Social Justice Champions: Supporting people, helping them to be heard and protecting their rights

Does your organisation provide one-to-one support to people who are minoritised, marginalised or experience discrimination and disadvantage?

Does your organisation make a difference to people's lives by challenging unfairness and inequalities to achieve social justice?

This course is for people who provide support to individuals either in an advocacy setting or more broadly and want to develop/improve their practice and skills. The course shows how Independent Advocacy principles, frameworks and core skills that use a person-centred approach can be applied in your organisation to achieve improved social justice outcomes for the people you support.

The principles of social justice

“Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.” Oxford Languages

“The idea that all people should have the same rights and opportunities and that a country’s wealth and resources should benefit everyone in that country.” Cambridge Dictionary

“Social justice makes societies and economies function better and reduces poverty, inequalities and social tensions.” United Nations 

Learning outcomes

Through the six modules, participants will gain increased ability to:

  • Identify and develop active listening skills
  • Understand the law and how it relates to people you support
  • Apply a people-focussed approach to support
  • Meet the needs of people from diverse communities
  • Identify effective communication strategies
  • Confidently negotiate for other people
  • How to prepare for and offer support at meetings
  • Implement an action plan around people's needs and goals

Core modules

  • Advocacy and the Legal Framework
  • Person Centred Approaches       
  • Effective Communication and Inclusion
  • Putting Skills into Practice

Who for:

This course is suitable for advice workers, support workers, service navigators, legal advisers, housing officers, social workers, community workers or anyone working in a supportive role with individuals.

Delivery

Our Social Justice Champion training is two days long and can be delivered either over two or four sessions. Some of our modules are available as stand-alone training sessions:

Putting People First – Person-Centred Approaches to Supporting Individuals

Effective Communication and Active Listening

This is an in-person session and can be delivered either in-house or within our fully accessible premises at One Strawberry Lane.

The course includes a training pack and personalised action plan. Participants will receive a certificate of completion on attendance of all sessions.

Quality assurance:

We are a multi-award-winning advocacy service with specialist skills and expertise and nearly 30 years’ experience in providing high-quality support to people to have their voices heard and rights upheld. We have provided this training to nearly 300 paid and volunteer advocates to improve their skills.

Book now

Contact Claire Taylor to discuss your bespoke training needs and to book this course for your organisation.

We occasionally run multi-agency courses for individuals to book onto. Contact Claire to find out more and get notified of any upcoming dates.

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Connected Voice also offers bite-sized ‘lunch and learn’ sessions on a variety of topics, including:

  • Effective communication and active listening
  • Being assertive and effective negotiation
  • Managing emotions and responding to behaviours people find challenging
  • Understanding mental health and keeping well

“Very well run - an excellent, friendly course”

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