MDAC has produced a handbook to assist mental disability advocacy services throughout Europe. MDAC hopes that the guidance within the handbook, combined with additional training on key topics and the adoption of policies similar to those within it, will contribute to their increased efffectiveness. The handbook sets out best practice guidelines for advocacy services and is based on the experience of long-standing advocacy services for people with mental health and intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom, a country in which mental health advocacy has played an important role in protecting human rights for many years.
MDAC is supporting lay advocates in Hungary and Kyrgyzstan.
