Moving to Action: Advocacy, Referrals, and Goal-Setting
Learn strategies for making referrals, advocating for families and creating family action plans. Explore the importance of referrals and advocacy in widening a family's support network and tips for creating action plans that matter and support family success.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Use techniques to encourage families to follow through on referrals and become their own advocates
- Identify the reasons a family may need advocacy from the family support professional
- Use the "Do For, Do With, Cheer On" model to identify the family's level of self-sufficiency
- Use assessments as the foundation to develop a time-limited, outcome-based action or goal plan
- Use a strength-based perspective to set goals and motivate families
- Create SMART goals and use the 5 W's to create an action plan
- Use action plans to build confidence and competence in parents and enhance family functioning
- Author
- Iowa Department of Public Health
- Supplemental Materials
- Estimated Time to Complete
- 180 minutes
- Skills Addressed
- Relationship-based Family Partnerships Community Resources and Support Building community relationships Service system coordination and referral Referral process Advocacy Empowering families Collaboration Goal setting Identification of community resources Service barriers Action planning
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