Free Self Advocacy Training Term 3 Registrations Now Open

Registration for the Advocacy and Representation Training Term 3, 2013 are now open!

The ART program is delivered over a few terms throughout the year. ART is free to attend, and all participants graduate with a certificate of participation.

Each term consists of ten sessions, which includes the Self-Advocacy course (five sessions) and the Consumer Representation course (five sessions).

All are welcome to enrol in the Self-Advocacy course, however only those who have completed Self-Advocacy are eligible to enrol in Consumer Representation. Graduates of the course who have a lived experience of mental illness are eligible to apply for a volunteer role as a Consumer Representative on a committee and/or to co-facilitate components of the ART course itself.

Please note that in this term only the Self Advocacy course is being offered. This term will be offered in two day intensive delivery mode. The Five sessions of the Self Advocacy Course are:
1. Introduction
2. The Practice of Self Esteem & Self Confidence 3. The Practice of Self Expression 4. The Practice of Self Reliance and Self Determination 5. Self Development

Training will take place:
Dates: Thursday 28 November and Thursday 5 December 2013
Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: ACT Mental Health Consumer Network Level 2, Room 11, 20 Genge Street, Canberra City.

To register for Term 3, 2013 of the Network's Advocacy and Representation Training, please complete the attached registration form and return it by hand to Level 2, Room 11 Griffin Centre, by post to ACTMHCN, Reply Paid 469, Civic Square ACT 2608, by fax to 62305790 or by scanning and emailing to representation@actmhcn.org.au

For further information please phone the Consumer Representative Program Coordinator, Purity Goj, on 6230 5796, or alternatively email her at representation@actmhcn.org.au