HSRS - 201 Advocacy Skills for Peer Support Specialists 3

Individual and collective advocacy skills are integral to “helping professions” as they work to improve lives, communities, systems. This course supplements peer support core courses by lectures, readings, research, and applied knowledge and skills through an experiential practicum. Students identify issues and learn benefits of group advocacy campaigns. Skill is developed in needs analysis; communication methods; person-centered communication; research; writing effective concern statements; identifying and targeting key decision makers to receive concern statements; negotiation and mediation.

Pre-requisite(s):
HSRS 107 (C or better) and HSRS 221 (C or better)