23 Apr Written Advocacy Action Plan (AAP)

For your final project, you will create an Advocacy Action Plan (AAP) that requires you

to demonstrate the culmination of knowledge you have gained throughout this course

about fundamental concepts and core underlying components for authentic homeschool-community partnerships. Building on your AAP work in Units 3 and 5, you will:

1)identify an advocacy issue (a pressing issue and/or concern for young children and

theirfamilies), 2) act as an advocate for change, and 3) plan action.

Your AAP Final Project has two parts:

• Written Advocacy Action Plan: Your AAP will consist of 4 to 5 pages not

including the Title and References pages. You are required to utilize course

resources (e.g., textbooks, articles, and media).

• AAP Presentation: Prepare and record a 5-to-7-minute narrated presentation of

the key advocacy and action messages.

NAEYC Key Assessment – Address Key Elements:

NAEYC Standard 2 Building Family and Community Relationships

2a. Knowing about and understanding diverse family and community characteristics

2b. Supporting and engaging families and communities through respectful, reciprocal

relationships

NAEYC Standard 4 Using Developmentally Effective Approaches

4a. Understanding positive relationships and supportive interactions as the foundation

of their work with children.

NAEYC Standard 6 Becoming a Professional

6a. Identifying and involving oneself with the early childhood field.

6b. Knowing about and upholding ethical standards and other early childhood

professional guidelines.

6c. Engaging in continuous, collaborative learning to inform practice; using technology

effectively with young children, with peers, and as a professional resource.

6e. Engaging in informed advocacy for young children and the early childhood

Profession.

CHS236 – Home, School, and

Community

Unit 7 Final Project: Advocacy Action Plan & Presentation

Instructions

Using comprehensive details, complete all of the following components:

Part 1: Written Advocacy Action Plan (AAP)

1. Identify one (1) issue based on the status of children in your home state or

another chosen state (Children’s Defense Fund Annual “Children in the States

Fact Sheets”). NAEYC Standard 2a

2. Connect the issue to one (1) of the five Strengthening Families Protective

Factors. NAEYC Standard 4a

• Write an explicit description of the issue and the connection to a protective

factor. The five protective factors are:

1) Parental resilience,

2) Social connections,

3) Knowledge of parenting and child development,

4) Concrete support in times of need, and

5) Social and emotional competence of children.

3. Describe your advocacy position. Explain why you have selected this issue

and the need to advocate for change. Apply all of the following to your

advocacy position:

• One (1) sociological theory NAEYC Standard 6a

• At least two (2) fundamental course concepts NAEYC Standard 6a

• At least one (1) ideal or principle from the NAEYC

Code of Ethical Conduct NAEYC Standard 6b

4. Design an Action Team NAEYC Standard 2b

Families must be on the team. You are not to do this on your own!

• Describe who you will need to partner with in the development and

implementation of your plan.

• Explain how this action plan supports families as their children’s first

andmost important teachers and advocates!

5. Present the Advocacy Plan NAEYC Standard 6e

• Demonstrate your ideas and strategies for addressing this issue and

improving conditions for families with young children.

• Utilize at least two evidence-based programs, approaches, strategies

and/or tools from course resources.

o Examples: Help Me Grow, a checklist from Beyond the Bake Sale,

an article, and/or a video.

Part 2: Videotaped AAP Presentation NAEYC Standard 6c

Using technology, you will communicate a comprehensive, fact-based, and persuasive

advocacy statement. You want to help others understand and support your key advocacy

issue, position and action messages.

Utilize your written AAP (Part 1) to articulate key messages from all of the sections.

You may also use information from the PowerPoint documents created in Units 3 and 5.

Your presentation must demonstrate:

• Connections between theory, data, and research-based programs,

• Identification of your selected state and the data-based advocacy issue,

• Creation of your Action Team, members, and evidence of a partnership arrangement,

• Application of one sociological theory, ethical conduct, and two fundamental

course concepts,

• Utilization of programs, models, and/or tools from course resources.

• Specific ways in which you are supporting families as their children’s first and

most important teachers and advocates.

Upon completion of the videotaping:

• Review the CHS236 YouTube Video Submission Instructions to learn how to

submit your video to YouTube.

• Upload your completed presentation to YouTube and obtain a viewing link for

submission.

Requirements

• Written AAP

o Word document in APA 7 format (with Title Page and Reference Page).

o Minimum four to five (4-5) pages in length, excluding Title and Reference

pages.

• AAP Presentation

o Narrated video five to seven (5-7) minutes in length uploaded to YouTube.

• Submit both the Written AAP and the AAP Presentation YouTube link to the Unit

7 assignment submission link.

Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be evaluated

before you write and again after you write.