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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes
2. Assist individuals or groups to identify their issues, rights and preferred options
   • Apply strategic questioning to clarify advocacy issues
   • Review and provide information on self advocacy in relation to individual or group issues
   • Assist individual or group to identify their own needs and rights and to determine if their rights are being infringed or not being met
   • Work with individuals or groups to evaluate and negotiate advocacy options
   • Document advocacy options according to organisation policy and procedures
3. Enable individuals to gain self-advocacy skills
   • Build a shared understanding about advocacy issues and choices available
   • Identify potential barriers and relevant strategies to overcome them
   • Collaboratively develop an individual’s self-advocacy strategy and arguments
   • Provide opportunities for practicing self-advocacy
   • Identify and utilise self-advocacy resources
   • Support individuals to document the circumstances and events relevant to the advocacy situation
4. Follow up and support individuals after self-advocacy
   • Follow up and reflect with the individual the self-advocacy process and outcomes
   • Identify further strategies and next steps according to individual’s needs
   • Provide additional advocacy support to individuals, when needed, to further enhance their self-advocacy efforts
5. Promote self-advocacy
   • Model aspects of self-advocacy through assertive communication skills
   • Identify and use opportunities to promote the right of individuals to self-advocate
   • Encourage a culture of self-advocacy and dignity of risk
   • Develop promotional material about self-advocacy
   • Raise awareness about barriers to self-advocacy