FREE! Advocacy Skills Workshop!

Advocacy Skills Workshop
Health Care Consumers Association is offering a FREE workshop

Are you successfully promoting your issue?
Are you getting the results you want from your Advocacy?
Do you need to update your Advocacy and Lobbying strategies?

You will hear from people and organisations that have successfully
advocated and will tell the story of their strategies.

By the end of the workshop participants will feel confident they can

* Develop case studies to use as an advocacy tool
* Develop your own Advocacy Action Plan
* Use effective advocacy techniques
* Use effective communication strategies.
* Feel more confident in advocating for yourself or on behalf of
a group

There will be a brief demonstration of using new media such on line
petitions, web pages and blogs to promote an issue or keep in touch with
members and supporters

May 12th 10am to 3pm
MacKillop House Conference Centre
50 Archibald St Lyneham

For further information and to be able to attend you must register by
contacting

HCCA 62307800 or sandraavila@hcca.org.au<mailto:sandraavila@hcca.org.au>

Light Lunch & Morning tea provided.
Please tell us about any food issues we need to cater for.
Transport assistance may be available. Ask for information when you
register.

This workshop will include



1. Strategies for putting together and presenting your issue.


2. Understanding the reality of advocacy and setting achievable goals



3. Collecting information to support your issue using basic do it
yourself social research.


4. Finding support, identifying allies and creating alliances.



5. Identifying existing resources such as the Charter of Health Care
Rights, Human Rights framework & Close the Gap to support your advocacy.



6. What are the advantages and the differences between individual
advocacy, collective advocacy and system advocacy?



7. Skills and strategies for communicating your message effectively

a. Preparing written and verbal advocacy

b. Developing an effective style of presentation for your issue

c. Targeting your advocacy



8. Using the media to promote your issue. Can it work effectively for
your issue?



9. How can understanding Health Literacy be helpful for advocating for
your issue?



10. How could understanding the Social Determinates of Health help
inform your advocacy?



This is the third year we have offered a similar workshop.

We have introduced some new topics. Previous participants are welcome to
participate again. Or come and tell us how you went and get some
feedback from experienced advocates on your strategies.