Advocacy

For your final project, you will create an Advocacy Action Plan (AAP) that requires you to demonstrate the culmination of knowledge you have gained throughout this course about fundamental concepts and core underlying components for authentic home- school-community partnerships. Building on your AAP work in Units 3 and 5, you will: 1)identify an advocacy issue (a pressing issue and/or concern for young children and theirfamilies), 2) act as an advocate for change, and 3) plan action.
Your AAP Final Project has two parts:
Written Advocacy Action Plan: Your AAP will consist of 4 to 5 pages not
including the Title and References pages. You are required to utilize course resources (e.g., textbooks, articles, and media).
AAP Presentation: Prepare and record a 5-to-7-minute narrated presentation of the key advocacy and action messages.
NAEYC Key Assessment – Address Key Elements:
NAEYC Standard 2 Building Family and Community Relationships
2a. Knowing about and understanding diverse family and community characteristics 2b. Supporting and engaging families and communities through respectful, reciprocal relationships
NAEYC Standard 4 Using Developmentally Effective Approaches
4a. Understanding positive relationships and supportive interactions as the foundation of their work with children.
NAEYC Standard 6 Becoming a Professional
6a. Identifying and involving oneself with the early childhood field.
6b. Knowing about and upholding ethical standards and other early childhood professional guidelines.
6c. Engaging in continuous, collaborative learning to inform practice; using technology effectively with young children, with peers, and as a professional resource.
6e. Engaging in informed advocacy for young children and the early childhood
Profession.
Instructions
Using comprehensive details, complete all of the following components:
Part 1: Written Advocacy Action Plan (AAP)
1. Identify one (1) issue based on the status of children in your home state or another chosen state (Childrens Defense Fund Annual Children in the States Fact Sheets). NAEYC Standard 2a
2. Connect the issue to one (1) of the five Strengthening Families Protective Factors. NAEYC Standard 4a
Write an explicit description of the issue and the connection to a protective factor. The five protective factors are:
1) Parental resilience,
2) Social connections,
3) Knowledge of parenting and child development, 4) Concrete support in times of need, and
5) Social and emotional competence of children.
3. Describeyouradvocacyposition.Explainwhyyouhaveselectedthisissue and the need to advocate for change. Apply all of the following to your advocacy position:
One (1) sociological theory NAEYC Standard 6a
At least two (2) fundamental course concepts NAEYC Standard 6a
At least one (1) ideal or principle from the NAEYC
Code of Ethical Conduct NAEYC Standard 6b
4. Design an Action Team NAEYC Standard 2b Families must be on the team. You are not to do this on your own!
Describe who you will need to partner with in the development and implementation of your plan.
Explain how this action plan supports families as their childrens first andmost important teachers and advocates!
5. PresenttheAdvocacyPlan NAEYCStandard6e
Demonstrate your ideas and strategies for addressing this issue and
improving conditions for families with young children.
Utilize at least two evidence-based programs, approaches, strategies
and/or tools from course resources.
o Examples: Help Me Grow, a checklist from Beyond the Bake Sale, an article, and/or a video.
Part 2: Videotaped AAP Presentation NAEYC Standard 6c
Using technology, you will communicate a comprehensive, fact-based, and persuasive advocacy statement. You want to help others understand and support your key advocacy issue, position and action messages.
Utilize your written AAP (Part 1) to articulate key messages from all of the sections. You may also use information from the PowerPoint documents created in Units 3 and 5.
Your presentation must demonstrate:
Connectionsbetweentheory,data,andresearch-basedprograms,
Identification of your selected state and the data-based advocacy issue,
Creation of your Action Team, members, and evidence of a partnership arrangement,
Application of one sociological theory, ethical conduct, and two fundamental course concepts,
Utilization of programs, models, and/or tools from course resources.
Specific ways in which you are supporting families as their childrens first and
most important teachers and advocates.
Upon completion of the videotaping:
ReviewtheCHS236YouTubeVideoSubmissionInstructionstolearnhowto submit your video to YouTube.
Upload your completed presentation to YouTube and obtain a viewing link for submission.
Requirements
Written AAP
o Word document in APA 7 format (with Title Page and Reference Page). o Minimum four to five (4-5) pages in length, excluding Title and Reference
pages.
AAP Presentation
o Narrated video five to seven (5-7) minutes in length uploaded to YouTube.
Submit both the Written AAP and the AAP Presentation YouTube link to the Unit

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