Advocacy & Empowerment

Advocacy & Empowerment Definitions

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The act or process of advocating or supporting a cause or proposal, one that pleads the cause of another, and one that supports or promotes the interests of another

What is advocacy?

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The belief that individual and collective actions are necessary to fight injustices that lead toward improving

What is Social Justice Advocacy?

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These professionals live up to their reputation of being nice people by the manner in which they consistently strive to promote harmony with others while avoiding and deflecting interpersonal conflicts in the school or organization in which they work

What is Nice Counselor Syndrome?

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These describe an important counseling term: Personal commitment, hope, social supports, common goals, available action, not being afraid of conflict or tension, comfort with discomfort, understanding process, historical successes, and having a role model

What is Empowerment?

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These explain the importance of ... -To combat the systemic changes for social justice -Develop professional identification -Reduce inter-professional conflict, hostility and mistrust -Provide broader solutions -Plan cooperative and mutually defined projects and goals -Develop and implement projects and goals that support and facilitate cooperative partnerships

What is Collaboration?