How do you Advocate?
Advocacy is giving voice.
It is communicating.
Obviously there are many ways to share your voice.
- Face-to-face communications
- Phone calls
- Writing letters or postcards
- Sending emails
- Social media
All of these are common ways that people share their opinions and passions surrounding issues like homelessness. Each of these formats has strengths and weaknesses, and its important to know which is most effective in different situations.
Its important to realize that you want to have the decision makers get to know your issue and the people impacted by it, and those that care about it. You want them to become your friends and allies. You are educating and empowering them.
The goal of communication...Advocacy... is not only to influence a decision, it is also meant to establish a relationship.
