What is Self-Advocacy?
It is the ability to articulate one’s needs & make informed decisions about the support necessary to meet those needs.
This is NOT easy…even for adults. But nothing is impossible. The word itself spells “I’M POSSIBLE”
What can Self-Advocacy look like?
Are you comfortable being assertive?
Do you know you legal rights?
Are you interested in fixing the problem for yourself…and/or many like you (i.e. systemic changes to laws and policies?
Then you might be a Warrior for Youth Justice!
Like Shanen Koostacin of Attiwapiskat (includes photos of Shanen)
Self-Advocacy may be difficult - but that does not mean that it is impossible.
Remember it literally spell “I’M POSSIBLE”!