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Clerkin, Richard M. "Equifinality in nonprofit advocacy : a neoinstitutional exploration of nonprofit advocacy /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3243778.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2006.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 17, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-12, Section: A, page: 4696. Advisers: Wolfgang Bielefeld; Kirsten A. Gronbjerg.
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Dean, Jennifer Kaye. "Quantifying Social Justice Advocacy Competency: Development of the Social Justice Advocacy Scale." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cps_diss/40.

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Social justice advocacy has been a force throughout the history of Counseling Psychology and has been described as more critical to the field than any other time in its long history (Toporek & McNally, 2006). Accordingly, in 2002, the American Counseling Association endorsed the Advocacy Competencies in an effort to advance the status of social advocacy by defining competency for counselors engaged in social advocacy (Lewis, Arnold, House, & Toporek, 2002). However, at the writing of this article, these competencies had not yet been operationalized. Therefore, a comprehensive review of the multidisciplinary literature was conducted and seventy- three skills consistent with these competencies were identified and used to further describe what it means to be a competent social justice advocate. These skills were then used to create a measure of social justice advocacy. Content validity of the items was addressed through the use of expert ratings. One hundred participants were recruited to take this measure. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a four-factor model of social justice advocacy skills: Collaborative Action, Social/Political Advocacy, Client Empowerment, and Client/Community Advocacy. Evidence for construct validity was found in the expected positive correlations between the social advocacy survey and the Multicultural Knowledge and Awareness Scale (Ponterotto et al., 2002) and the Miville-Guzman Universal-Diverse Orientation Scale- Short Form (Fuertes et al., 2000). The resulting 43- item survey serves as a starting point for operationalizing and assessing counselors’ competence in social justice advocacy.
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McNally, Stephen James. "Advocacy and empowerment : self advocacy groups for people with a learning disability." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434573.

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Cederlund, Veronica, and Helena Larsson. "Advocacy for Effective Activism." Thesis, Linköping University, The Tema Institute, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-6746.

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The Movement Action Plan (MAP) was created by Bill Moyer (1933-2002), an experienced activist engaged in movements for civil rights, peace and the environment, as he believed activists need to become aware of the roles they and their organisations are playing in the larger social movement in order to become successful. MAP is a practical strategy and action-planning model as well as a “how-to-do it” analytical tool for evaluating and organising social movements. The aim of this study is to investigate if the success of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) can be explained by the MAP model through a triangulation of methods; quantitative content analysis of the SSNC’s action plans and annual reports (2000-2005), as well as qualitative interviews with employees at the SSNC. Throughout the research materials and interviews, the organisation clearly demonstrates that they advocate as effective activists according to Moyer. The overall conclusion from this research is that Moyer’s tools to a great extent already is utilised, and that this could explain the SSNC’s success in transforming from a small group of educated elites into becoming a social movement.

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Lindeman, Sandra, and Andinsson Helena Josefsson. "Sjuksköterskan som patientens förespråkare : En litteraturstudie som beskriver faktorer som påverkar sjuksköterskan i rollen som förespråkare." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-1422.

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Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskan har enligt kompetensbeskrivningen och ICN:s etiska kod ett ansvar att förespråka patienten. Begreppet advocacy myntades i USA under 1970-talet och sedan dess har begreppet diskuterats i litteraturen. Advocacy innebär att sjuksköterskan ska kunna uttyda patientens önskemål, kommunicera med patient och närstående, försäkra sig om patientens säkerhet, respektera och beskydda patientens rättigheter och tala samt agera på uppdrag av patienten. Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva faktorer som påverkar sjuksköterskan i rollen som patientens förespråkare. Metod: En litteraturstudie baserad på 13 vetenskapliga artiklar, varav tio kvalitativa och tre kvantitativa. Resultat: Författarna fann i det analyserade materialet, fyra huvudfaktorer som på olika sätt påverkade sjuksköterskan i rollen som förespråkare. Dessa huvudfaktorer är sjuksköterskan som person, sjuksköterskeprofession, samarbetet med läkaren och arbetsmiljön. I en av de analyserande studierna återfanns även anhöriga som en faktor. Diskussion: Att sjuksköterskan själv är en faktor som är viktig för patientvården är något som Jean Watson belyser i sin omvårdnadsteori. Hon menar att omsorgen inte får det utrymme den bör ha inom vården men också i övriga samhället och att det leder till svårigheter för bevarandet av den ursprungliga mänskliga omsorgen. Att stärka professionen och se den skild från det medicinska området är därför viktigt. Författarna menar att även om sjuksköterskan själv är en viktig faktor kommer hon likväl behöva en stödjande miljö för att orka och våga agera utifrån sina värderingar som person och profession fullt ut.
Background: The nurse has, according to the description of competence and the ethical code of ICN, a responsibility to advocate the patient. The idea of advocacy was coined in the USA during the 1970s and since then it has been discussed in the literature. Advocacy means that the nurse should be able to interpret the wishes of the patient, to communicate with the patient and his/hers relatives, to assure the safety of the patient, to respect and protect the rights of the patient and to speak and act on behalf of the patient.  Aim: The aim is to describe factors that affect the nurse in her role as the patient’s advocate.  Method: A literature review based on 13 research reports, of which ten are qualitative and three quantitative.  Result: In the analyzed material the authors’ found four factors, which in different ways affected the nurse in her role as advocate. These factors are the nurse as a person, the nursing profession, the cooperation with the doctor, and the working environment. In one of the analyzed studies the family of the patient was also found as a factor.  Discussion: That the nurse herself is an important factor for the care of the patient is something that Jean Watson illustrates in her nursing theory. She argued that human care do not get the space it should have in health care but also in the rest of society and that it leads to difficulties for the preservation of the original human care. To strengthen the profession and to view it as separated from the medical area is therefore important. The authors mean that even if the nurse in herself is one important factor she will, however, need a supportive environment to be able to fully sustain and dare to act according to her values as a person and profession.
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Kinley, Gary J. "An examination of the advocacy techniques employed by three state-level child advocacy groups." Virtual Press, 1986. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/471162.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the advocacy techniques employed by three state-level child advocacy groups in a mid-western state and to determine the effectiveness of such techniques in influencing policy and legislation.The groups studied were a government-funded bureau, a professional association, and a varied member organization. Each was selected because it met the qualifications set forth for that particular group type. Data collection took place during June and July, 1981.The records examined during data collection included minutes of meetings, publications, fiscal reports, legislative reports and bills, by-laws, and newspaper articles. The data discerned from the records described the groups' founding, objectives, structure, membership, finances, and advocacy strategies, particularly public information campaigns, training, and lobbying efforts. Interviews were conducted with persons knowledgeable of the groups' activities, as necessary.Data were organized into the categories of background information, objectives, membership, structure, funding, and advocacy efforts. Issues considered by any of the three groups were classified either as legislation or as a child-oriented issue. Advocacy techniques utilized to advance a group's position on a piece of legislation were paired with the bill. The effectiveness of the techniques was determined via a scale which examined a bill's progression through the legislative process. Patterns of effective advocacy were listed. Similarly, advocacy techniques employed to advance a group's position on child-oriented issues were paired with the issues. Patterns of advocacy were discerned from that information.As a result of the data analysis, the following conclusions were made; (a) a variety of techniques were used by the groups and contributed to effective advocacy; (b) the techniques of writing to and meeting with legislators or their staffs on behalf of a group were utilized most commonly in successful efforts related to legislation; (c) collaboration and multiple efforts were related to effective advocacy; (d) the professional association was most successful in its legislative advocacy efforts; and (e) the three groups took more positions and utilized more advocacy techniques on child-oriented issues than on legislation.
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Nicholson-Crotty, Jill Denise. "The stages of nonprofit advocacy." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4956.

