Thank you note

Dear Classmates,

Thank you for the opportunity to share my thoughts and feeling with you dear classmates. I know that your time is valuable, and I appreciate your willingness to assist me and respond to my postings.

Your feedback regarding our online blogs was particularly insightful. I agree with most of your suggestion on how make my plan better and ideas on how to become a better advocate. I hope that we will one day meet in person. Feel free to contact me on Facebook.

Thank you again for your valuable input. Your words of encouragement have done much to calm my nerves about my presentation. Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time if you need someone to discuss any professional matters with. I appreciate your help and your ideas. Good luck all my classmates in your careers and in your lives.

Sincerely,

Your Classmate  Charla

Enlisting and Providing Support

      I have been feeling lost this term as far as writing an Advocacy Plan goes. I am doing my best but I still feel like I do not have a clear idea or an example of what a good Advocacy Plan looks like. I have also been missing points for APA style. I feel a good use of my time would be to review APA style. Do any classmates have a good understanding of how to write a well written Advocacy Plan? If someone has a good resource for writing a plan I would appreciate if they will share the information.  One resource I found helpful was the textbook for the class. The textbook has a lot of good information about what it means to be a good advocate.

My quote

I forgot to post my quote.

"Learning never exhausts the mind." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Advocacy Journey

I am inspired and excited about my advocacy plan because I want children to be safe at home. A child’s home should be a safe zone free of abuse. A feel a child that grows up in an abuse free household will be a healthier adult. Abuse effect a person on every level. Abuse affects your health mentally, emotionally, and physically.

The challenges and anxieties I feel center around the level of knowledge I have. I wonder do not know enough about abuse a neglect to advocate for prevention services. I feel my fear can be overcome with some additional study and training. I have signed up for parent advocacy empowerment class. The class is ten weeks and by the end of the class I should be a better advocate. Once I will the skills from that class plus what I have learned in this class I should be ready. I feel ok presenting my Advocacy Action Plan, but implementing it is ten times harder to do.

I feel the way to encourage others to advocate is by telling them to find something they truly believe in or something that has touched them personally. We all have a voice and everyone can help someone else. I think it is important to know your voice is valuable and powerful.

Welcome back all. It is almost over.