Self-advocacy is the ability to speak up for yourself and represent your views, interests and needs. This includes brain injury supports and services. Self-advocacy is an important part of making sure you have the resources to meet your needs and are not discriminated against because of impairments, disability, or age. Although brain injury associations and other groups work to advocate at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels of health care and government, self-advocacy is something you can do yourself to create positive change in your own life. And not just you—your parents, siblings, friends, teachers and other people in your life can be advocates as well.
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