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Benefits of having a Citizen Advocate

Enjoying opportunities to give and to receive:

  • Knowing that someone cares.
  • Sharing suffering as well as joy.
  • Gaining an enhanced self-image, as well as being seen more positively by other people.
  • Developing caring relationships based on genuine interest and concern.
  • Learning and growing through personal relationship commitments.
 
  • Increasing personal independence and having certain rights and privileges upheld.
  • Having needs and interests addressed in a wide variety of ways.
  • Becoming more a part of community life, rather than being set apart.