Find your voice, hold your ground
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General Admission
$50
For over 35 years, Community Resource Unit has been working across Queensland to help people with disability take control of their lives. This workshop - led by presenters with experience in advocating for and alongside people with disability - will introduce participants to the principles and fundamentals of social advocacy.
This workshop is for people with disability and family members, as well as close friends and allies, who take up an unpaid advocacy role, or would like to learn where to begin.
Learning Objectives
- Understand why people with disability need social advocacy.
- Recognise what to advocate for: inclusion and ‘the good life’ for people with disability.
- Know what common forms of social advocacy there are and what they mean, and understand what may be called advocacy that is not.
- Be able to describe the elements or principles of social advocacy and their importance.
- Look at the costs of advocacy and consider where potential conflicts of interest lie.
- Identify barriers to social advocacy and how to overcome them.
- Develop strategies to support effective advocacy.
