In our daily lives and work, we all use advocacy skills, often without realising it. Using advocacy skills in practice can help with meaningful engagement, enabling children, young people and adults we are working alongside to find and amplify their voices.
This course is recommended for frontline staff such as those in education, youth work, pastoral support, and healthcare who use advocacy skills during their everyday roles.
Advocacy-in-role explained:
Applying advocacy engagement skills enables education, pastoral, health and youthwork professionals to understand how to promote views, wishes and feelings more effectively, empowering individuals towards self-advocacy. This training explores how to develop effective advocacy engagement techniques, gain confidence navigating complex systems and make more informed rights-based decisions.
Course content
Upon completion of this training, learners will:
- develop a clear understanding of advocacy-in-role
- recognise how to channel your skills to engage and empower individual voices towards self-advocacy and increased understanding of their rights
- explore the balance between wishes, feelings, and best interests in your day-to-day practice
- reflect when, where, and how you can effectively use your enhanced advocacy-in-role skills
- identify when it’s appropriate to transition into signposting to other specialist services or support.
This Advocacy-in-Role Engagement Skills training will be delivered via a live, interactive webinar. The training session will be delivered by a member of our highly experienced training team.
NYAS is a leading, national rights-based charity who deliver a range of services, including appropriate adults and age assessments, to children across England and Wales. We have practical experience within this training area, and your learning will be supported by our expert guidance and a supporting handbook.
Please contact us to express interest or to discuss bespoke training dates: [email protected]