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This dissertation argues that advocacy is a two-stage decision in which organizations must first decide whether or not to undertake political activity through advocacy or lobbying and then choose between the set of strategic actions that, based on available financial and human resources, are available to them. These are separate decisions with separate constraints. The decision to advocate is a strategic stance taken by nonprofit organizations in policy environments that necessitate such activity and in which it is politically conducive for them to undertake the cost of such actions. Once an organization has decided that it will undertake advocacy activities, it must determine the specific activities, collaboration, grassroots advocacy, or direct lobbying, that will help it to pursue that course most effectively. These hypotheses are tested in an analysis of the advocacy activities of over 500 nonprofit reproductive health service providers. Data for this study were gathered from the National Center for Charitable Statistics within the Urban Institute and directly from IRS Form 990s filed by the organizations. The findings suggest that there are strong and consistent relationships between policy and politics and the political activity of nonprofit service providers. In states with more restrictive reproductive health policy environments, nonprofit organizations that provide these services are more likely to engage in advocacy activity. The findings also suggest that, even when controlling for the policy environment, 501(c)(3)s are more likely to become politically active in states where they have a larger number of political allies. Additional analyses suggest that there is a negative relationship between government monies and the aggressiveness of advocacy and the use of multiple advocacy strategies. Interestingly, this finding is consistent with the expectations offered in the resource dependence literature and the results suggest only a tenuous relationship between institutional variables and decisions regarding organizational aggressiveness in the choice of advocacy strategies.
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DeBoer, Stewart Brett. "Visual advocacy campaign for literacy /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11501.

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Mitten, Lauren. "Phthalates: Science, Advocacy, and Biomonitoring." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/614.

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Phthalates are a class of ubiquitous environmental contaminants that cause health problems including reproductive disorders, asthma, and obesity. Advocacy against phthalates has been taking place in the US since the mid-1990s, and eight in-depth interviews were conducted with advocates and scientists in order to construct a history of this advocacy. There have been a variety of campaigns and victories; those around medical devices, children’s products, and personal care products are examined in detail. Phthalate exposure data for a representative sample of the US population indicates that exposure to DEP, DEHP, DnBP, and BBzP went down between 1999 and 2010. As these were the phthalates that had the largest volume of advocacy during the period researched, this decrease suggests that advocacy around specific phthalates is effective in reducing exposure and that more advocacy around phthalates, and potentially other harmful chemicals, could result in further decreased exposure and improved health in the US population. Additional research using more finely graded biomonitoring data would help deepen understanding about correlations between advocacy and phthalate exposure. In reviewing the health effects of phthalates, it was found that a disproportionate amount of the research is on male reproductive health effects, which is partially responsible for the fact that a disproportionate amount of phthalate advocacy is on heath effects relating to men, particularly male babies. Both phthalate science and advocacy sometimes treat women instrumentally, objectifying them or regarding them as incubators. To combat this, scientists could do more research on the health effects of phthalates on women and advocates could take more care not to neglect or instrumentalize women in their efforts to reduce phthalate exposure for all people.
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McHale, Tara Kate. "Communitarianism : from method to advocacy." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243074.

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Ezme, Albeniz T. "Advocacy Planning in Urban Renewal: Sulukule Platform As the First Advocacy Planning Experience of Turkey." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1393235453.

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Dalrymple, Jane. "Constructions of advocacy : an analysis of professional advocacy in work with children and young people." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400937.

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De, La Paz Michelle M. "Professional Counselors' Perceptions of Knowledge, Barriers, Support and Action of Professional Advocacy." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1301.

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Leaders in the counseling field are encouraging practitioners to develop a social justice perspective to counseling to ensure fair and equitable treatment of clients and stress the importance of advocating on behalf of these individuals (Lee, 2007; Lee & Waltz, 1998; Lewis, Arnold, House, & Toporek, 2003; Lewis & Bradley, 2000). The counseling profession, because it is a relatively young field struggling with its own identity (Chi Sigma Iota, 2005; Eriksen, 1999; Gale & Austin, 2003; Myers & Sweeney, 2004) could also benefit from advocacy. A two-pronged approach of professional advocacy, which is the process of advocating for both clients and the profession is the most effective and comprehensive method. The results of this study were intended to bring greater insight into professional counselors' willingness and ability to advocate on behalf of the profession by identifying their perceptions of activities, knowledge, skills, qualities, importance, need, barriers and support for professional advocacy, and by exploring the relationship between counseling professionals' attitudes toward professional counselor advocacy and their perceived level of conducting professional advocacy activities. Results indicated that professional counselors believe that they participate in professional advocacy activities and that they have the knowledge, skills, and qualities to conduct those professional advocacy activities. They report gaining most knowledge of professional advocacy from publications, then from modeling, then conferences and workshops, then from their master's or doctoral program, and last from websites. They endorsed the importance and need to conduct professional advocacy most due to needing to improve the public and professional image of counselors. Participants indicated the top three barriers to advocating are: not enough time, roadblocks caused by other professionals, and insufficient knowledge of professional advocacy strategies; however generally find support to advocate in colleagues, counselor xi educators, supervisors and professional associations. Knowledge, skill, qualities, importance/need, barriers and support produced positive relationships when correlated to professional advocacy activities meaning that they will be more involved in professional counselor advocacy activities if they endorse these ideas. Additionally, several barriers produced significant, negative relationships with advocacy activities indicating that if they perceive barriers, they are less likely to be involved in those advocacy activities.
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Decker, Karen M. "A study of relationships between counselor education, social justice advocacy competence, and likelihood to advocate." Thesis, Capella University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3602466.

