Choose either a school system, a clinical mental health setting, or an addiction setting. Write up a plan for increasing awareness to help advocate for the particular group/population that could be implemented in their chosen setting.

Advocacy Plan

Students will review current literature related to multicultural competency, advocacy, and professional counseling. Each student will focus on an issue relevant to one population of their choosing within either a school system, a clinical mental health setting, or an addiction setting (to be approved by instructor). Students will then write up a plan for increasing awareness to help advocate for the particular group/population that could be implemented in their chosen setting. The goal is that the plan can be implemented in a counseling setting and is not just a theoretical plan. Again, this plan would have a goal to increase awareness and advocate for one particular culture, minority or minority issue relevant to their intended site/population. The plan should include a minimum of five current (published within the last five years) research studies from professional/refereed journals in the field of professional counseling to support the rationale for this plan. The written paper must be well organized, clearly presented, with salient points and a thoughtful summary of the rationale for this particular plan for advocacy.