Overview: This assignment, Organizational Review, is not in your 3rd textbook, but relates to Chapter 10: Advocacy. For this assignment, students will conduct an organizational review. Students will identify an agency or facility that includes advocacy in its mandate (e.g., a program for battered women, a hospital with patient advocates, a legal community clinic, a public interest advocacy group, etc.) and ask a reliable contact the following questions (use organization’s webpages for additional/ background information. You may either visit the agency or call the agency.
Instructions: Assignment is 100 points and all students will write at least 6 pages, not including cover and reference pages. Please use clear section headings in your report to organize the following information about the organization. This assignment should be balanced with information in all sections. When completing this Assignment, please specifically address the sub-questions for each of the main sections. Students can include sub-headings, under the major headings, to further organize their content. Make it easy to read your paper and find content; this is good writing organization. Be insightful and descriptive in your reporting and integrate the reading on Restorative Justice and Advocacy. In the last section, reflect on your overall learning in this class.
Organization’s Background, Mission
State mission, program objectives, vision, etc.
Services, Role of Professionals
What are the roles of the professionals who work there?
What types of advocacy are they involved in?
Type of Advocacy, Model/Theory
What models or theories of advocacy does the agency use? Please review/read link : Advocacy: Models and effectiveness (Links to an external site.) before answering this question or to help you effectively answer this question.
Skills ,Strategies & Evaluation
How does the helping professional know if he/she has been successful as an advocate?
What types of evaluation, if any, does the agency use to determine the effectiveness of the advocacy services?
Program Strength/Weakness & Ethical Issues
What are the strengths of the program? What are some recommended changes?
What are the most difficult ethical issues you have had to deal with in your advocacy work
Conclusion/Reflections
What did you learn from this experience?