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The relationship between social justice advocacy training, counselor competence in social justice advocacy and likelihood to advocate of counselor educators and counselor trainees who are in the practicum and internship phase of their training in Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)-accredited master's-level counselor education programs has not been researched. Developing an empirical understanding of these relationships is needed to inform counselor education practices related to preparation for social justice advocacy. The purpose of this study was to take a preliminary step toward filling the gap in current literature concerning counselor education and its role in preparing counselors to be social justice advocates. A convenience sample of 112 counselor educators and counselor trainees who are in the practicum and internship phase of their training in CACREP-accredited master's-level counselor education programs was utilized. The specific research design was a correlational survey research design utilizing multivariate linear regression analysis and correlational analysis using SPSS that examined the relationship between the variables of social justice advocacy training, ratings of competence in social justice advocacy, and the likelihood to advocate. It also examined the relationship in ratings of competence in social justice advocacy and the likelihood to advocate between counselor educators and counselor trainees. The findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between social justice advocacy training and ratings of social justice advocacy competence. It also appears that advocacy training leads to an increased likelihood to advocate particularly at community and societal levels. The findings further indicate that counselor trainees who report greater advocacy competence are more likely to engage in advocacy activities at the three levels of advocacy as defined by the ACA Advocacy Competencies (ACA, 2003). These findings taken together support the inclusion of social justice advocacy training in counselor education programs.

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French, Jade. "Art as advocacy : exploring curatorial practice by learning disabled artists as a site for self-advocacy." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19432/.

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Over the past 40 years within the UK the concept of self-advocacy has gained momentum by enabling learning disabled people to speak out in order to affect change. In the same period, inclusive approaches have been taken up both in research and in the arts, reflecting a growing recognition of learning disabled people as researchers, artists, performers and communicators. Yet curation has rarely been used as an inclusive practice and then principally in museums dealing with history rather than in the context of art galleries. Via a practice-led research approach, Art as Advocacy addressed this gap by exploring the potential for curatorial practice by learning disabled artists to act as a site for self-advocacy. It brought together members of self-advocacy group Halton Speak Out and members of Bluecoat's inclusive arts project Blue Room, to curate a visual arts exhibition titled Auto Agents. These curators developed an exhibition theme, collaborated with artists, commissioned new artwork and designed accessible interpretation for audiences. Through curating Auto Agents, the purpose of this research has been to produce a rich account of the ways in which curatorial and self-advocacy practices intersect. This intersection, whereby tools found in self-advocacy were carried over into curatorship, provided new methodologies that enabled curating to become an inclusive practice. This attention to process results not only in curating becoming more usable by more people, but also more transparent and rigorous. By achieving this, this research delineates to understanding the processes and practices by which our cultural spaces can become democratised.
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Starbuck, Ian. "Animal advocacy in a pluralist society." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/92295/.

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Human concern with the moral status of non-human animals can be seen to stretch quite some way back into human history. In ancient Greece such concerns were considered to be very much a part of the ethical agenda, with thinkers on the issue being divided into four main schools of thought: animism; vitalism; mechanism; and anthropocentrism (Ryder 1989, chapter two). The leading light of the animist school was the renowned mathematician Pythagoras (circa 530 BC), who asserted the view that animals, like humans, were in possession of immaterial souls which, upon death, would be reincarnated in another human or animal body. In accordance with his beliefs, Pythagoras practiced kindness to animals and adhered to a vegetarian diet. Vitalism, of which perhaps the most famous exponent was Aristotle (384-322 BC), held to a belief in the interdependence of soul and body. Aristotle accepted the idea that human beings were animals, but he considered them to be at the apex of a chain of being in which the less rational existed only to serve the needs of the more rational. Mechanism held that both humans and animals were purely physical machines, and neither was in possession of the sort of soul that the animists and vitalists posited. Finally, anthropocentrism asserted that everything in the world has been created for the good of humans but, unlike the vitalism of Aristotle, rejected the idea of the essential ‘animality’ of humankind.
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Yamaoka, Takashi 1968. "The key elements of advocacy marketing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17877.

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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2004.
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Customer power is growing, and customers now have tools that inform them of the true state of affairs. This power enables them to avoid the pushy messages of marketers, make their own decisions, and determine what to buy. A company advocates for its customers and earns their trust. It may not be a strategy for everyone, but innovative companies are following this path. The marketing paradigm is shifting from traditional push-based marketing to trust-based advocacy marketing. This research identifies and summarizes the key elements needed to create customer advocacy. It considers the following research questions: What are the key elements to creating customer advocacy? What means or types are there in each key element? Which elements are influential on advocacy marketing in each company and industry? The author sent out requests for interviews to many firms and received affirmative replies from about thirty. Based on the data gathered by the author, twelve new key elements were identified, and several means for realizing these elements, which can be distilled in several ways. These key elements and means are effective for firms in a variety of industries and categories. In addition, the author introduces a new framework which can effectively identify a firm's position in terms of two dimensions: push and trust. This framework is useful for confirming differences between competitors and validating corporate strategies for building and maintaining competitive advantage. Few firms can afford to ignore advocacy marketing as a marketing strategy. Advocacy marketing is associated not only with customer marketing, but also with overall corporate strategy. This research will focus on enriching practical knowledge for the
(cont.) real world, and be a useful reference when a company launches its advocacy marketing campaigns.
by Takashi Yamaoka.
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Pagano, Giulia Marie. "Advocacy Practices of U.S. Pediatric Dentists." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308089035.

