Glossary
Advocacy: Advocacy is helping a person or a group of people to stand up for their rights and get what they need - helping or supporting someone to make their own choices.
Advocate: An advocate helps someone else to stand up for their rights and get what they need - a person who helps or supports someone else to make their own choices.
Barrier: A barrier is something that gets in the way and can stop you from doing something.
Citizen: A citizen is a person who lives in a country and who has full rights and responsibilities.
Citizenship: To have citizenship is to have full rights and responsibilities where you live.
Consumer Advisory Committee: This group was a committee of the Association for Community Living - it was a group of self-advocates who met at ACL meetings.
Dehumanization: Being treated like less than a human being - with no respect.
Founding Convention: The conference or meeting when an organization starts - when the members come together to vote on and accept the by-laws or rules for the organization is called the founding convention.
Goal: Goals are the things you want to get done.
Isolation: Isolation is about being alone.
Mission: For an organization, a mission is what it wants to accomplish - sort of like a big, overall goal.
Movement: A movement is a large group of people who have the same vision, working for the same things.
Self-Advocacy: Self -advocacy is knowing your rights and speaking for yourself to get what you need or want.
Self-Advocate: A self-advocate is someone who knows his or her rights and speaks for herself or himself.
Role: A role is like a job…
Vision: A vision is about how you see things - for an organization, all the things it does are aimed at making that vision come true.
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