4. Advocacy in Action
This activity aims to explore how to bring advocacy skills to the community through advocacy and leadership.
Discuss
Advocacy can be for making positive change for yourself. It can also be to make positive change for others or your community. A way to do this can be to give time, effort, or resources to help others. This is known as philanthropy. You do not have to be rich or have special skills to be a philanthropist. It’s about caring and helping others.
Reflect
When you advocate, you use your voice to influence or get people to action. Think of something you care about in your school or community. How can you help? How can you get involved? Consider these questions for planning an activity. If student’s need support, these Volunteer Scenario Cards can help provide some examples for the group.
- What is the issue?
- Who do you need to talk to?
- How are you going to raise awareness or communicate?
- How to share updates or progress?
Interactive Opportunity
Here are some options to help students complete this activity. Students can make posters for the cause they are trying to support. If students have access to technology, they can make a PowerPoint or flyer. Students can also use paper, pencils, markers, etc. to draw their own posters.
- Instructor Assisted: Instructors can use the scenario cards to pick an option. Share the scenario with the students and begin discussion.
- Guided Activity: Instructors can share different scenarios with students and have them pick a scenario they want to discuss. Students can work together in small groups.
- Independent Activity: Students can select a scenario or pick something important to them. They can share how they would plan their advocacy using one of the interactive options.
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