Advocating for the Specialty Area Assignment
General Instructions
Use at least three sources from the module readings to create a Word document for this assignment. Use the sample paper template provided in the course and include headings throughout this document. This document should be 3-4 pages of content, not including the title page or references. Remember to export your final version of the Word document to a .pdf file and upload the .pdf file as your assignment.
For this assignment, please define and describe advocacy in the context of your counseling specialty. As you think through the role of being an advocate in your specialty area (clinical mental health or school counseling), what challenges or needs in your specialty area might require your advocacy work at the local, state, and national level? For example, you might face a challenge related to inadequate funding for services in your area, or administrators who are not supportive of your efforts, or lack of access to appropriate services due to geography. List at least one challenge you might face in your counseling work at all three levels: Local, State, and National. For each challenge that you identified, describe specific ways you might advocate to bring about positive change. Also, describe to whom you would direct your advocacy efforts at each level.
Scoring Guidelines
Points available: 100
| Component | Unacceptable | Acceptable | Target |
| Advocacy Defined
(CACREP 2F.1.d, 2F.1.e; ALSDE 1.4, 1.5, 10.5) |
Missing or inaccurate definition of advocacy. Missing or inaccurate discussion of the importance of advocacy
(0 points) |
Advocacy is defined but only its importance
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Complete definition of advocacy provided, along with a robust discussion of the importance of advocacy in the field of counseling.
(20) |
| Local Advocacy Efforts
(CACREP 2F.1.d, 2F.1.e; ALSDE 1.4, 1.5, 10.5) |
No local challenge is described. No description of advocacy efforts is included.
(0) |
A local challenge that might be faced is described but only nominally.
Description of advocacy efforts lacks depth and specificity. (10) |
At least one local challenge that might be faced is described, along with a thorough description of advocacy efforts to overcome that challenge
(20) |
| State Advocacy Efforts
(CACREP 2F.1.d, 2F.1.e; ALSDE 1.4, 1.5, 10.5) |
No state-level challenge is described. No description of advocacy efforts is included.
(0) |
A state-level challenge that might be faced is described but only nominally.
Description of advocacy efforts lacks depth and specificity. |
At least one state-level challenge that might be faced is described, along with a thorough description of advocacy efforts to
overcome that challenge |
| (10) | (20) | ||
| National Advocacy Efforts
(CACREP 2F.1.d, 2F.1.e; ALSDE 1.4, 1.5, 10.5) |
No national-level challenge is described. No description of advocacy efforts is included.
(0) |
A national-level challenge that might be faced is described but only nominally.
Description of advocacy efforts lacks depth and specificity. (10) |
At least one national- level challenge that might be faced is described, along with a thorough description of advocacy efforts to overcome that challenge
(20) |
| Professional Presentation (grammar, mechanics, spelling) | Writing involves many errors (more than 3). (0 points) | Writing involves few errors (no more than 2). (10 points) | Writing is free of all writing errors.
(20 points) |
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