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Steps to Advocacy within Systems

Steps to Advocacy within Systems. Breaking it Down. Advocacy and Systems. Individual advocacy = Establishing your advocacy relationship with the survivor. Advocacy within systems = Working one on one with survivors as they navigate their way through various systems.

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Steps to Advocacy within Systems

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  1. Steps toAdvocacy within Systems Breaking it Down

  2. Advocacy and Systems • Individual advocacy = Establishing your advocacy relationship with the survivor. • Advocacy within systems = Working one on one with survivors as they navigate their way through various systems. • Systems advocacy = class action advocacy to improve how a system responds to all DV victims (e.g. work with CCRs).

  3. What do we mean by “system”? • Makes decisions and controls resources • Operates within the parameters of specific rules and procedures, written and unwritten • May have several loosely connected parts • Is run by people who are held responsible for following those rules

  4. What do we mean by “system”? • May or may not be organized in ways that meet the needs of survivors • Barriers in the system are not usually created by, or the fault of, individuals who work within the system : “It’s a glitch hunt — not a witch hunt.”

  5. Systems… Domestic Violence Program Law Enforcement Rachel Children: Portia & Daryl Calvin Child Protection Family Court Welfare ?

  6. Steps… • Understand how the system works

  7. Steps… • Understand how the system works • Figure out with the survivor what she wants from the system

  8. Steps… • Understand how the system works • Figure out with the survivor what she wants from the system • Create a strategy with her for working within the system

  9. Steps… • Understand how the system works • Figure out with the survivor what she wants from the system • Create a strategy with her for working within the system • Implement her strategy

  10. Steps… • Understand how the system works • Figure out with the survivor what she wants from the system • Create a strategy with her for working within the system • Implement her strategy • Assess her experience and plan the next move

  11. DV/SA Program • Understand how the system works • Figure out with the survivor what she wants from the system • Create a strategy with her for working within the system • Implement her strategy • Assess her experience and plan the next move

  12. Housing System

  13. Child Protective Services

  14. Resources • Your co-workers at your agency • Your local Coordinated Community Response Team • WCADV

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