Advocacy

questions for consideration and read many of the responses by other students (except those that were posted later on a Wednesday). I especially enjoyed Fiona Isdale’s reflections and her experience working within the disability sector, Kendall Silsbury’s advocacy for Indigenous Australians and Andrew Wooden’s analytical thoughts and insights. When summarising documents I made sure that I wrote using my own words and reflected…

It is very hard to imagine a world where police are harassing and arresting the LGBTQ community just for gathering together in public or simply expressing themselves. This community had their jobs, families, and lives threatened just for being who they are. Unfortunately, this is what life was like before they started to fight back against the oppression. The younger generations have grown up in a society, for the most part, of love, acceptance, and protection for these people. This essay will…

organization, People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, commonly known as PETA never fails to demonstrate unusual techniques in their advertising campaigns. Trying to promote the alternative vegan lifestyle, PETA often derails from their animal rights advocacy and uses violent sexists ad’s in their campaigns. In their late 2000’s “go veg” campaign, an advertisement…

The discourse on gendered in International Relations (IR) is heavily focussed on women and children. However, this skewed focus of study in IR facilitates a dangerous patriarchal system that exploits men who do not fall into the hegemonic category of masculinity as well as it perpetuates gendered understandings of masculinity as powerful, violent, and strong. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a balance in the study of gender and IR in order to allow women and femininity a proper voice in IR…

An ideal social service agency provides services with the intent to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of the community. Its clientele are at the fore front for services and advocacy to help bring closure during their times of crisis’s. A social worker of a social service agency strives to uphold ethical standards as set by the National Association of Social Worker (1999). Such ethical standards include service, social justice, dignity/worth of person, importance of human…

changing nature of society’s needs. Nurses provide as well as encourage quality health care practice and apply current evidence to health and restructure health systems to meet the needs of society. The American Nurses Association (ANA) addresses advocacy and its mission is to promote health and improve well-being for all. Nurses give voice to individuals, communities, and populations to foster quality care. As stated in the Nursing Social Policy Statement registered nurses focus their…

The article “On becoming a social justice practitioner”, discussed the importance of social justice and how it should be a core value all social workers apply in their professional career. Even with social justice being one of the core values of the NASW Code of Ethics, many social workers are not incorporating it into their professional careers. According to Birkenmaier, this is due to many social workers having lack of knowledge in and training in incorporating social change into practice or…

undertaken by Buddhist temples or VBS. The link between the two units is shown by the four main functions: (1) intake, referral, coordinate services; (2) direct services; (3) training, education, information; and (4) community development, policy advocacy (H.Nguyen, 2013). Currently, each unit has carried out these functions independently (MOLISA, 2013; H.Nguyen, 2013). In order to improve the efficacy and effectiveness of social service delivery, we suggest in the model a mutual, cooperative…

Both W.E.B. Du Bois and Ralph Ellison used their influence as authors to write about and discuss African Americans’ struggle for civil rights in the United States. These authors were by no means the first authors to discuss the issue, and were heavily influenced by the writings and speeches of Booker T. Washington, especially his address at the Atlanta Exposition, and his book, Up From Slavery. This influence does not imply similarity, however, as the ways in which Washington advocates for…

National LGBTI Health Alliance which forms part of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Movement. The National LGBTI Health Alliance aims to “provide a national focus to improve health outcomes for LGBTI people through policy, advocacy, representation, research evidence, and capacity building” (National LGBTI Health Alliance 2014). They are a group focused on providing health-related services to those within the LGBTI community [which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual,…