What is an Empowerment Forum about?
 
Through the Leadership and Empowerment Programme RADAR organises 6 regional Empowerment Events for people with lived experience of disability or health conditions, providing the tools and skills to influence and commission local services. There are speeches and workshops where representatives of organisations that have an effect on your life, talk about routes to involvement in local services. Many speakers also share insights from their own empowerment journeys, thus conveying their messages in a much more influential manner.

Where does it take place?

• London, Home Counties and East Anglia
• South West
• Midlands
• North West and Lancashire
• Yorkshire and Humberside
• North East

To support the programme RADAR has produced the Empowerment Guide, a publication on influencing local services. The purpose of this guide is to support, inform and enable disabled people, so that they feel empowered to influence local decision making processes by actively participating in the services they receive. Covered topics are: commissioning, health, housing and neighbourhoods, planning and social care. The guide also includes a general influencing toolkit providing information on the levers for change, on how to get actively involved, how to make approaches, how to present at meetings, how to respond to consultations, what rights exist with reference to all of this etc.

If you are interested in attending a RADAR Empowerment Forum or would like to receive a copy of the Empowerment Guide, please contact RADAR on 0207 566 0114/0207 566 0111