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Domestic Violence Advocacy
Advocacy, in the form of direct service, is a critical type of intervention to help intimate partner or domestic violence survivors. Little is known the best practices for social workers and other helping professionals to assist survivors of domestic violence who present for services at shelters, …
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Protective Nursing Advocacy Scale
Nursing advocacy for patients is considered to be an important function of nursing practice. The research surrounding nursing advocacy is relatively new, with few psychometric instruments developed to measure nursing advocacy. The purpose of this study was to determine the psychometric properties …
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Motivation to Participate in Health Advocacy and Health Services: An evaluation of Advocacy for Better Health
… motivations for participating in health advocacy initiatives in Uganda. This study sought to uncover why participants choose to engage in health systems advocacy to evaluate the Advocacy for Better Health intervention. A household survey was administered to 946 respondents to capture …
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Participation and Advocacy in Community Media
… in relation to the idea of participation and advocacy. This thesis contests mainstream media studies discourse by asserting that it is in paying attention to the lived experience and the accomplishments of people acting in lifeworlds and intimate social networks, rather than simply looking at …
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Attendance Matters! A Policy Advocacy Document
… <p>This Part III of the dissertation is a Policy Advocacy for absenteeism at the local level. Reflecting on my experience as a student, teacher, and administrator, student attendance is key baseline data to a successful school. After a deep dive of district attendance policies, the recommendation …
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Policy Advocacy: Standards for Professional Learning
<p>This paper advocates for a district level policy the Standards for Professional Learning as a way of defining what high quality professional learning should look like. The Standards for Professional Learning represent a compilation of decades of research on what characterizes effective …
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ACADEMIC ACCELERATION: A POLICY ADVOCACY DOCUMENT
<p>The purpose of this advocacy document, written in 2013, is to illustrate the need for a change in policy for gifted students in a suburban school district. The recommended policy change would allow academic acceleration in the form of whole-grade acceleration and/or subject-area acceleration for …
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The key elements of advocacy marketing
… traditional push-based marketing to trust-based advocacy marketing. This research identifies and summarizes the key elements needed to create customer advocacy. It considers the following research questions: What are the key elements to creating customer advocacy? What means or types are there in …
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Examining the relationship between readiness for advocacy and the attainment of participation and advocacy goals in Project TEAM
… of this study is to understand if readiness for advocacy is associated with attainment of participation and advocacy goals for youth with developmental disabilities transitioning into adulthood. The transtheoretical model is used to conceptualize youth’s readiness to act when new knowledge and …
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Empowering communities through comprehensive community-based energy advocacy : assessing energy programs and advocacy in California and New Mexico
While energy permeates virtually all facets of our lives, from our pocketbooks to our health, issues regarding energy fail to garner widespread attention until price surges or blackouts impede everyday activities. With higher energy burdens and higher incidences of power plants in their …
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Advocacy Under Authoritarianism: Transnational Networks in China
The standard theoretical account of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) is one of principled non-state actors remaking world politics by upsetting conventional notions of power in the international system. Relying on persuasion and framing instead of disruption and protest, these global networks …
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#METOO: NETWORKED CELEBRITY ADVOCACY AS CAPITAL PERFORMANCE
<p>Celebrity advocacy scholars have studied how social movements utilize celebrity appeal to attract media and public attention for decades. Some researchers have found that celebrity advocacy failed to achieve exceptional performance in the legacy media age. Moreover, only a very few top-class …
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Kindergarten for Equity: A Policy Advocacy Statement
… and social emotional capacity. This policy advocacy document supports a statewide mandate for children to attend kindergarten at age five throughout the state of Illinois. With little need for increased resources to accommodate the mandate, the social, moral and ethical benefits of providing …
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Differentiating the Principal Evaluation: Policy Advocacy Document
<p>High-quality school leadership is pertinent to improving school performance and raising student achievement. Research supports that the impact of leadership is most significant in schools with the greatest needs (Clifford & Ross, 2012). Further, research suggests that leadership is the second …
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Policy Advocacy for Letting Schools Be Schools
<p>Ever since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, schools have been in an era of high stakes accountability around test scores, attendance, and climate and culture. This has also ushered in a wave of accountability down to teachers in the form of paperwork, mandates, and a heavy emphasis on …
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Transnational religion in Greek American political advocacy.
… are challenging scholarship on the political advocacy of ethnic groups by examining a broader range of connections that shape immigrant identity and engagement with the political systems of host countries. One of these connections is the role religion has in forming new ethnoreligious …
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Architectural Advocacy: Public Buildings as Normative Communication
… buildings and a theory called architectural advocacy provide broad conceptual guidelines.
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Early Childhood Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Advocacy
… and practical approach to learning about advocacy. This approach could include their coursework, readings, discussion, and presentations by advocates in the field, and experiences with advocacy mentored by their cooperating teachers, supervisors and supervisors and professors. Results from …
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Introducing Self-Advocacy Skills to Transition Age Youth
… that there is a need and a desire for a self-advocacy training from the staff and the clients. After reviewing the literature and analyzing data from the needs assessment tools the project intern developed a self-advocacy training.</p> <p>The project purpose was to design training that will …
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