Presenters
Joseph Rogers
Annette Williams
Systems Advocacy: What It Is and How to Do It
In this presentation, an internationally known mental health advocate and community organizer discusses grassroots organizing tactics and provides information about goal-setting, creating an advocacy plan, negotiation skills, and strategy development, including "do’s and don’ts." The presentation also offers nuts-and-bolts information about effective advocacy letter-writing, phone calls to policy makers and their staffs, and how to handle face-to-face meetings. Because the basis of systems advocacy is self-advocacy, a co-presenter who has been trained in self-advocacy skills offers information about how she has put these skills into practice in her own work and life.
