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Support and Facilitate Self-Advocacy

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15 hours
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Course Access
12 Months

Self-advocacy is crucial in many aspects of life, from health care to social welfare. If individuals do not self-advocate, negative experiences or poor health outcomes may result. This course is ideal for social workers, counsellors, community workers, mental health workers and anyone needing to assist people to identify their own needs and rights.

Support and Facilitate Self-Advocacy is an online professional development course that will provide the knowledge you need to help others develop self-advocacy skills.

In this professional development course, you learn about group advocacy, mental health advocacy, civil and consumer rights, legal and peer support, and the SODAS five-step decision-making process.

You will also learn how to document and proofread important documents, understand the legal system, deal with bureaucracy and peak industry bodies and develop a person’s self-advocacy strategy and arguments.

On completion of this course, you will feel confident to support a person to advocate for their rights to enhance health care, employment and life outcomes.

Printed learning materials are available for purchase for this course and can be ordered during enrolment.  

Course Structure
Support and Facilitate Self-Advocacy

Unit 1- Promote and facilitate self advocacy

  • Strategic questioning to clarify advocacy issues
  • Advocacy and mental health
  • Strategic questioning to clarify advocacy issues
  • Focus and observation questions
  • Feelings and visioning questions
  • Change and alternative questions
  • Personal inventory and support questions
  • Personal action questions
  • Providing information on self advocacy
  • Group advocacy
  • Assisting people to identify their own needs and rights
    • Basic human rights
    • Freedom of speech
    • Choice of where to live
    • Protection from abuse or neglect
    • Culture religion and language
  • Civil rights movement
  • The rights of consumers and carers
  • Australian privacy principles
  • Personal disclosure
  • Details to be recorded for informed consent
  • Providing information on rights
  • System advocacy
  • Individual advocacy
  • Legal and peer advocacy
  • SODAS – Five step decision-making process
  • Documenting options
  • Proofreading documents
  • Advocacy planning
  • Advocacy issues and choices
  • Community attitudes and stigma
  • Potential barriers and relevant strategies
  • Lack of credibility
  • The legal system
  • Linguistic difference
  • Literacy issues
  • Resistance to change
  • Dealing with bureaucracy
  • Intimidation and fear
  • Lack of self-confidence and self-esteem
  • Potential barriers and relevant strategies
  • Fear of negative outcomes
  • Being seen as an aggressive troublemaker
  • Developing a person’s self-advocacy strategy and arguments
  • Contacting key people for support
  • Consider the individual’s skills and strengths
  • Provide opportunities for practising self-advocacy
  • Roleplays
  • Practicing written communications
  • Identifying and utilising self-advocacy/resources
  • Identifying peak industry bodies
  • Support individuals to document circumstances and events
  • Follow-up and reflecting
  • Identifying further strategies
  • Provide additional advocacy support
  • Assertive communication skills
  • Tactics and strategies
  • Develop promotional materials
  • Planning a successful promotion
  • Dignity of risk
  • Person as their own expert
  • Raising awareness about barriers
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Estimated Duration
15 hours
Course Delivery and Start
Start anytime, self-paced and 100% online
Assessment

Assessment will be comprised of written exercises, including short-answer questions, reflective tasks, short reports and/or projects. There are no examinations or due dates for assessment. As a result, you can complete training in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.

Career Outcomes

Professional Development for:-

  • Social workers
  • Counsellors
  • Community workers
  • Mental health workers
This course was great. I have learned so much and have already used my learnings to help others. I like the idea of being online as this fits in with my workload.
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Bonbeach, VIC
Support and Facilitate Self-Advocacy
April 2024
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A Certificate of Attainment and Statement of Results will be issued upon successful completion of this course.

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There are no course or subject pre-requisites for entry into our programs. However, our professional development programs are generally intended for people over the age of 18 with a competent level of English. For those under 18, please complete the Parent/Guardian Consent Form before enrolling.

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