Saturday, June 30, 2012
Advocacy Overview
"The goal of early childhood advocacy is to improve the lives of children and families." (http://www.ounceofprevention.org/advocacy/pdfs/t-intro.pdf) This is the main purpose that early childhood professionals need to keep in mind when deciding where and when to fight for changes. This must come from ideas and issues that we believe in passionately in order for our fight to be justified. We must also continually reasearch and learn in order to stay abreast of current issues and trends. Finally, in order to become effective advocaters we must be willing to take some risks and stay the course when we find a cause that we want to affect.
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Patricia,
ReplyDeleteI think that is the hardest step in advocacy work, staying the course through the good and bad. Most times attitudes sway and change over what is important. When they start doing that we must remain awake and aware of just how much we have been taken off course and how much we are willing to continue the fight.
Tina
Patricia,
ReplyDeleteWe must be the Piper, like Peter Piper and the mice. It is just the policymakers we are trying to get to follow our reasoning and research.