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Who is the Advocate?

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Just leaving aside our discussion of Principles for a moment (we’ll be coming back to them), we have Bob Lee back with his delightfully clear and straight forward style discussing Who is the Advocate? Where do you find these people? This is a question often asked of Citizen Advocacy Coordinators who often just don’t know where …read more

The Next Principle of Citizen Advocacy

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Mitchel Peters has written this piece for us concerning the next Principle of Citizen Advocacy:Here’s a proverb that you’ll be familiar with: “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” That proverb applies to the first principle of Citizen Advocacy, Advocate Independence, discussed in a previous post. But it’s also applicable to one aspect of …read more

Advocate Independence and Loyalty to the Protege

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Effective advocacy is informed by a set of principles. Citizen Advocacy is no different. As we discussed in the 1st June post, fundamentally, advocates need to be independent. This is especially true when a protégé’s life is surrounded by formal paid service requiring an advocate to see themselves as completely independent of those structures.They will …read more

The Liberation Work of Citizen Advocacy

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The late Dr Wolf Wolfensberger, the original designer of the Citizen Advocacy model, conducted workshops on many topics. One that comes to mind seems to have even greater relevance today than when I first attended it in 1991. It was called The Liberation workshop and addressed not just the wounds of devalued (which we address …read more

What is the role of the Citizen Advocacy Trust?

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The Citizen Advocacy Trust of Australia exists to support, promote and safeguard the existence, independence and quality of Citizen Advocacy Programs throughout Australia.  It seeks to do this by raising money for the distribution of grants to eligible Citizen Advocacy Programs (in Australia), to support the development of new Citizen Advocacy Programs and for Citizen Advocacy …read more