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

Examples of Advocacy in a sentence

• Target Surveys were provided broadly to stakeholders of the early intervention and specia l education system in Maryland, including the Local Infants and Toddlers Program Directors, Local Preschool Coordinators, Local Special Education Directors, Parents Place of Maryland, SICC, SESAC, and Education Advocacy Coalition (EAC).

• Children’s Advocacy Center STATEMENT OF INTENTFull MDT participation at case review allows for the contributions of diverse professional perspectives and expertise to optimize informed decision-making, case planning and coordinated service delivery.

• Advocacy is an independent office within the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

• They're getting their 10% of this funding and as you can see the Children Advocacy Center just in 2123 biennium provided 9,611 services that included 1,078 ForensicInterviews, sad but that's how much they've provided.

• The summer transition program is the result a collaborative partnership between Albany State University, Southwest Georgia Workforce Development Board, Dougherty County School System, and Albany Technical College, Georgia Department of Labor Vocational Rehabilitation, Albany Advocacy Resource Center, and Albany Business Leadership to provide an educational enrichment / technology-training program for high school students with disabilities.

More Definitions of Advocacy

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

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 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 all of the following:

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—