hard to strengthen the …
Succoth Ward (Inpatient Mental Health Services) at Mid Argyll Community Hospital and Integrated Care Centre was officially opened by Christina West, Chief Officer for Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership. Succoth ward has moved to the MACHICC into a specially adapted area to meet the needs of both the patients and the staff …
We undertake a regular client satisfaction survey across the service. Since 2010 we have conducted fifteen surveys. To find out more please find our latest satisfaction survey report here. Feedback is important to us as it allows us to determine the areas where we are getting right and to highlight any issues where we need to …