Self-Advocacy Leadership Manual

By Illinois Self-Advocacy Alliance | December 29, 2017

This Leadership Manual is useful to self-advocates as an easy-to-use guide to help start a self-advocacy group and/or strengthen an existing group. The sections make finding information easy, and activities are included throughout.

This Leadership Manual helps support the learning and strengthening of rights, self-determination, choices and decisions through the following sections:

Self-Advocacy
Spreading the Message
Recruiting Members
Your First Meeting!
Leaders and Leadership
Finding Your Focus
Support
Mission and Vision Statements
Group Structure
Getting Things Done

This resource was updated in December 2017 with some new tricks and tools for groups as well as questions and activities to help get self-advocates moving toward their advocacy goals. No matter how long a group has been around, there’s something in the Leadership Manual that can be used!