Assignment task:
Advocacy consists of the purposive efforts to change specific existing or proposed policies or practices on behalf of or with a specific client or group of clients. On one hand, the practitioner is seeking change by "arguing, pushing, negotiating, giving, lobbying, litigating, representing, influencing and on the other the practitioner is engaging in advocacy training and the trainee will engage in advocacy. The practitioner is not directly seeking change, but the efforts will directly lead to change.
Please give examples of activities in which practitioners engage to directly seek change, as well as examples of activities that do not directly seek change, but whose efforts will lead to change.
Describe how both types of activities are important to advocacy.