Community Support Network South London (CSN) – Community Advocacy Service
Overview
Community Support Network South London (CSN) was formed in 1993, by a group of mental health service users in Lambeth, South London. In 1996, it obtained funding for an advocate, who worked 28 hours a week at the local psychiatric hospitals. Now it provides in-patient, community and forensic advocacy services. Advocacy exists to empower and enable service users to have more say in their treatment and care and to exercise their rights.
Community Advocacy:
This is provided to people who have recently been discharged from section of the Mental Health Act 1983, as amended 2007. Our priorities are people who are detained in the community on Community Treatment Orders, also known as Supervised Community Treatment. All our advocacy services prioritise women, people who are new to advocacy or new to mental health services, those for whom English is not their first language and others with communication difficulties. We work primarily around your care and treatment and rights under the Mental Health Act so if your issues are not these, it is likely we will refer on to other services, for example, specialist legal, benefits and housing advice services. Our community advocacy services are only available to Lambeth residents.
Contact: E-mail: [email protected] or call on +44(0) 20 3143 9000.
Overview
Community Support Network South London (CSN) was formed in 1993, by a group of mental health service users in Lambeth, South London. In 1996, it obtained funding for an advocate, who worked 28 hours a week at the local psychiatric hospitals. Now it provides in-patient, community and forensic advocacy services. Advocacy exists to empower and enable service users to have more say in their treatment and care and to exercise their rights.
Community Advocacy:
This is provided to people who have recently been discharged from section of the Mental Health Act 1983, as amended 2007. Our priorities are people who are detained in the community on Community Treatment Orders, also known as Supervised Community Treatment. All our advocacy services prioritise women, people who are new to advocacy or new to mental health services, those for whom English is not their first language and others with communication difficulties. We work primarily around your care and treatment and rights under the Mental Health Act so if your issues are not these, it is likely we will refer on to other services, for example, specialist legal, benefits and housing advice services. Our community advocacy services are only available to Lambeth residents.
Contact: E-mail: [email protected] or call on +44(0) 20 3143 9000.
Contact Details
Phone:
020 7274 4490
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
https://www.csnsl.org.uk/
Address:
CSN, 336 Brixton Road, Brixton, London SW9 7AA
Other Info
Opening times:
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Answerphone outside office hours
Costs:
Free
Disabled Access:
Full wheelchair access to office, adapted toilets.
Directions:
Tube: Brixton.
Buses: 2, 3, 35, 37, 45, 109, 118, 133, 159 ,196 ,250, 322, 333, P4, P5.
Other information:
Access to interpreters on request. Target groups: People aged between 18 and 65 years accessing Independent Mental Health Advocacy under the Mental Health Act, and/or people accessing or wanting to access community mental health services.
Referral/how to contact: Self referral. Referral via mental health professionals, carers etc accepted provided you agree. Led by people with experience of distress and of using mental health services.
Last updated:
27th July 2023
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