Category: Advocacy

Introduction Social work advocacy aims to influence policies, practices and laws that affect all people in a specific class or group (Dalrymple & Boylan, 2013). This is a comprehensive analysis paper for creating a proposal for a social advocacy action plan to authorize grants for training and support services for families and caregivers of people…

For this assignment, I am tasked with taking my personal leadership style and elaborating on how I utilize it my leadership role as an RN supervisor at my place of employment in order to perform my duties on an everyday basis. Nurse leadership is a very important position to be in due to it creating…

As children and young people are usually shunned from society due to their ‘age’ and ‘lack of experience in the real world’, they are considered powerless as they don’t have much room to voice their opinions on the decisions that impact their livelihoods, nor do they have an input when the decisions that are made…

I have been given the opportunity to do my final placement at Annecto in their Speakers Bank program. Annecto is a social not for profit organisation with community contacts throughout Australia. They offer and provide services that help individual feel safe and comfortable at home. They deliver these services to people with disabilities, older people,…

Collaborating and Advocating for Diverse Clients: The Case of Jun Context Jun is a 15-year-old girl whose parents have contacted me to request that she enter counseling.  They indicated that they had concerns about her “plummeting grades” and shared that this decline in academic performance coincided with the death of a beloved grandmother who lived…

Defining Obesity Obesity is defined in terms of a person’s weight and height. It is calculated based on a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI). A person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters provides the BMI on a pre-determined scale provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 The…

Advocacy has been defined as the process of helping the cause of, speaking, or writing in favour of a person or group as well as interceding on behalf of the person. (Segens Medical Dictionary 2012). According to Segens Medical Dictionary 2012, advocacy provides information and acts as a tool to provide self-empowerment for patient’s health…

Advocacy is an act of soliciting for a cause, idea, policy or support with the desire to provide help and support to encourage individuals in the state of need (Almog-Bar & Schmid, 2014). Social media have been identified by many researchers has a strong medium for advocacy, it has expanded advocacy efforts by connecting new…

This essay will evaluate and highlight the similarities between the values and principles that underpin mediation, counselling and advocacy. It discusses the role of mediation within young people and how it may impact in the case study of Sam. A particular type of advocacy and its impacts will be explored and recommended for Sam. The…

In the modern world of research, numerous individual has come out to increase the depth of studies conducted previously regarding the diverse areas of study in the world currently. Among the many areas of study, socioeconomics has become a core area of research mainly due to its application in the everyday lives of people around…