Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy

Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy
Author: Amy Conley Wright
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781452260945

Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy: Changing the World for Children (by Amy Conley Wright and Kenneth J. Jaffe) offers an interdisciplinary approach to child advocacy, nurturing key skills through a proven six-step process that has been used to train child advocates and create social change around the world. The approach is applicable for micro-advocacy for one child, mezzo-advocacy for a community or group of children, and macro-advocacy at a regional, national, or international level. This practical text offers skill-building activities and includes timely topics such as how to use social media for advocacy. Case studies of advocacy campaigns highlight applied approaches to advocacy across a range of issues, including child welfare, disability, early childhood, and education. Words of wisdom from noted child advocates from the U.S. and around the world, including a foreword from Dr. Jane Goodall, illustrate key concepts. Readers are guided through the process of developing a plan and tools for a real-life child advocacy campaign.

Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy

Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy
Author: Amy Conley Wright
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 148331216X

Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy: Changing the World for Children (by Amy Conley Wright and Kenneth J. Jaffe) offers an interdisciplinary approach to child advocacy, nurturing key skills through a proven six-step process that has been used to train child advocates and create social change around the world. The approach is applicable for micro-advocacy for one child, mezzo-advocacy for a community or group of children, and macro-advocacy at a regional, national, or international level. This practical text offers skill-building activities and includes timely topics such as how to use social media for advocacy. Case studies of advocacy campaigns highlight applied approaches to advocacy across a range of issues, including child welfare, disability, early childhood, and education. Words of wisdom from noted child advocates from the U.S. and around the world, including a foreword from Dr. Jane Goodall, illustrate key concepts. Readers are guided through the process of developing a plan and tools for a real-life child advocacy campaign.

Child and Family Advocacy

Child and Family Advocacy
Author: Steven R. Isham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Legal assistance to children
ISBN: 9781425108205

Child and Family Advocacy is a road map to help you help your child. You know your child best and when you get that "gut" feeling that something is wrong, you are usually correct. What do you do? What are the laws? Who is on your side? Why won't they listen to you? What are your rights? Many questions are answered here written specifically for the Parent and Family that no one has taken the time to share their rights with them. To give them informed consent of what they plan to do with their child, to make them an equal participating member of the "Team" for Identification, Referral, Evaluation, Planning, Implementation and Review of their child's life. This endeavor includes specific Chapters on your Child's Advocacy, Psych-Social and Developmental History, Education, Special Education, Parental Rights, Developmental Disabilities, Juvenile Justice, Behavioral Health/Grief, Funding, Laws to Advocate By, Conflict Resolution and Advocacy Management and Documentation. The Appendix covers National Resources, State Resources, copy of your Parental Safeguards from IDEIA 2004, Key Concepts and lists of acronyms from several children's systems. Two hands-on tools for Parents to control and drive their child's trip to success; The Psych-Social/Developmental History can be completed at your convenience without being rushed and missing key elements. An incomplete Psycho-Social/Developmental History can be as damaging to your child as none at all. The second tool is the, Advocacy Plan which will help you to identify what you believe is the Problem. It will assist you in defining the goal including objectives, methods, resources, strengths, laws and systems required to get your child's needs met. Never forget you know your child best and their most valued and successful advocate because you hold that one element that no one can match, Love.

Child and Family Advocacy

Child and Family Advocacy
Author: Anne McDonald Culp
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461474566

Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience—doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them. More than ever, the responsibility of the helping professions extends from aiding individuals and families to securing social justice for the larger community. With this duty in clear sight, the contributors to Child and Family Advocacy assert that advocacy is neither a dying art nor a lost cause but a vital platform for improving children's lives beyond the scope of clinical practice. This uniquely practical reference builds an ethical foundation that defines advocacy as a professional competency and identifies skills that clinicians and researchers can use in advocating at the local, state and federal levels. Models of the advocacy process coupled with first-person narratives demonstrate how professionals across disciplines can lobby for change. Among the topics discussed: Promoting children's mental health: collaboration and public understanding. Health reform as a bridge to health equity. Preventing child maltreatment: early intervention and public education Changing juvenile justice practice and policy. A multi-level framework for local policy development and implementation. When evidence and values collide: preventing sexually transmitted infections. Lessons from the legislative history of federal special education law. Child and Family Advocacy is an essential resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, family studies, public health, developmental psychology, social work and social policy.

Child Advocacy

Child Advocacy
Author: Alfred J. Kahn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1973
Genre: Child welfare
ISBN:

Child Advocacy

Child Advocacy
Author: James R. Tompkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1998
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

This book presents an outline of the fundamental concepts of child advocacy and its emergence as a social movement dedicated to improving the welfare of special education/special need children, delinquent children, and other children in need of social services. Tompkins addresses the alienation of children from supportive environments vital to their psychological and social development, a complex problem which often includes deficiencies at home, school and in the community, and which is often compounded by subtle forces that "identifies" children as abnormal while failing to provide resources to improve their welfare. Tompkins outlines the principles of child advocacy, how they have evolved, and how advocacy plans can be implemented by individuals, community and professional groups, and educators. Model programs, training procedures, and strategies for collaborating with college and university personnel are presented. A subject of growing importance for public, professional, and political communities, this book explores advocacy as a process that seeks to champion the rights of all children and make every child's needs known and met.

Child Advocacy

Child Advocacy
Author: Gary Melton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461335876

The details of the history of child advocacy have been vividly described in an article by Takanishi (1978). In reviewing her work and that of others, four historical phases in child advocacy can be identified: 1. The first period was the evolution of the concept of childhood as a distinct and separate developmental stage. Aries (1962) has described how the concept of childhood as a period different from adulthood did not evolve philosophically until the sixteenth century. It was only after that time, through the influence of Rousseau and other philosophers, that childhood was seen, at first romantically, and later more realistically, as a special time for growth and learning, with unique styles and mechanisms. 2. It was not until the nineteenth century, however, with the rapid rise that a formal effort was made to of science and major socioeconomic changes identify and try to meet children's needs. A number of organizations specifi cally devoted to children arose and attempts to help children in ways consis tent with the developing knowledge became a major social issue. Initially, the interest was in children's health with infant mortality, child labor, and safety as paramount issues. Although socioeconomic factors initiated the change (children's labor was no longer economically necessary), a basic humanistic philosophy underlay this phase. Major dedication to alleviating the pain and injury done to children who were helpless to defend themselves and who were being deprived of opportunities for growth became the goal.

Creative Child Advocacy

Creative Child Advocacy
Author: Ved Kumari
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2004-08-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780761932406

`Combining global examples of cases with practical solutions, this book will be of interest to anyone involved in child advocacy, from judges to probation officers' - childRIGHT `The greatest achievement of this book may be its inspiration to those also willing to "swim against the tide" as child advocates... The authors are open about the practicalities of their work and the tensions they have experienced... their personal accounts contain gripping narratives of real attempts to improve situations for children' - Adoption & Fostering This collection of original articles by an international team of contributors addresses a wide range of issues affecting children and youth such as: child labour; international child custody abduction; juvenile delinquency; child abuse and neglect; and date violence among teenagers. The innovative approaches proposed by the contributors to deal with these concerns include: creating a child advocacy centre within a private firm; litigation strategies; and developing a handbook that explains courts processes to abused children.