Advocacy for Healthcare Change

HCA

308

Advocacy for Healthcare Change

The course “Advocacy for Healthcare Change” is an overview of the role of advocacy in changing healthcare at multiple levels of influence including individual, organizational, and community. Advocacy includes using a broad range of activities, tools, models and strategies that seek to influence a specific process, policy, or cause. Healthcare professionals including union leaders play critical roles in the advocacy process by identifying issues, researching solutions, developing advocacy goals, mobilizing stakeholders, building coalitions, and lobbying. The purpose of this course is to deepen students’ understanding of advocacy tools, critically assess advocacy efforts, and gain proficiency in using advocacy in their workplace and community. Examples from active advocacy campaigns, broad-based action, and peer-reviewed and other literature will expose students to inspiring examples of current advocacy work. Students will be encouraged to identify issues within their own organizations or communities and work collaboratively to critique an existing advocacy campaign that addresses that issue and suggest how to adapt or improve those advocacy efforts.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

No

033084