Advocacy definition

Advocacy means acting in support or a cause or proposal.

Advocacy means the assistance provided which supports, supplements, intervenes and/or links the client and their dependents with the appropriate service components to encourage self-determination, autonomy, physical and emotional safety, and to offer information that will support independence. This can be viewed as a combination of active listening and facilitating personal problem solving along with researching options of action, safety planning, community outreach and education; it may include medical, dental, financial, employment, legal and housing assistance.

Advocacy means advocacy on behalf of an individual or family, and not on behalf of a cause or a group of people.

Examples of Advocacy in a sentence

• Advocacy When Council advocates on its own behalf or on behalf ofits community to another level of government / body/agency.

• First, while there are industry specific size standards for small businesses that are used in the regulatory flexibility analysis, according to data from the SBA’s Office of Advocacy, in general a small business is an independent business having fewer than 500 employees.

• In the event the Company determines that a claim, benefit, Treatment, or diagnosis meets the Company’s Patient Advocacy program guidelines, the Company will notify the Insured Person as soon as reasonably practicable, and a Patient Advocate will be assigned to the Insured Person.

• In a SNUR that published in the Federal Register of June 2, 1997 (62 FR 29684) (FRL–5597–1), the Agency presented its general determination that final SNURs are not expected to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, which was provided to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration.

• The Regulatory Secretariat Division has submitted a copy of the FRFA to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration.

More Definitions of Advocacy

Advocacy means advocacy on behalf of a specific client for the purpose of accessing needed services;

Advocacy means action to assist or represent a person or group of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses in securing their rights, obtaining needed services, investigating complaints, and removing barriers to identified needs.

Advocacy means all of the following:

Advocacy means those activities undertaken on behalf of persons who are receiving or have received mental health services to protect their rights or to secure or upgrade treatment or other services to which they are entitled.

Advocacy means the exercise of a right of audience before a court, tribunal or other person;

Advocacy means collaboratively working with, and in support of, a survivor that keeps with a survivor-centered, empowerment-based, and self-determined approach. Both in person or phone advocacy and support are provided by the program’s qualified staff and volunteers to domestic violence clients.

Advocacy means pleading an individual's cause or speaking or writing in support of an individual that may include representation before public or private entities on the behalf of one's self, another individual or a group of individuals.