About Us
Service Overview
The PPAO provides advocacy services to individual patients (instructed and non-instructed), addresses facility-based or provincial systemic issues impacting on patients' rights, rights advice services, public and health care professional education through speaking engagements, publishing reports and media releases.
PPAO Logo
Our logo, with three divisions, places the patient at the centre, with the advocate and the patient's support network on either side. In our practice of advocacy, we at the PPAO proceed from the patient's perspective, the heart of the matter. We believe that creating caring systems requires the effort of all those involved.
The PPAO chose the heart symbol as our logo because it best reflected our vision, values and principles:
- that consumers be actively involved in all decisions affecting their life, care and treatment;
- that all consumers of mental health services be treated with dignity and respect;
- that the consumer directs the advocacy process, using the advocate as a resource;
- that all advocates respect each client's personal choices, providing advocacy from the client's point of view.
