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- Title: Effective Advocacy for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: How High the Cost?
- Author : Education & Treatment of Children
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 235 KB
Description
During the colonial and early national period, there was no organized system of advocacy for children. This changed with the advent of the progressive education system and by the 1900s a strong societal sense existed regarding the necessity to attend to the welfare of children. During this time, the National Congress of Mothers, later known as the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, lead by Cora Bussey Hillis mobilized thousands of women in the name of child-saving activism. The Congress mothers justified their activism toward school improvement through their stated obligation to care for all of society's children. These actions continued throughout the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries and were the impetus for a larger movement around the country to identify the needs of children and protect their interests. Advocacy for children/youth can take many forms, including self-advocacy, peer advocacy, family advocacy, group advocacy and professional advocacy. Fielder (2000) examined the various definitions and concluded that advocacy involves 4 essential characteristics: (1) advocates maintain their loyalty to the individuals they serve despite potential conflict; (2) advocates seek to change the status quo; (3) advocates represent individuals and work collaboratively with others; and (4) advocates endeavor to correct and/or improve identified problematic areas.
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