Dudley Voices For Choice
Dudley Voices For Choices has a wide range of services to offer you such as self Advocacy, Employment opportunities, they are also part of safe places scheme as well as have training opportunities and also produce Easy read documents.
Self advocacy
What is Self advocacy ?
Self advocacy is when a person speaks up for themselves and things that are important to them.
What do we do ?
At Dudley Voices for Choice empowers people with learning disabilities and/or autism to speak up.
Support workers work with members to become more confident and Included in decision making.
We are members of the Dudley learning disability
partnership board and the West Midlands forum.
Employment
Here at Dudley Voices for Choice employ people with learning disabilities and autism.
There role is working in our office doing admin,
They also write the 4Seasons newsletter and edit the DVC and Dudley Learning Disability Partnership Board websites.
We have a planning team meeting and write the agenda’s and minutes.
Safe Places Scheme
Safe Places is a scheme for vulnerable people. It gives people a place of safety, if it is needed when out and about in their local community.
If you see this sign in a window it means someone inside can help you, or call someone if you want them to.
For a list of safe places around the borough please use this link https://dudleyci.co.uk/categories/safe-places-scheme
Training
We deliver training on learning disability awareness. The programme is 3 hours long and is delivered by our experts. It includes the history of people with a learning disability and personal experiences from the trainers.
It is an interactive training session that makes you consider the many different aspects of living with a learning disability.
For more information please use the link https://dudleyvoicesforchoice.org.uk/training-2/
Easy Read
Dudley Voices for Choice believe that everyone has the right to information that they can understand.
As an organisation all of our work is produced in easy read and has pictures to support what is written.
We put information into easy read for different businesses.
The work is proof read by people with learning disabilities before it is returned to the business.
There is a charge for this service, for a quote please contact us ask@dudleyvoicesforchoice.org.uk
Contact us
DY1 Building
Stafford Street
Dudley
West Midlands
DY1 1RT
07930 636552 / 01384 217057
