The Citizen Advocacy Model is a short hand term that captures the essential features of an office using the Principles of Citizen Advocacy (see below) and utilising the guidance offered by The Key Office Activities to make many good matches. The Principles and Key Activities have been designed as a result of many years of practice and refinement of what increases the chances that the matching effort engaged in by the Citizen Advocacy program is likely to be successful.The Citizen Advocacy Trust will only be giving funds to programs committed to striving to learn about and implement the Citizen Advocacy Model.
The reason for this is that in all cases where the Citizen Advocacy Model has been rejected or failed to be implemented correctly, matches become impossible to make or those made, failed in a very short period of time. Such events leave protégés disappointed and further wounded by the passage of people entering and then abandoning them. Citizen advocacy is to be a means of meeting important needs, not creating them.
- Advocate Independence
- Loyalty to Protégé
- Program Independence
- Clarity of Staff Function
- Balanced Orientation to Protégé Needs
- Diversity of Needs & Roles
- Avoid Social Over protection
- Positive Imagery
Key Office Activities
- Vision & Creativity of Protégé Recruitment
- Advocate Recruitment
- Advocate Orientation
- Advocate-Protégé Matching
- Follow-up and Support to Relationships
- Ongoing Training
- Emphasis on Advocate Associates
Related Activities:
- Balance of Key Activities
- Encouragement of Advocate Involvement with Voluntary Associations
