Sometimes when you have a concern or a complaint it can be difficult to get your views across to another person.  Would you like help to be able to:

• feel able to speak up for yourself,
• know your rights,
• know what options you have to raise your concern or complaints in an organisation or
• feel the other person is listening to you?

Advocacy organisations can help you to express your concerns so that the other person hears what you have to say.

The following organisations provide advocacy if people have a concern or complaint: 

• Voiceability Suffolk

Patients Social Centre, St Clement’s Hospital
Foxhall Road
Ipswich
IP3 8LS

Tel:  (01473) 329671

or

The Coach House
Long Brackland
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP33 1JH

Tel: (01284) 765925

• Suffolk Family Carers Mental Health Project:
  
  Unit 8,
  Hill View Business Park,
  Old Ipswich Road,
  Claydon,
  Ipswich,
  IP6 0AJ
  
  Tel:  (01473) 835400
  
  
• Impact - advocacy service for people with a learning disability:
  
  Mobile No:  07812 384845 or 07812 385143

• ACE - Suffolk People First

An independent citizen and self-advocacy project in Suffolk. "Other people give us the label people with learning disabilities or difficulties but we want to do away with labels. We are people." E-mail: acepeoplefirst@btconnect.com

• Independent Complaints Advocacy Service (ICAS):
  
  POhWER ICAS,
  Unit 26A,
  E Space North,
  181 Wisbech Road,
  Littleport,
  Cambridgeshire,
  CB6 1RA
  
  Tel:  0845 456 1084
  Minicom:  01438 317 070