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Working Collaboratively with Social Service Systems

Working Collaboratively with Social Service Systems. In what capacity do you work with social service systems?. What has been your experience so far?. Advocacy Skills. 1. If the client is comfortable, the client is the best advocate for themselves.

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Working Collaboratively with Social Service Systems

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  1. Working Collaboratively with Social Service Systems

  2. In what capacity do you work with social service systems?

  3. What has been your experience so far?

  4. Advocacy Skills • 1. If the client is comfortable, the client is the best advocate for themselves.

  5. 2. We refer people to people, not people to services or people to agencies. Advocacy Skills

  6. 3. Do your homework. Awareness of rights and responsibilities Knowing where to go for help Advocacy Skills

  7. 4. Be Assertive, not Aggressive Use your voice, but use it correctly be clear about the client’s needs and considerations, even to yourself encourage clients to use the “I” statement, and when working with clients, present a united front don’t ask if the client can....state what the client needs Advocacy Skills

  8. Advocacy Skills • 5. Follow Through • hold up your end of any agreement • know your recourse – Documentation!!! • collapse your timelines by being around people with the same goal • only agree to what you can produce

  9. Advocacy Skills • 6. Effective Negotiation • be flexible • be open to other ideas • keep the end goal in mind • make clear choices and decisions – know that when you say yes to something, what are you saying no to and vice versa

  10. Important Websites • ipac.aclink.org • Once this page has loaded, click on “Clubs and Organizations” • Keyword search “domestic violence,” “anger management,” and “sexual assault”

  11. Important Websites • www.michie.com/nj/ • Find the regulation that is NJAC 10:122: 8-6 • Find the regulation that is NJAC 10:126:6-11 • Find the regulation that is NJAC 10A:31-13.10 • Find the regulation that is NJAC 10:130-2.10 • Find the regulation that is NJAC 10:90-20.3 • Find the regulation that is NJAC 10:90-6.7

  12. Thank You. Erin O’Hanlon, Director of Community Initiatives Atlantic County Women’s Center PO Box 311, Northfield, NJ 08225 (609) 601-9925, ext. 201 erin.ohanlon@acwc.org

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