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Independent Advocacy
Doing what comes naturally: Citizen Advocacy as a culturally typical repsonse
by Mitchel Peters
part of a series of articles on the Citizen Advocacy Network site
Mitchel Peters starts this article with a quote from Ian Parsons: "Advocacy
is essentially the very ordinary process of standing up for the rights of people
who are being treated unfairly. Ordinary people do it in all walks
of life, quite often without giving the matter a second thought."
Assumptions underlying citizen advocacy
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a brief outline of some of the most important concepts and assumptions underlying citizen advocacy."
by Wolf Wolfensburger
This is described as "an edited and expanded transcript of a presentation first given at a Citizen Advocacy workshop in Adelaide, Australia, in September 1992"
Principles and standards in Independent Advocacy organisations and groups
by Advocacy 2000
on the Advocacy 2000 web site
A detailed document describing principles and standards for Independent
Advocacy organisations and groups to aim for. Advocacy 2000, which was managed by a consortium of advocacy organiations,
wrote this after extensive consultation with Scottish Independent Advocacy
organisations.
The Gift
by Tom Kohler
on the SHS site
This is a powerful story by Tom Kohler - on a video taken at an SHS conference.
The video requires flash player and broadband, but a transcript of the
speech is available.
Good places to look for more
The disability page of this site.
The normalisation/SRV page of this site.
The service quality page of this site.