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What is Advocacy? · 2015. 6. 3. · Legal Advocacy: advocating with the use of attorneys to...
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} What is Advocacy? } Barriers to Self Advocacy
} Building a strategy } The Importance of Documentation
} Communication Skills } Self Awareness
} Emotional Self-Care
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Actively supporting a cause and trying to get others to support it to. Speaking up, drawing attention to an important issue and directing decision makers toward a solution.
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} Self Advocacy: advocating to represent or advance your own interests
} Peer Advocacy: advocating to represent or advance the interests of someone else
} Systemic Advocacy: advocating to influence social and political systems to bring about change for larger groups
} Legal Advocacy: advocating with the use of attorneys to protect your legal rights
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Ø All people have strengths and weaknesses.
Ø It is important to know what yours are to help to identify where additional support is required when advocating
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In order to make your advocacy efforts effective you should:
1. Break down the problem
2. Educate yourself 3. Identify your rights
4. Develop a solution (goal) and strategy to address your problem.
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Breaking things down into smaller more manageable pieces is important. Pick out the problems that are the most important to you and address those first.
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• Identify the facts • Collect information • Are there additional facts/
information you would need for your goal ex. Laws, policies, rules
• Who are the decision makers?
• Are there other people who can assist or help me?
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The term ‘rights’ can sometimes be confusing. There are different types of rights that you have in Ontario • Laws • Contracts • Rules and Policies • Preferences and Social Expectations
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• Identify the facts • Collect information/build your case • Develop possible solutions • Identify potential barriers to those solutions
• What are the expectations from the other party
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Documentation is a critical component to any Advocacy effort. Good documentation includes: • Keeping notes of all
conversations including • Date • Time • Names of people contacted • Persons title • Agency name, telephone number • Description of what was discussed
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Medical documents and/or reports are very important documents to keep copies of. • Keep a binder or folder to hold your
documents in • Try to organize the documents in a way that
you can easily retrieve what you are looking for
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Know your communication style Tone, volume, and attitude Practice • What is my message? • Who should receive the message? • How can my message be presented? • What would help me feel more comfortable? • How can I take care of myself in the middle
of a conflict?
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Effective advocacy begins with you. The understanding of who you are in relationship to the problem and also what your strengths and weaknesses are can carry you a long way when advocating for yourself. Seek the advice of those who you can trust and who offer objective feedback Believe in yourself
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• Presents to give yourself
• Setting boundaries • Confiding in a trusted
friend or family member • Patience
We can only control the actions of ourselves
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Katie Muirhead Advocacy Specialist
1 800 263-5404 ext. 229