Elected representatives from the three regional committees East, Northwest and South are also supported to meet the National Senior Leadership Team and the Board of Management at least once a year in Dublin. This often requires an overnight stay for those travelling in and we support people to prepare for the day and attend the meeting with them. We get great feedback from those attending both committee members and staff.
We want people in the services to be able to self-advocate and advocate for each other wherever possible. We do this by supporting the internal structures described above and by providing training to Local and Regional Advocacy Committees. In training sessions we look at advocacy from a rights-based perspective, we also look at advocacy in action. This often encourages a cultural shift within services, where advocacy principles become embedded.
We also support individual advocacy cases: people in services and their families. We receive referrals by phone, email or face-to-face. This work is wide-ranging but often includes support during a transition to new housing, referrals to other support agencies such as MABS , conflict resolution, family liaison or accessing social welfare payments. As a large disability organisation, many external organisations ask for the opinions of people within the services by way of a public consultation or when Rehab Group is developing an internal strategy.
Advocacy Officers consult with those that may be affected. Internally, the officer collaborates with finance and procurement to implement advocacy initiatives. An advocacy officer is accountable to the program director, and they work together to ensure that the initiatives they implement have positive and measurable outcomes. Although a shared passion and vision is the fundamental requirement for an advocacy officer to work in a specific organization, there are other necessary attributes for this kind of work.
Advocacy officers need training and experience so that they have knowledge of the issues they represent in the course of their work. They must possess personal attributes such as integrity, focus, diligence and ability to communicate effectively and persuade others towards their point of view. Joseph Petrick has been a writer and editor since He writes career, business and education articles. His work has appeared in several online publications including Career Today.
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