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Butler, Carole. "A study of effective appellate advocacy /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487676261013215.

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King, Jason. "The rhetorics of online autism advocacy." [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University, 2009. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-10152009-091905/unrestricted/King.pdf.

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Schetzina, Karen E. "Breastfeeding Advocacy Benefits Everyone (BABE) Coalition." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5125.

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Loetzerich, Jennifer. "Educational Advocacy and the Foster Child." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3797.

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In Georgia, there are high rates of instability in foster care, and each time a child changes placement, his or her support networks are gone until he or she can rebuild them. The purpose of this case study was to explore if current stakeholders provide effective support and assistance to professionals and others who assist foster students with their educational needs. This case study used a conceptual framework based on Rankism, in which students move up and down the rungs of the ladder of their social system. Data were collected via interviews with a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) worker, a Department Division of Family and Child Services (DFCS) caseworker, a former foster parent, a teacher, a school social worker, a school administrator, and a school counselor, all of whom were involved with foster children. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and then open coded using constant comparative analysis. Findings revealed a need for greater support, and illuminated the repercussions that may occur when students are moved from their homes and/or schools: They may lose their support networks, community supports, school supports, and recognition they had previously until these are rebuilt in their new placement. The major themes that emerged were (a) a need for data sharing, (b) effect of trauma on children, and (c) the need for improved educational advocacy. These findings, along with a review of the literature, led to the development of a policy change recommendation and the creation of a data system to enable collaboration amongst all agencies. The project that emerged was the creation of a data system that affords real-time transfer of educational records, allowing for appropriate educational plans to be put in place.
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Breen, James. "The persuasive advocate? Persuasion in legal advocacy and the role of the audience in determining persuasion." Thesis, Breen, James (2012) The persuasive advocate? Persuasion in legal advocacy and the role of the audience in determining persuasion. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2012. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41595/.

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This paper argues that the beliefs, attitudes and behaviour of the audience determine the effect of any persuasive communication. As a result of this, legal advocates must inquire into the beliefs, attitudes and behaviour of judges and juries (amongst other audiences) and must reject traditional ideas of persuasion being a quality inherent in a legal advocate.
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Figueroa, Aguilar Roxanne de Lourdes 1973. "Empowering communities through comprehensive community-based energy advocacy : assessing energy programs and advocacy in California and New Mexico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30109.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, February 2004.
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While energy permeates virtually all facets of our lives, from our pocketbooks to our health, issues regarding energy fail to garner widespread attention until price surges or blackouts impede everyday activities. With higher energy burdens and higher incidences of power plants in their neighborhoods, however, low-income and Latino/communities of color confront significant economic and environmental energy-related challenges on a daily basis. Energy policies not only impact the prices and provision of energy, but also affect the environmental, economic and physical well-being of communities. Sustainable energy policies that embrace renewable energy sources, energy-efficiency and conservation, and low-income energy programs, in conjunction with reliability and affordability issues, can significantly mitigate the environmental and economic energy burdens confronting low-income and communities of color, as well as the community at-large. Yet, community advocates concerned with issues such as sustainable development, housing, health, environmental justice, and economic development, to name but a few, often leave energy policy to the 'experts,' including utilities and regulators, which tend to overlook these issues, particularly with respect to low-income and communities of color.
(cont.) As a result, each state provides varying levels of energy efficiency and low-income energy assistance programs, leaving some communities out in the cold. This thesis explores the energy-related challenges confronting low-income and Latino communities in California and New Mexico. Through the analysis of two contrasting environmental and low-income energy programs and advocacy approaches in California and New Mexico, the goal of this thesis is to challenge the community 'laissez faire' approach to energy policy and highlight the vital role of comprehensive community-based energy advocacy.
by Roxanne de Lourdes Figueroa Aguilar.
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Selmane, Romeissa. "Examining the relationship between readiness for advocacy and the attainment of participation and advocacy goals in Project TEAM." Thesis, Boston University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/21251.

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Thesis (M.S.O.T.) PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
The purpose of this study is to understand if readiness for advocacy is associated with attainment of participation and advocacy goals for youth with developmental disabilities transitioning into adulthood. The transtheoretical model is used to conceptualize youth’s readiness to act when new knowledge and advocacy skills are gained through Project TEAM (Teens making Environmental and Activity Modification). Project TEAM is a 12-week group curriculum that teaches a problem-solving approach to identify and resolve environmental barriers to participation. Parents (n=17) and youth (n=12) ages 14-20 with developmental disabilities each rated the youth’s readiness for advocacy at initial, outcome and six week follow-up. Initial responses were grouped into preaction (precontemplation, contemplation and preparation) and action (action and maintenance). Each youth set a participation goal prior to Project TEAM for which the primary interventionist and principal investigator wrote goal attainment scaling (GAS) levels. Attainment of this participation goal and the application of three advocacy knowledge goals were evaluated at outcome. At outcome, GAS T-scores were calculated based on the attainment of the four goals. No significant difference was found in the GAS T-score between youth who began Project TEAM at the preaction versus the action stage. Youth with varying levels of readiness for advocacy at initial achieved their goals at outcome. Parents reported a significant increase in the youth’s readiness for advocacy between initial and outcome, and youth showed a similar, statistically non- significant trend. There appeared to be no relationship between attainment of a participation goal and change in readiness for advocacy; some youth who have no change in readiness for advocacy still achieved a participation goal, and youth who do not attain a participation goal still had changes in their readiness for advocacy. Results point to the potential benefits of Project TEAM to support changes in readiness for advocacy and attainment of a participation goal for youth with varying levels of readiness for change.
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Connelly, Kelsey. "Poverty in the classroom advocacy and equity /." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2010. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Connelly_KMIT2010.pdf.

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Whelan, James M., and n/a. "Education and Training For Effective Environmental Advocacy." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2002. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040526.140105.

