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Consumer, Family and Community Advocacy

Program Overview

The Consumer, Family, and Community Advocacy (CFCA) program is offered as a weekend workshop for one credit focusing on selected topics and as a one-week face-to-face program for three credits focusing on a broad range of topics. The program provides intensive training for deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers and parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children interested in improving the quality of life for themselves and/or their families through advocacy. Top deaf professional advocates facilitate hands-on activities and presentations on developing and improving participants' advocacy knowledge and skills. Participants will receive practical inside tips on how to increase advocacy impact and a road map to guide their involvement in individual and community issues as advocates. Program materials include carefully selected readings on a wide range of advocacy issues.

Program Outcomes

  • Individual and community advocacy knowledge and skills
  • Plan for individual and community advocacy
  • Insiders tips for maximizing impact of advocacy effort
  • Advocates' roadmap for effective advocacy activities
  • Opportunities for professional networking
  • Certificate of attendance and participation

Course Information

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Contact Information

Tracey Kempton, Program Logistics Coordinator
Gerald "Bummy" Burstein Leadership Institute
College of Professional Studies and Outreach
Gallaudet University
Hall Memorial Building Room E111C
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 250-2203 Voice & Video Phone
1-866-948-8410 Toll Free: Voice & Video Phone
(202) 448-7316 Fax

 

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