Self Advocacy Resources
Self Advocacy Hot Topics
Self Advocacy focuses on finding your voice, speaking up for your needs, desires, and making sure that you have voice in your own choices and paths.
See below for resources on some of our most popular topics.
Mental Health
Activity: Mindfulness Breathing Shapes
Activity: Learning Who You Are
Handout: Self Care Tips and Tricks
Handout/Activity: Self Care Heart
Group Activities
Discussing Disability
One Page Profiles
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Pre-ETS Coordinators can provide....
A few of the self-advocacy activities Pre-ETS Coordinators can provide for your classroom/students
One Page Profile:
Strengths, Goals, Interests, What Works, What Doesn’t Work, Next Steps
Person Centered Plans:
Individual – common goals and focus, encourage team involvement, assist family and student to plan for future, identify post school goals, adopt the necessary steps or activities needed to reach post school goals
MAPS & Paths:
For schools, organizations, families, businesses (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope)
Person Centered Way to Build Community – Facilitation to Create a Graphic Record for a Team for Future Planning
Disclosure Workshop: (can be done as a whole workshop or pieces)
a. When to Disclose or Not to Disclose
b. Supported Decision Making
c. Job Accommodations
MEGI (Motivational Enhancement Group Intervention) 10 sessions
Class topics: Self-Advocacy, Exploring dream jobs, Identifying Values, Discussing Disability, Identifying barriers, Recognizing strengths, How work fits into a typical day, past successes