The ACT Mental Health Consumer Network (the Network) is proud to facilitate the Advocacy and Representation Training (ART) course.  ART is about the individual exercising their personal skills so that the consumer voice is heard, listened to, and acted upon.

This course supports you, the consumer, to identify how effective you can be as a self-advocate and be a voice for other consumers.

Presented in two parts, ART has been designed with consumers, for consumers.  The first part of the course is Self-Advocacy training and the second is Consumer Advocacy.

The timetable for ART courses for 2012 is available here

Our Advocacy and Representation Training (ART) gives participants the opportunity to discover, reflect and respond to issues of stigma and consumer participation in the ACT.

Advocacy begins with the individual, and through skills-based training consumers are prepared with the tools to communicate effectively in a range of situations.

Informed individuals then have the capacity to represent the consumer voice to the wider community where systemic change can happen.

Mental health workers are encouraged to attend.

Download ART course brochure