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Free Download Advocacy and Policy Change for Undocumented Student Success
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032892587 | 222 Pages | PDF (True) | 8.4 MB
Compiling the most significant work in the field in terms of its contributions to research and professional practice, this volume uncovers the historical struggles and triumphs of undocumented students and their families in their quest for educational access and equity. From pivotal legal milestones to personal narratives of resilience and adversity, this collection paints a comprehensive picture of the ongoing battle against legal and societal barriers. It delves into the mental health impacts of living undocumented and presents innovative strategies and policy reforms aimed at bridging the gap between harsh realities and hopeful aspirations. A clarion call to action, this volume is an invitation to join the fight for a more equitable and inclusive society, recognizing the vital contributions of undocumented individuals and advocating for systemic change.

Free Download Dale H. Eberwein, "Advocacy for Change in Educational Culture "
English | ISBN: 1634842065 | 2016 | 161 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Educational culture continues to languish due to edification’s inability to provide student-based technology-enhanced strategies that encourage and nurture students while embracing a student-centric approach to learning. Providing student-based technology-enhanced educational stratagems shows promise as a means to shift educational practices and augment student performance outcomes. Advocacy for Change in Educational Culture intends to provide a compilation of conceptual frameworks, research in the field of educational technologies, available educational technologies, implications for career and leadership, and developmental architectures for pedagogical practices, whether face-to-face, hybrid, or virtual that is evolving educational culture. Combining technology and the creativity of students, providing remote access, and designing curricular presentations that make use of student-centric architectures, may promote enhanced performance outcomes academically as the student enjoys non-stereotypical educational culture. Offering virtual and technology-enhanced educational culture many times tasks students with their own edifying progress. This shift in responsibility nurtures critical thinking and seems to develop intellectual maturity as the student navigates curriculum via technology-enhanced means. Advocacy for Change in Educational Culture reports and proposes alternatives to traditional educational practices, offering stakeholders options for an educational culture not widely present in modern education. By exploring educational technologies and focusing on what works in disseminating curriculum, Advocacy for Change in Educational Culture introduces educators to skill-set opportunities that evolve current educational culture.

Free Download Max Grömping, "Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies "
English | ISBN: 047207590X | 2023 | 368 pages | EPUB | 1191 KB
Although authoritarian countries often repress independent citizen activity, lobbying by civil society organizations is actually a widespread phenomenon. Using case studies such as China, Russia, Belarus, Cambodia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, Lobbying the Autocrat shows that citizen advocacy organizations carve out niches in the authoritarian policy process, even influencing policy outcomes. The cases cover a range of autocratic regime types (one-party, multi-party, personalist) on different continents, and encompass different systems of government to explore citizen advocacy ranging from issues such as social welfare, women’s rights, election reform, environmental protection, and land rights. They show how civil society has developed adaptive capacities to the changing levels of political repression and built resilience through ‘tactful contention’ strategies. Thus, within the bounds set by the authoritarian regimes, adaptive lobbying may still bring about localized responsiveness and representation.

Free Download Jessica Findley JD PhD, "The Science of Attorney Advocacy: How Courtroom Behavior Affects Jury Decision Making "
English | ISBN: 1433810980 | 2012 | 298 pages | PDF | 1391 KB
This book reviews the scientific support for popular strategies that law professors, judges, and other trial commentators most commonly recommend for persuading juries. It first summarizes trial commentators’ recommendations, then reviews the scientific support for these recommendations, and finally evaluates the recommendations in light of the scientific support. Research is culled from not only trial and simulated trial settings, but also other social and behavioral settings. Topics include attorney demeanor, verbal and nonverbal communications, the attorney-client relationship, and storytelling (narrative techniques).

Free Download Bruce S. Jansson, "Social Welfare Policy and Advocacy: Advancing Social Justice Through Eight Policy Sectors Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1506384064 | 2019 | 552 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Social Welfare Policy and Advocacy presents a multi-level framework to show students how micro, mezzo, and macro policy advocacy can be used effectively by social workers in eight policy sectors: healthcare, gerontology, safety-net, child and family, mental health, education, immigration, and criminal justice. Author Bruce S. Jansson identifies seven core problems within each sector and discusses the skills social workers need, the challenges they face, and the interventions they can use at each level of advocacy. Readers will gain knowledge of social welfare policy issues and be equipped with essential tools for engaging in policy advocacy.

Free Download Stephen Noakes, "The advocacy trap: Transnational activism and state power in China"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1526119471 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.5 mb
What does China’s rise mean for transnational civil society? What happens when global activist networks engage a powerful and norm-resistant new hegemon? This book combines detailed ethnographic research with cross-case comparisons to identify key factors underpinning variation in the results and processes of advocacy on a range of issues affecting both China and the world, including global warming, intellectual property rights, HIV/AIDS treatment, the use of capital punishment, suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement, and Tibetan independence. Built on a unique blend of comparative and international theory, it advances the notion of "advocacy drift"―a process whereby the objectives and principled beliefs of activists are transformed through interaction with the Chinese state. The book offers a timely reassessment of transnational civil society, including its power to persuade and to leverage the policies of national governments.

Free Download Lisa E. Cox, "Introduction to Social Work: An Advocacy-Based Profession "
English | ISBN: 1071839810 | 2021 | 680 pages | PDF | 71 MB
The award-winning Introduction to Social Work: An Advocacy-Based Profession takes students on an exploration of what social work is, what it was historically, and how to be an effective advocate as a social worker moving forward. Built on a unique advocacy practice and policy model comprised of four components―economic and social justice, a supportive environment, human needs and rights, and political access―the book provides a crucial lens for viewing today’s social issues. Best-selling authors Lisa E. Cox, Carolyn J. Tice, and Dennis D. Long emphasize advocacy throughout all sectors of social work, with a focus on environmental, international, and military social work. The Third Edition closely aligns with the latest Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE); references the 2018 Code of Ethics from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW); and includes profound discussions of societal impacts on areas of public health, policy, juvenile justice, race, inequality, social movements, and self-care.

Free Download Winning Nonprofit Advocacy
Published 8/2024
Duration: 1h18m | Video: .MP4, 1920×1080 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, 2ch | Size: 2.65 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Crafting Strategies that Influence Policy and Power

Free Download Mary Cowe, "Practical Advocacy in the Crown Court "
English | ISBN: 1526516322 | 2020 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Practical Advocacy in the Crown Court follows the life of a case in the Crown Court chronologically, providing guidance and insights at each step. It guides the reader from first conference through legal arguments and witness handling to sentencing hearings, with references to procedure, codes of conduct, and key cases. With an emphasis on practical advice, each chapter follows a similar format incorporating dos and don’ts, mock situations, and sections on good practice.

Free Download Linda S. Lloyd, Daniel J. O’Shea, "Community Health Advocacy"
English | 2002 | pages: 175 | ISBN: 0306473909, 1475787332 | PDF | 1,3 mb
This text provides a foundation for the initiation of advocacy efforts and for the evaluation of their success and includes topics such as: specific strategies, grassroots advocacy efforts, formation and development of coalitions, advocacy efforts in legislatures, administrative agencies, court, and the media. It is of interest to public and urban health workers, social workers, community organizers, and legislators.