For advocacy, see also: Our Activities, Policies, and Positions.

Advocacy Policy

Advocacy is pleading, speaking, or arguing in favour of a cause or on another's behalf.

The Patients Council defines advocacy as preventing vulnerability for institutionalized people upholding the rights of consumers and survivors as in- and/or out-patients, or as members of society.

The Patients Council will advocate primarily on systemic issues, those problems which face the consumer and survivor community as a whole.

Patients Council advocacy aims to:

1. protect patients from death, abuse and any violation of rights
2. promote consumer and survivor choices and opportunities
3. achieve further independence for consumer and survivors
4. promote alternatives to forced psychiatric treatment
5. educate consumers and survivors to become their own advocates
6. promote solidarity between patients

1. serious risk to life
2. physical and emotional danger
3. violations of legal rights as granted in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Mental Health Act and other applicable laws
4. practices which unfairly restrict patients choices and independence

Advocacy will be done in a responsible and legal manner. Advocates will be accountable to the patients they serve, to the Advocacy Committee and the Patients Council.

For advocacy, see also: Our Activities, Policies, and Positions.

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