My work in Advocacy includes a number of components. It begins with first listening to the needs of families, researching backgrounds and precedence, creating strategies and plans, facilitating those strategies and plans, representing the families needs to schools, community or government, following up with letters and phone calls, and making sure that appropriate processes for accountability are in place to ensure ongoing success.

In representing families I attend meetings, write letters, conduct interviews and review all written materials. When families are apprehensive in voicing their concerns and needs, I am their voice. When families are concerned with maintaining relationships, I become a buffer for them so that their relationships can continue as they would like. When families feel they are too emotional to handle the situation, I am there to be a clear vehicle for their message.