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POhWER Advocacy
POhWER has worked in Sandwell since 2006. Last year we provided advocacy support to 277 Sandwell residents.
Our services include:
NHS Complaints Advocacy for people who wish to make a complaint about treatment provided under the NHS
Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA), including Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and Relevant Person's Paid Representative (RPPR) service is a statutory advocacy service to support vulnerable people who lack capacity and need to make important decisions but have no representatives as defined under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA). Anyone who is detained in a secure Mental Health setting in Sandwell is entitled to access support from an IMHA. This contract also provides an issue based advocacy service for informal inpatients of Sandwell (Hallam St) Hospital via drop ins.
Community Advocacy for any person in Sandwell receiving a care/welfare services who has age-related needs, disabilities or prescribed physical or mental health conditions.
Care Act Advocacy whereby Local Authority social care teams (and designated organisations) can make a referral to our service for you using the referral form.
Volunteering in Sandwell. If you would like to apply all you need to do is fill in the online at pohwer.net and a member of our volunteer team will contact you to talk to you in more detail about local volunteer opportunities in your area.
Address details
- Postal Town
- Aston, Birmingham
- Postcode
- B6 9BL
Organisation Contact Details
- Phone
- 0300 456 2370
- Fax
- 0300 456 2365
- pohwer@pohwer.net
- Website
- http://www.pohwer.net
- Charity Commission registration number
- 1061543
Contact Person Details
- Contact Name
- Usher Patel
- Role
- Manager
- u.patel@pohwer.net
- Contact Name
- Rose Humphries
- Role
- Community Manager
- Telephone
- 0300 4560 2370
- r.humphries@pohwer.net
- Contact Name
- Ushaben Patel
- Role
- Volunteer Coordinator
- Telephone
- 0300 456 2370
- u.patel@pohwer.net
Services
- Advocacy
Main Beneficiaries
Services focused on particular beneficiaries do not imply that they are offered exclusively to these persons only.
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Specific Need or Circumstance
- People who have sensory disabilities (sight, hearing, etc)
- People who have physical disabilities (excluding sensory disabilities)
- People who have mental health problems
- People who have learning disabilities
- People who have terminal illnesses
- People who have specific medical conditions/diseases
- People who are unemployed
- People who are in financial need
- People who are bereaved
- People who are asylum seekers/refugees
- People who have substance abuse/addiction problems (alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, etc)
- People who are offenders/ex-offenders
- People who are victims/survivors of physical/sexual/emotional violence
- People who are victims/survivors of crime
- People who are carers
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Specific Faith Focus
- People from all faiths / multi-faith / inter-faith people
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Sexual Orientation Focus
- People of all sexual orientations
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Household
- All households
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Gender Focus
- All genders
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Ethnic Focus
- People from all ethnic groups
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Age Focus
- People of all ages
Organisation last updated: Tue, 24th July 2018
Please notify us if you think this information is out of date