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Course Overview: Welcome! This course provides valuable information regarding Council advocacy, support toward systems change, strategies to educate policymakers, conditions for advocating a position, and more.

We will focus on the following:

The Council’s role as advocate
Definition of ‘advocacy activities’
Strategies that support educating policymakers
Coalition development and citizen participation
Program instruction information
Conditions for advocating a position

Course Objectives:

In this course, you will:

Explain the Council’s role as an advocate for those with DD
Define ‘advocacy activities‘
Discuss strategies that support educating policymakers
Describe the conditions necessary to advocate a position or viewpoint
State the conditions necessary to advise legislators to adopt legislation

To Begin, Click on Lesson One