You have control over making decisions and buying the things you want. This involves learning how to make decisions that are responsible for you and help you get the things that are important. It also involves being an important person in your community. You may also want to help develop policies that affect not only you, but other people in your community. The types of supports will be different for different families and for different people within a family.
Family support is about providing the support needed to keep family members connected to each other.
Top of next column Advocacy means taking action with or for someone else in order to help the person talk about and obtain needed supports and services. There are many types of advocacy - self advocacy, natural supports, peer advocacy, citizen advocacy, case advocacy, systems advocacy, and legal advocacy. Others may need and want the help of a friend, family member, another person with a disability, a volunteer, an Independent Support Coordinator, a group of people, a case ad-vocate or a legal representative or lawyer. These different types of advocacy are promoted through the Community Plan through providers, information and training. The person's circle may also request a case advocate through a request to the Regional Office.