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Research on environmental advocacy has tended to focus on outcomes and achievements rather than the processes through which these are achieved. In addition, minimal research has attended in detail to the complexity of environmental advocacy, or explored measures to through which to enhance advocates’ prospects of success. The environment movement itself has given scarce attention to promoting the skills, abilities and predispositions that contribute to effective advocacy. Indeed, most environmental non-government organisations (ENGOs) in Australia appear to believe that scientific or expert knowledge will be sufficient to influence environmental decision-makers and consequently provide minimal training or education to enhance advocacy. This thesis is a response to these problems. It seeks to develop an understanding of, and model for, activist education and training in the Australian environment movement. The two main bodies of literature that inform the study are social movement and adult education literature. The former provides the context for the study. Social movement theorists present various explanations of how and why environmental activists work for change. These theorists also discuss the organisational structures and modes of operation typically adopted by activists. The second body of literature is utilised in this thesis to provide a synthesis of relevant educational orientations, traditions and practices. Popular, experiential and adult environmental education offer promising strategies for advocacy organisations that seek to enhance activists’ skills and abilities. The research questions posed in this study lie at the convergence of these two bodies of literature. Two empirical studies were undertaken during this inquiry. The first was conducted with the Queensland Conservation Council, an environmental advocacy organisation where the researcher was employed for five years. The study drew on methods and techniques associated with ethnography and action research to identify, implement and evaluate a range of interventions which aimed to educate and train advocates. Three cycles of inquiry generated useful insights into environmental advocacy and identified useful strategies through which advocacy may be enhanced. The second study, a case study based on interviews and observation, explored the Heart Politics movement. The ethnographic research methods utilised in this case study resulted in a rich description and critical appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of Heart Politics gatherings as activist education. These two studies contributed to the development of a grounded and endogenous theory of education and training for environmental advocacy. This theory is based on a set of observations concerning the provision of activist education: (1) that most activist learning occurs informally and unintentionally through participation in social action such as environmental campaigns; (2) that this learning can be assessed according to a five-category framework and tends to favour specific categories including the development of social action and organisational development skills rather than alternative categories such as political analysis and personal development; (3) that this informal learning can be harnessed and enhanced through strategies which situate learning in the context of action and promote heightened awareness of the learning dimension of social action; and (4) that a key obstacle to education and training in the environment movement is a conspicuous lack of professional development or support for the people involved in facilitating and coordinating activist education activities and programs. These people are often volunteers and infrequently possess qualifications as educators or facilitators but are more likely to be seasoned activists. They tend to work in isolation as activist education activities are sporadic, geographically diffuse and ad hoc. These observations along with other insights acquired through participatory action research and ethnographic inquiry led to a set of conclusions, some of which have already been implemented or initiated during the course of this study. The first conclusion is that strategies to promote the professional development of activist educators may benefit from the development of texts tailored to the tactical orientations and political and other circumstances of Australian environmental advocacy groups. Texts, alone, are considered an inadequate response. The study also concludes that informal networks, formal and informal courses and other strategies to assist collaboration and peer learning among activist educators offer considerable benefits. Other conclusions pertain to the benefits of collaborating with adult educators and tertiary institutions, and professionals, to the relative merits of activist workshops and other forms of delivery, to the opportunities for activist training presented by regular environment movement gatherings and conferences and to the significant merits of promoting and supporting mentorship relationships between novice and experienced activists.
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Barnett, Alison Reremoana. "Child poverty and media advocacy in Aotearoa /." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2431.

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New Zealand has one of the worst rates of child poverty in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Research has shown that modern mass media provide a mediated cultural forum through which policy responses to child poverty are socially negotiated and from which public support for children in need is either cultivated or undermined. This thesis focuses on the role of media advocacy by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) who attempt to widen public debate and legitimate options for addressing child poverty. I investigate the case of the Government's Working for Families package and the controversy surrounding the media release of CPAG's negative evaluation of the package in the form of a research report Cut Price Kids. Attention is given to competing ideological frames underlying the Government's package, in the form of neo-liberal emphases on distinctions between God's and the Devil's poor. Attention is also given to CPAG's response, in the form of communitarian notions of collective responsibility for all families in need. Specifically, I analyse the role of the mass media in framing child poverty as a social issue across three levels of mass communication - production, representation, and reception. At the production level interviews were held with six journalists involved with reporting on Cut Price Kids and two members of CPAG. Fifteen Government and 5 CPAG press releases were also explored to document media production processes and restraints on public deliberations. In addition, the ideological stances influencing the framing of coverage were investigated. At the media representation level 21 press, seven radio, and five television items were analysed to establish the scope of public debate, whose perspectives were included, and the ways in which differing perspectives are combined. At the reception level four focus group discussions with lower socio-economic status (SES) parent groups, as well as follow-up photo-based interviews with eight participants were explored in order to document the role of media coverage in the lives of families with children living in poverty. Across levels, findings suggest that journalists are restrained by professional practices which maintain the importance of balance and detached objectivity, rather than interpretations of appropriate responses to child poverty. Tensions between the Government's emphasis on restricting support to families with parents in paid employment and CPAG's emphasis on the need to not discriminate against the children of out of work families framed coverage. The lower SES parents participating at the reception level challenged the restrained nature of coverage, which excluded people such as themselves, and openly questioned media characterisations of them as bludgers who are irresponsible parents. Overall, findings support the view that media are a key component of ongoing social dialogues through which public understandings of, and policy responses to, child poverty are constructed. Specifically, psychologists need to engage more with processes of symbolic power which shape the public construction of child poverty in a conservative manner that can lead to victim blaming, and restrains opportunities for addressing this pressing social concern.
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Van, Seters Deborah E. "Women's foreign policy advocacy in 1930s Britain." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0017/NQ53910.pdf.

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Tam, Dora Mei-Ying. "Advocacy intervention with abused Chinese Canadian women." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ51807.pdf.

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Schenck, William. "Emerald City| Environmental Advocacy through Experiential Design." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1590882.

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This thesis documents the research and development behind a proposed exhibition advocating for the principles of sustainable urbanism to young adults. Emerald City interprets Philadelphia as an evolving system of infrastructure and traces its relationship to the natural environment from the Industrial Age to the present, followed by an exploration of the city’s possible future through the lens of current proposals of sustainable development.

