Advocacy


 * ||  ||<   ||   ||   ||   ||< **Advocacy-Based Service-Learning**
 * Bundled Resource**
 * Description:** Advocacy-based service-learning is a critical model of civic education and a powerful level for community change. The University of Wisconsin’s Diana Hess and Casey Meehan define advocacy-based service, offer examples, answer common concerns, and raise five essential questions for practitioners.
 * Description:** Advocacy-based service-learning is a critical model of civic education and a powerful level for community change. The University of Wisconsin’s Diana Hess and Casey Meehan define advocacy-based service, offer examples, answer common concerns, and raise five essential questions for practitioners.

Additional Resources * **[|Facilitator's Guide]** > Orients facilitators to the intended audience, goals, agenda, and leader tips for delivering this presentation.

> Includes a 36-slide exploration of advocacy as a model of service-learning and civic education.
 * **[|PowerPoint Presentation]**

> Hess and Meehan review the key points from the PowerPoint presentation.
 * **[|Handout 1 - Summary of Key Points]**

> Once youth/ students have researched several promising policy alternatives, this activity and worksheet give them a framework to help select the most promising or powerful alternative.
 * **[|Handout 2 - Activity for How to Select the Best Policy Alternative]**

> Westheimer and Kahne (2000) researched service-learning programs to explore what type of citizen each hoped to inspire. This handout summarizes the three different conceptions of what people thought it meant to be a good citizen.
 * **[|Handout 3 - Three Types of Citizens]**

> Includes a bibliography of resources on advocacy-based service-learning, along with helpful web sites. ||  ||
 * **[|Handout 4 - Resource List]**

**The Revolution Will Be Mapped** **Article** **Author(s):** Miller McCune Magazine **Short Summary:** Fascinating article on how GIS mapping technology is helping low-income communities get better services (e.g. education, transportation, health care) by providing a visual map of what discrimination looks like! Where words and statistics have failed, the visual representation of discrimination has been convincing evidence for change!