Resources
- Google:
- 72,000 Web sites for “Advocacy tips” in a tenth of a second
- Not all of the sites will be useful, but many will. (See slides 54-60 for some useful sites.)
- National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse (215-553-4539)
- Public library
Bibliography
- “Systems Advocacy,” National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help
Clearinghouse:
http://www.mhselfhelp.org/techasst/view.php?techasst_id=13 - “Tips for Legislative Advocacy,” Justice for Immigrants:
http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/ParishKit/TipsLegisAdvocacy.pdf - “Systems Advocacy,” Brain Injury Resource Center:
http://www.headinjury.com/advosystem.html - “A Guide to Disability Rights Laws,” U.S. Department of
Justice:
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cguide.htm - “Legislative Advocacy Tips,” Substance
Abuse and Addiction Recovery Alliance of Virginia:
http://www.saara.org/docs/2007/Legislative%20Advocacy%20Tips%202007.doc - “Engaging Supporters as Advocates and Activists Through Grassroots
Organizing,” American Arts Alliance:
http://www.americanartsalliance.org/americanartsalliance/grassroots_organizing_tips.html - Administration on Aging Media Advocacy Toolkit:
http://www.aoa.gov/press/Media_Advocacy/Media_Advocacy.asp - National Peace Corps Association Advocacy Manual:
http://www.rpcv.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=552 - “An Activists’ (sic) Strategy for Effective Online Networking,” One
Northwest:
http://www.onenw.org/toolkit/activists-strategy - “Rights and Protection and Advocacy,” Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration:
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/P&A/ - “Advocacy Tools and Guidelines,” CARE:
http://www.care.org/getinvolved/advocacy/tools.asp - “Ten Reasons to Lobby for Your Cause,” Independent
Sector:
http://www.independentsector.org/Nonprofit_Information_Center/TenReasonstoLobby.pdf - “Advocacy Tools,” New
York Library Association:
http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=514
