lesson 8


 

Activity 1:  Advocating for community health promotion needs

Teams work together to decide how to advocate for community health promotion based on the communities they selected for their projects.  Focus on the community and needs identified in the assessment.  Who are the stakeholders?  How does the advocate focus on the needs while including the stakeholders?

Activity 2: Advocacy Plan

Use the 10 step Advocacy Framework in the Advocacy guide to develop a plan for a healthcare issue:

  1. Taking action
  2. Selecting your issue
  3. Understanding your political context
  4. Building your evidence base
  5. Engaging others;
  6. Elaborating strategic plans
  7. Communicating messages and implementing plans
  8. Seizing opportunities
  9. Being accountable
  10. Catalysing health development

Activity 3: Project Assignment:   Time to put it all together

By now you should have compiled much of the completed Project.  This week you will work on completing the project.