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Sheppard, Nancy Clare. "Citizen advocacy : an exploration of partner's views." Thesis, University of East London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532399.

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Advocacy has been an increasingly important concept in the field of social and health care over the last two decades. The 1986 Disabled Person's Act and the NHS and Community Care Act (1990) have both made reference to the roles available for independent representatives of individuals and advocacy organisations have been developed throughout the UK. Despite this there has been remarkably little investigation into the topic. The majority of the research in this area has focused on self-advocacy and legal or professional advocacy. Citizen advocacy, the development of a one to one relationship between an unpaid private individual and someone at risk of isolation or exclusion, has not been a popular area for systematic investigation. Research in this area has tended to focus on evaluating the services provided by citizen advocacy organisations to allocate funding or is literature of a descriptive nature to promote citizen advocacy as a positive concept in a person' s life to carers and service providers. Of the studies of a more critical nature, only three have involved the partner's views in their evaluation. The aim of the present study is to focus on the the views and perceptions of users of advocacy services, and to explore their views through qualitative methods of analysis. Six partners and their advocates where interviewed about their advocacy partnership and the transcripts analysed using an inductive grounded theory approach (Henwood and Pidgeon (1995)) to generate themes emerging from the data. Further analysis of three partner's transcripts and two advocate transcripts using "thematic decomposition" techniques (Stenner 1993) was done to identify subject positions and dominant discourses used to describe the citizen advocacy partnership. Four main themes emerged: qualities of the advocate, concept of advocacy, relationships to others (in comparison to advocate) and the development of the advocacy relationship. Each of the three transcripts analysed using thematic decomposition showed a variety of subject positions relating to the roles that the advocate and partner took in a dynamic relationship. The results are discussed in the context of previous research and clinical relevance. Suggestions for future research in this area are also considered.
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Buchli, Richard N. "Higher Education Alumni Associations and Political Advocacy." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10027092.

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Political advocacy is comprised of speaking on the behalf of a cause or participating as part of a political action group (Weerts, Cabrera, & Sanford, 2010). Because state financial support for public higher education has not been maintained at previous levels, higher education (HE) institutions have been recruiting alumni in an attempt to win state appropriations. As discovered by Avery (2012), very little research exists on the role of alumni associations in political advocacy efforts. In this study, a quantitative research approach was conducted to gather data on D1 public college and university alumni associations. The instrument utilized in this study was an online survey. Executive directors of alumni associations were invited to partake in the political advocacy survey over a 30-day period. The majority of alumni association executive directors reported their alumni association played a minor role in political advocacy. The largest group of alumni directors stated their associations had been politically active for more than 20 years. The most used tactic in political advocacy efforts was email. The least used tactic was to organize and hold public demonstrations. Data were collected for alumni associations nationwide and were compared by region of the country where each alumni association primarily operated. A majority of alumni directors said they did not collaborate with other colleges and universities. Even fewer alumni directors admitted collaborating with non-profit organizations or corporations. Alumni directors were asked to rate their level of support from the two major political parties in state legislatures. Ratings were assigned for political parties, HE committee members, and party leaders. Overall, Democrats and Republicans were rated somewhat similar except in the descriptive options of very supportive and unsupportive.

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Beane, Laurien. "Advocacy leadership in early childhood: Educators' perspectives." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2016. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/5e34673e143a1cf112414c3895b88d868d56da6d338f333b2ae90d6cca7e9ba0/1241002/Advocacy_leadership_in_early_childhood__Educators_perspectives.pdf.

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"This research examines possibilities for advocacy leadership in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings regulated by current ECEC policy (Council of Australian Governments [COAG], 2009a). Advocacy leadership has been defined by Blank (1997) as leading with long- term planning and vision which can be utilised to reform public regulations and policy. Building upon Blank’s (1997) construction of advocacy leadership, this research considers ways to open possibilities for advocacy leadership in the Australian ECEC context through exploring the position of educational leader through changing research approaches. Of central concern in this research are apparent silences regarding advocacy leadership in the implementation and development of current policies including the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and School Aged Care (NQF). A focus group and an individual interview were used as data collection methods to gather educators’ perspectives about advocacy leadership for themselves. Topical life history narratives were used as methodology to provide narratives for data analysis about one topic related to the participants’ work life. Participants were asked to share stories of their work life in response to questions about leadership in early childhood education. Participants were invited to join the focus group using purposeful selection. Four ECEC educators who did not hold a leadership position, were certificate, diploma or bachelor qualified with a minimum of five years’ experience and from the wider Brisbane area were invited to participate. Subsequently, one participant was invited to elaborate on her life history narrative responses through an individual interview. Although the research was focussed on the role of educational leaders in advocacy leadership, the participants were not educational leaders themselves. Data collected includes: a start list of constructs; transcripts of educators’ responses (from both the focus group and the interview) to questions about leadership prior to, and during, the introduction of the NQF; and field notes. A Foucauldian genealogical analysis was used to analyse the data which were located in educators’ topical life history narratives about their work. These were read through three discursive lenses, administrative, educational and governmental lenses. A reading of the data through these lenses shows ways in which administrative and educational leadership discourses can be seen to be predominant ways educators narrate their perspectives of leadership. At times, these narrations appear to express their experience of leadership as competing expectations and priorities. The analysis of the data reading for techniques of governmentality highlights ways in which there are multiple opportunities to construct leadership in ECEC. The consideration of ways discourses and techniques of governmentality enable and constrain advocacy leadership opens possibilities for thinking about and doing leadership differently in ECEC. This research could inform both ECEC leaders and educators in their practices and responses to current policy."
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Bryson, Krista Lynn. "A Regional Rhetoric for Advocacy in Appalachia." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429196463.

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Van, Ham Lane. "Civil Religion in Tucson Immigrant Advocacy Groups." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195027.

