About Self-Advocacy
Self-Advocacy...What is it?
A Civil Rights Movement
Self-Advocacy is a civil rights movement for every person to have control over one's life so people with disabilities are treated the same as everyone else.
Beliefs and Values
Self-Advocacy is:
- Being a person first.
- Being able to make our own decisions.
- Believing in my value as a person.
- Having other people believe in you as a person.
What would you do as a Self-Advocate?
- Know your rights .
- Speak up for yourself.
- Express your feelings.
- Solve problems, get things done.
- Make choices and make your own decisions.
- Decide how support is given.
- Have influence over your own life.
- Help each other to express your feelings and thoughts.
- Take control over your life.
- Take part in things that effect your own life.
- Be allowed to make your own mistakes.
- Form groups.
What do Groups do?
- Help people get support from each other.
- Bring people together to share ideas and gain strength from each other.
- Learn from friends and support each other.
- Help people be listened to.
- Make it easier to make changes .
- Influence decisions that effect peoplešs lives.
- Meet, have fun and make friends.
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