What is Advocacy? assisting in clarifying goals, developing strategies and Advocacy is speaking, acting, and/or writing to advocating the views and interests of a person or group. promote and defend the rights, needs, and interests of people. The primary aim is to Support promote advocacy by assisting people to speak for themselves, but if they are unable to do so, an Strategies involved with standing behind people advocate speaks on their behalf. Advocates can involve: present things from the person’s perspective. providing the individual with effective training Advocacy is about giving a voice to in self advocacy and advocacy skills people who are marginalised and supporting the individual to up powerless. providing advise to people with disability and Kevin Stone (2002) suggests that being an advocate their families on issues and strategies can involve three separate functions, namely: providing information which might standing beside people with disability by enhance the advocacy of people with assisting them to advocate own interests disability and their supporters. standing behind people with disability by Representation supporting them to represent their own interests Strategies involved with standing before people standing before people with disability can involve: by representing their interests. speaking or acting on behalf of people who are unable to assert or express their own Assistance views and interests Strategies involved with standing beside people speaking or acting as the nominated representative can involve: of an organisation or group accompanying a person or group to meetings speaking or acting as the appointed representative of an individual or group. prompting and reinforcing the expressed views and interests of a person or group
What is Advocacy? Advocacy is speaking, acting, and/or writing to promote and defend the rights, needs, and interests of people. The primary aim is to promote advocacy by assisting people to speak for themselves, but if they are unable to do so, an advocate speaks on their behalf. Advocates present things from the person’s perspective. Advocacy is about giving a voice to people who are marginalised and powerless. Kevin Stone (2002) suggests that being an advocate can involve three separate functions, namely: standing beside people with disability by assisting them to advocate own interests standing behind people with disability by supporting them to represent their own interests standing before people with disability by representing their interests. Assistance Strategies involved with standing beside people can involve: accompanying a person or group to meetings prompting and reinforcing the expressed views and interests of a person or group assisting in clarifying goals, developing strategies and advocating the views and interests of a person or group. Support Strategies involved with standing behind people can involve: providing the individual with effective training in self advocacy and advocacy skills supporting the individual to up providing advise to people with disability and their families on issues and strategies providing information which might enhance the advocacy of people with disability and their supporters. Representation Strategies involved with standing before people can involve: speaking or acting on behalf of people who are unable to assert or express their own views and interests speaking or acting as the nominated representative of an organisation or group speaking or acting as the appointed representative of an individual or group.
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