M5 Web Activity- Encouraging Youth Self-Advocacy
Instructions
Encouraging Youth Self-Advocacy
Until this point, we have only discussed advocacy in terms of activities that adults can do for or on behalf of youth. But young people can also become advocates for themselves and for the larger issues that affect them. Explore the online resources below and then discuss what you have learn https:
www.parentcenterhub.org/priority-selfadvocacy/ed about youths as advocates and how adults can encourage youths to become advocates themselves.
· Freechild Institute - Youth as Advocates
· Annie E. Casey Foundation - To Be Effective Advocates, Youth Need Support. https:
www.aecf.org
log/to-be-effective-advocates-young-people-need-support
· Art as an Advocacy Tool for Youth to Transform the K-12 Education. https:
www.newprofit.org/go/art-as-an-advocacy-tool-for-youth-to-transform-the-k-12-education
· Best Practices in Self-Advocacy Skill Building. https:
www.parentcenterhub.org/priority-selfadvocacy
When submitting your assignment, be sure to include:
· Overall purpose of the resources
· Summary of the article - main theme and major points
· What you learned
· Your Reaction to the resource - what questions the resource prompted you to have, what was most interesting or surprising and why, etc.
· How you would use this information to advocate on behalf of at-risk youth.
Please answer all bullets and I provide you with the websites. Also, for the first website just click You as Advocates it will open a new
owser with the article. All of them if you click on them will open to a new
owser with the information. Please do a reference sheet APA style.