ADVOCACY - THE LAW ALLOWS FOR IT

Survivors want your help. They need your advocacy.

It is part of your job, as an advocate, to lend a voice for respect, dignity, understanding and helpful problem solving for battered women.

You, as a victim advocate, have a unique role; different from that of the case manager, the social worker, the mental health counselor, the drug and alcohol professional - different from anyone else who may have been called in to assist.

You are not there to be an impartial or neutral observer. You are there to stick up for your client. You are there to understand what she wants, to understand what is possible within the rules and laws of the welfare system, and to shamelessly promote resolution that supports, to the absolute fullest potential, your client's safety and an unencumbered journey to economic self-sufficiency. The law allows for it. Your client needs and deserves it.