Resource Name:Citizen Advocacy for Atlanta & DeKalb, Inc.
Resource Type:Disability Care
Service Type:Advocacy
Date Last Updated:January 21, 2025
Every Citizen Advocacy Relationship is as unique as the two people in the relationship. The citizen advocate shares time and experiences with the protégé to get to know them well enough to represent the protégé’s interests as if they were the advocates’ own. An advocate and protégé then decide how to respond to the vulnerabilities in the protégé’s life.
A valued citizen, who is unpaid and independent of the human services system, is invited by citizen advocacy coordinators into a relationship with a person living with a developmental disability who is vulnerable to abuse, neglect, or social isolation (called a protégé). With the coordinators’ support, the citizen advocate learns to understand, respond to, and represent that person’s interests as if they were the advocate’s own, thus bringing the person’s gifts and concerns into the circles of ordinary community life.
Disability Justice, Power of Personal Relationships, Holistic Support, Cultivating Caring Community, A Primer to Collective Action, Protection, Advocacy
1561 McLendon Ave NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
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