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This dissertation focuses on Derechos Humanos, Humane Borders and Samaritans, three Tucson, Arizona-based groups that seek to reduce the deaths of migrants illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico. Though the groups themselves are not religions, they use religious symbolism as part of their public rhetoric, arguing that immigrants are entitled to treatment and protection according to standards that are universal and pan-human. By advocating for the rights of immigrants regardless of their documentation, these groups have set off a wave of controversy that illustrates a significant contradiction in modernity. One the one hand, the modern idea of progress has been rationalized by organizing populations in the form of nation-states, yet modernity has also seen the spread of human rights and humanitarian philosophies stressing the fundamental unity of people irrespective of nationality. As a result, immigrant advocates have been both pilloried as traitors or criminals and praised as ethical visionaries. Based on participant-observation and interviews with members of these three organizations, I argue that although immigrant advocates are comfortable using nation-state-based identities, they do not prioritize them. Rather, they use religious meanings to express the need for a supranational paradigm of value that can guide polities of any scale.
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Geoffroy, William. "Advocacy vs. Objectivity in the Outdoor Press." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292202.

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Bell, Bertha Roslyn. "Client advocacy in nursing: A contemporary perspective." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618496.

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not Winslow's typology of definitions of client advocacy in nursing accurately and comprehensively represented the manner in which registered nurses defined the role. The author also hoped to explore contextual factors influencing the lack of consensus among nurses of the client advocacy role.;A survey questionnaire was developed and submitted to a random sample of nurses registered to practice in the state of Virginia. The sample population was asked for a definition of and a clinical situation describing client advocacy. A Likert scale was used to determine the degree of agreement of the sample population with Winslow's typology as well as clincial practice situations developed by the author.;Survey data revealed Winslow's typology of definitions represent the manner in which a substantial number of respondents defined client advocacy. Demographic and professional data of the sample population was obtained and analyzed. There was no substantial relationship between these variables and the opinions of client advocacy definitions.;The relationship to two factors, the development of the code of ethics and the nurse-physician relationship, were examined. All versions of the code of ethics contain elements of client advocacy behaviors. The lack of consensus among nurses of the client advocate role is related to male-female role conflicts and the desire of the nursing profession to attain full-fledged professional status.;Further investigation is indicated to determine if the current lack of consensus among nurses of the client advocate role, is an indication of the process of role change the profession must experience to realize the acceptance of any one definition of the client advocate role.
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Chambers, Cynthia R. "Advocacy Outreach through East Tennessee State University." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3891.

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Albanesi, Thomas Samuel. "Advocacy: The Ethical Duty of Every Physician." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/598621.

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Urban Bioethics
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The American medical profession has publicly pondered its roles and duties since its inception in the 18th century. Recently, that discussion has included whether or not advocacy by physicians is a responsibility of the profession. The following work is an argument and plan to support the ethical, professional imperative of physician advocacy. The historical underpinnings of the American medical profession suggest a responsibility to patients and interactions with society. In addition, there is a strong bioethical argument in favor of physician advocacy as an essential duty. Although there is a well-recognized set of barriers to physician advocacy, this article details solutions to help implement advocacy as a daily practice in the lives of all physicians. This piece will describe a way forward for physicians to take on their professional responsibility to advocate.
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Jurns, Carolyn Sue. "Promoting Policy Advocacy in Nursing via Education." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3688.

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Nurses have a professional, ethical, and social responsibility to advocate for optimal healthcare and an optimal professional environment. However, nurses often default on that responsibility. Leadership at a national nursing organization's state affiliate (SNO) perceived a need to optimize its members' policy advocacy. To meet that need, the Policy Advocacy Toolkit for Nurses (PATN) was developed for this doctoral project. The evidence-based PATN relied on established theories and frameworks, notably Knowles' adult education theory and Kingdon's multiple streams approach; research specific to this project; evidence from other researchers, healthcare organizations, and government websites; and input from a statistician, nursing education experts, and SNO personnel. The PATN's creation had 2 research questions. The first research question asked what SNO members' motivators and barriers to advocacy were. Chi square tests of survey results addressing this issue found significant relationships between advocacy levels and perceived speaking skills (χ2[4, N = 176] = 30.435, p = .000), understanding of SNO's daily advocacy activities (χ2[4, N = 176] = 17.814, p=.001), and understanding of policy creation (χ2[4, N = 176] = 33.830, p = .000). The second research question asked if the PATN's design was significantly improved after incorporating SNO design-stakeholders' input. A paired sample t test revealed no significant difference (p>.05) in the PATN with the stakeholders' input added. Details for evaluating the PATN's sustained effect on political astuteness, as offered in this doctoral project, were provided to the SNO. The PATN, evidence-based and built on the perceived needs of its intended users, should promote positive social change by promoting nurse advocacy.
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Whelan, James M. "Education and Training For Effective Environmental Advocacy." Thesis, Griffith University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365775.

