In our daily lives and work, we all use advocacy skills, often without realising it. Utilising advocacy skills in practice can help with meaningful engagement, enabling the children, young people and adults we are supporting (our advocacy partners) to find and amplify their voices.
This course is recommended for frontline practitioners in any care-, health- or education-based setting; parents and parent-practitioners; and young people, all of whom use advocacy skills daily.
Advocacy Engagement Skills explained:
Applying advocacy engagement skills enables frontline practitioners, parents and young people to understand how to promote the views, wishes and feelings of our advocacy partners more effectively, empowering them towards self-advocacy. This training explores how to develop effective advocacy engagement techniques, gain confidence navigating complex systems and make informed rights-based decisions.
Course content
Upon completion of this training, learners will:
- develop a clear understanding of advocacy.
- 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 engagement skills.
- identify when it’s appropriate to transition into signposting to other specialist services or support.
This Advocacy 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.
You can find all available training dates below - new dates are added regularly so keep an eye on this page for any updates if the dates below don't work for you. If you're looking to discuss bespoke training dates, please email [email protected] and our team will be happy to help.
