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Why social advocacy
1. Why social advocacy?By: HENDRICKS GUMPAL
2. Why Social Advocacy? Social Advocacy One of the mandates of social work is to advance the interests of social justice, particularly on behalf of populations or groups that have been disadvantaged, disempowered, or discriminated against. Social advocacy can help us to influence social policy (including governmental decision- makers) for the purposes of advancing social justice.
3. What is Advocacy and How do we Use it in Social Work? Advocacy … promotes equality, social justice and social inclusion. It can empower people to speak up for themselves. Advocacy can help people become more aware of their own rights, to exercise those rights and be involved in and influence decisions that are being made about their future.
4. What is Advocacy and How do we Use it in Social Work? We see here that advocacy involves ensuring that service users are able to have a voice in decisions that concern their lives – to make their views known and be heard.
5. The notion of advocacy as a mechanism to promote social justice is an element of other advocacy definitions from various sources. Social justice reflects the activism of advocacy and has been explained as ‘an idea that mobilizes people to act in order to bring about change’ (Newman and Yeates, 2008: 2)[Advocacy is] a crucial element in achieving social justice. It is a way to ensure that everyone matters and everyone is heard – including people who are at risk of exclusion and people who have particular difficulties in making their views known. (SIAA, 2010:
6. Case (or issue-based) and systemic (or cause) advocacy This model identifies two elements of advocacy: Case or issue-based advocacy (where work is focused with individuals or small groups such as families in a task- centred way). Systemic or cause advocacy (where knowledge from individual cases contributes to collective advocacy for systemic change to legislation, policy or practice).
7. For many social workers case advocacy is more likely to be part of their day-to-day practice. The empowering potential of advocacy can best be understood in terms of the relationship between case and systemic advocacy, which identifies how advocacy can contribute to changes at both individual (case) and structural (systemic) levels.
8. Advocacy is a process for change, a process for learning. It stimulates respect for children’s and young people’s rights and promotes participation in the planning and challenging of the systems that impact on their lives. Acting on children’s and young people’s experiences and views, the advocacy extends beyond individual casework. (UCAN, 2005)
9. Combining the promotion of rights with changes in policy and practice required the advocacy project to: • Listen to and hear the views of individual young people who had presented feedback about their experiences of case advocacy, the advocacy service and the systems they were involved in. • Use the views of young people to inform cause or systemic advocacy. • Liaise closely with the child protection co-ordinator, independent chairs of Child Protection Conferences and social work teams. • Work together with project staff to facilitate practical ways of working towards greater participation of children and young people.
10. [Advocacy is] a crucial element in achieving social justice. It is a way to ensure that everyone matters and everyone is heard – including people who are at risk of exclusion and people who have particular difficulties in making their views known. SIAA, 2010: 4)
11. The Goal of Social Advocacy?
12. Promotes social inclusion Speak up for themselves Exercise rights and influence decisions Promotes equality, justice Social work promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work. Advocacy promotes equality, social justice and social inclusion. It can empower people to speak up for themselves. Advocacy can help people become more aware of their own rights, to exercise those rights and be involved in and influence decisions that are being made about their future. (Lee, 2007) Promotes social change Empowerment Liberation Principles of human rights and social justice SOCIAL ADVOCAC Y Social work and advocacy
13. Adams et al. (2009a) note that three dimensions of social work can be seen in the international definition, which also equate to Payne’s (2006) account of approaches to social work: Promoting social change. Promoting problem solving. Empowerment and liberation. The Goal of Social Advocacy?