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Advocacy is a vital component of the early childhood professional’s role. Advocacy can occur on a daily basis through supportive interactions with children and their families and connecting families to needed resources. At a broader and more public level, advocacy can occur when a specific message is developed and disseminated with the goal of positively impacting the lives of children, families, early childhood professionals, and the field as a whole.

Developing effective advocacy messages requires deep knowledge of a particular topic, an effective means of delivering the message, and the ability to design a research-based message that can serve to motivate others to your cause. Over the next few weeks, you will design three advocacy pieces. Each advocacy piece will use a different format—this week piece will be a speech. Each advocacy message must be on a different topic and related to nurturing young children.

To prepare:

Select from the following topics:

• Attachment
• Self-regulation
• Family cultures
• Resilience
• Risk factors
• Across each of these topics, the information you develop needs to be responsive to the following:
  • Audience: For whom is this information being developed? (Families, early childhood coaches, policy makers, educators, etc.)
  • Role: Whom are you speaking as? Please select a role that provides your voice for each piece that is meaningful to you (educator, family advocate, administrator, coach, policy maker, researcher).
  • Goal: What do you hope to gain by sharing this information? What impact do you want to have on your target audience?