Advocacy definition

Advocacy means acting in support or a cause or proposal.

Advocacy means the assistance provided which supports, supplements, intervenes and/or links the client and their dependents with the appropriate service components to encourage self-determination, autonomy, physical and emotional safety, and to offer information that will support independence. This can be viewed as a combination of active listening and facilitating personal problem solving along with researching options of action, safety planning, community outreach and education; it may include medical, dental, financial, employment, legal and housing assistance.

Advocacy means advocacy on behalf of a specific client for the purpose of accessing needed services;

Examples of Advocacy in a sentence

• Some of these practices were implemented smoothly (e.g., the Office of Investigations and Advocacy investigations), while others required more heroic efforts (e.g., many staff continue to be required to work double shifts in order to meet prescribed staff‐ youth ratios).

• Industrial relations researchers and labor economists continue to document the pervasiveness of heterogeneity in the workplace.8 Advocacy persists to add an occupational item to the UI wage record.

• These shall include: Chairs of the Housing Task Force, Marketing Task Force, Governance Task Force, Technical Assistance/Conference Task Force, RSS Task Force, and Advocacy Task Force.

• ROM AMERICA shall issue two separate checks for a total amount of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) as follows: (a) one check made payable to the State of California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in the amount of thirty thousand dollars, ($30,000), representing 75% of the total penalty; and (b) one check to Consumer Advocacy Group, Inc.

• Support non-academic activities such as Health, Out of School Youth (OSY), Teacher and District Advocacy, and outreach on behalf of migrant students H.

More Definitions of Advocacy

Advocacy means advocacy on behalf of an individual or family, and not on behalf of a cause or a group of people.

Advocacy means action to assist or represent a person or group of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses in securing their rights, obtaining needed services, investigating complaints, and removing barriers to identified needs.

Advocacy means all of the following:

Advocacy means those activities undertaken on behalf of persons who are receiving or have received mental health services to protect their rights or to secure or upgrade treatment or other services to which they are entitled.

Advocacy means the exercise of a right of audience before a court, tribunal or other person;

Advocacy means pleading an individual's cause or speaking or writing in support of an individual that may include representation before public or private entities on the behalf of one's self, another individual or a group of individuals.

Advocacy means pleading an individual’s cause or speaking or writing in support of an individual. To the extent permitted by State law or the rules of the agency before which an individual is appearing, a non-lawyer may engage in advocacy on behalf of another individual. Advocacy may—