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Research on environmental advocacy has tended to focus on outcomes and achievements rather than the processes through which these are achieved. In addition, minimal research has attended in detail to the complexity of environmental advocacy, or explored measures to through which to enhance advocates’ prospects of success. The environment movement itself has given scarce attention to promoting the skills, abilities and predispositions that contribute to effective advocacy. Indeed, most environmental non-government organisations (ENGOs) in Australia appear to believe that scientific or expert knowledge will be sufficient to influence environmental decision-makers and consequently provide minimal training or education to enhance advocacy. This thesis is a response to these problems. It seeks to develop an understanding of, and model for, activist education and training in the Australian environment movement. The two main bodies of literature that inform the study are social movement and adult education literature. The former provides the context for the study. Social movement theorists present various explanations of how and why environmental activists work for change. These theorists also discuss the organisational structures and modes of operation typically adopted by activists. The second body of literature is utilised in this thesis to provide a synthesis of relevant educational orientations, traditions and practices. Popular, experiential and adult environmental education offer promising strategies for advocacy organisations that seek to enhance activists’ skills and abilities. The research questions posed in this study lie at the convergence of these two bodies of literature. Two empirical studies were undertaken during this inquiry. The first was conducted with the Queensland Conservation Council, an environmental advocacy organisation where the researcher was employed for five years. The study drew on methods and techniques associated with ethnography and action research to identify, implement and evaluate a range of interventions which aimed to educate and train advocates. Three cycles of inquiry generated useful insights into environmental advocacy and identified useful strategies through which advocacy may be enhanced. The second study, a case study based on interviews and observation, explored the Heart Politics movement. The ethnographic research methods utilised in this case study resulted in a rich description and critical appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of Heart Politics gatherings as activist education. These two studies contributed to the development of a grounded and endogenous theory of education and training for environmental advocacy. This theory is based on a set of observations concerning the provision of activist education: (1) that most activist learning occurs informally and unintentionally through participation in social action such as environmental campaigns; (2) that this learning can be assessed according to a five-category framework and tends to favour specific categories including the development of social action and organisational development skills rather than alternative categories such as political analysis and personal development; (3) that this informal learning can be harnessed and enhanced through strategies which situate learning in the context of action and promote heightened awareness of the learning dimension of social action; and (4) that a key obstacle to education and training in the environment movement is a conspicuous lack of professional development or support for the people involved in facilitating and coordinating activist education activities and programs. These people are often volunteers and infrequently possess qualifications as educators or facilitators but are more likely to be seasoned activists. They tend to work in isolation as activist education activities are sporadic, geographically diffuse and ad hoc. These observations along with other insights acquired through participatory action research and ethnographic inquiry led to a set of conclusions, some of which have already been implemented or initiated during the course of this study. The first conclusion is that strategies to promote the professional development of activist educators may benefit from the development of texts tailored to the tactical orientations and political and other circumstances of Australian environmental advocacy groups. Texts, alone, are considered an inadequate response. The study also concludes that informal networks, formal and informal courses and other strategies to assist collaboration and peer learning among activist educators offer considerable benefits. Other conclusions pertain to the benefits of collaborating with adult educators and tertiary institutions, and professionals, to the relative merits of activist workshops and other forms of delivery, to the opportunities for activist training presented by regular environment movement gatherings and conferences and to the significant merits of promoting and supporting mentorship relationships between novice and experienced activists.
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Australian School of Environmental Studies
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Lennquist, Montan Kristina. "Sjuksköterskan som patientens advokat - En litteraturstudie om "advocacy in nursing"." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25962.

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Syftet med denna studie var att genom analys av tillgänglig litteratur inom området advocacy in nursing klarlägga innebörden av begreppet advocacy sett från sjukvårdens synpunkt, vem/vilka som skall ha funktionen som advocate i sjukvården, hur advocacy i praktiken bäst skall beskrivas inom sjukvården samt hur den som skall ha rollen som advocate bäst skall utbildas och föreberedas för sin uppgift. Som metod användes studium och analys av en selektion av tillgänglig litteratur inom området med speciell inriktning mot den egentliga innebörden av begreppet advocacy, argument för och emot sjuksköterskans funktion i rollen som advocate, hur advocacy bäst skall integreras och tillämpas i vårdprocessen och hur den som har rollen som advocate bäst skall förberedas för den. Resultat av litteraturstudien visade brist på enhetlig definition av begreppet advocacy, vilket skapar svårigheter att analysera och jämföra erfarenheter inom området. Även om motargument beskrevs, talade all erfarenhet inom området i denna studie för att sjuksköterskan är den mest lämpade att ha denna roll. Risken för att sjuksköterskan vid fullgörande av denna uppgift hamnar i en konfliktsituation mot övrig vårdpersonal betonades genomgående i denna litteratur, illustrerande betydelsen av att advocacy utförs som ett teamarbete med stöd och medverkan av all personal även om sjuksköterskan har huvudrollen. Behovet av utbildning för uppgiften framfördes genomgående, men inga konkreta förslag på utformning eller omfattning av sådan utbildning kunde identifieras. Konklusion: Begreppet advocacy in nursing är på väg att bli väl etablerat i vårdprocessen och sjuksköterskan har redan identifierats som den som bör ha denna roll. Fortsatt forskning inom området är angelägen för att ligga till grund både för metodik och utbildning inför uppgiften. Bättre och mer enhetlig definition av begreppet krävs för fortsatt vetenskapligt arbete.
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Neumayr, Michaela, Ulrike Schneider, and Michael Meyer. "Public Funding and Its Impact on Nonprofit Advocacy." SAGE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764013513350.

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This article aims to contribute to the long-standing discussion about nonprofit organizations' (NPOs) dependence on public funding and its consequences on their advocacy role in modern societies. Drawing on resource dependence theory and data from a quantitative survey, the study investigates the impact of public funding and its extent on nonprofit engagement in advocacy. Traditionally, scholars have cautioned that NPOs reliant on public sources will hesitate to pursue political objectives and to engage in advocacy work. Yet, empirical findings are strikingly inconsistent. One of the reasons for these ambiguous findings may be the way advocacy is measured. To address this issue, we apply two different approaches to evaluate NPO engagement. Both sets of findings from our multivariate analyses of Austrian NPOs suggest that public funding does not have a negative impact on advocacy.
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Tsacalos, Ashley. "Effective appellate advocacy : the ideal and the reality : explored through the advocacy of Sir Garfield Barwick in constitutional law cases." Phd thesis, Sydney Law School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9354.

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Camacho, Christina Marie Alarid Leanne Fiftal. "The role of the advocate for victims of domestic violence in municipal court does advocacy make a difference? /." Diss., UMK access, 2006.

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"A thesis in criminal justice and criminology." Typescript. Advisor: Leanne F. Alarid. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Jan. 26, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-97). Online version of the print edition.
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White, Marisa Lynn. "The Process of Becoming an Advocate for the Counseling Profession: A Qualitative Analysis of Counselors’ Development toward Advocacy." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1258153249.

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Luschen, Kristen V. "Empowering prevention? adolescent female sexuality, advocacy and schooling /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Douglas, Philip. "Developing the Environment Agency's capacity for policy advocacy." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2002. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13397/.

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The overall rationale and aim of the project was to strengthen Environment Agency policy advocacy effectiveness. In addition to this overall aim, the project had two more specific aims: to identify key features to be included in any process for generating and embedding in the organisation broad policy advocacy positions relevant to UK and EU level policy development and to provide an assessment of Environment Agency policy advocacy effectiveness - alongside English Nature in comparative perspective - and to thereby identify options to enhance the Agency's contribution to EU and UK public policy development.
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Bui, Long T. "The politics of AIDS advocacy for Asian Americans." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1454978.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
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