When do we advocate

Around the globe, there are many amazing advocacy organizations fighting for the rights of people living with HIV. Below are some examples:.

Serving as an HIV advocate can be a very rewarding experience, especially when you see the difference you are making in people's lives. However, if you are constantly giving and not taking time to refill yourself, you put yourself at risk for burnout.

If you are burned out, you may find yourself feeling cynical about your advocacy, or doubt your effectiveness. You may also find yourself feeling overwhelmed, numb, frustrated, bored, or unappreciated. If you find yourself also feeling hopeless, lacking interest in many activities not just work , having trouble sleeping or concentrating, or not taking your HIV drugs, you may be depressed.

Unlike burnout, depression is a medical condition. If you think you may be depressed, it is important to talk with your health care provider.

Just as each tide ebbs and flows, each person has natural and necessary periods of activity and rest. Exhaustion is a normal reaction to high levels of stress and is not necessarily a sign of illness. HIV advocacy can be particularly stressful because there are so many areas and people in need of advocacy, and people's lives are at stake.

But denying yourself proper rest and replenishment, even when others are in need and the cause is worthy, can have serious negative effects on your mental and physical health. Caring for yourself "self-care" — which may include taking some of the very advice you are sharing with others — can break the stress cycle that leads to burnout and let you recover your energy and passion. It is important for you to pay attention not only to what drains you but also to what re-energizes you.

This will be different for each person. Do you need more sleep? Time outdoors? A good laugh? Some time to journal? Connecting with friends? All of these are opportunities to re-energize and avoid burnout. For more ideas, see our fact sheet on Stress Management. I came to learn about the issues my friends, fellow students and work colleagues with disabilities faced and committed myself to helping advocate for others.

People are often unaware of how to help, even after being introduced to a cause. The list of targets includes accessible airline travel, responsible rules to accommodate the disabled, and more access to clinical trials.

These changes would not happen without strong advocacy, thoughtful philanthropy and dedicated professionals. Advocating together will get any one project further than one small voice. Advocacy is necessary because there are still issues that many people do not even realize are issues. With advocacy you have a vision and that creates a path for change. I sincerely believe that, without advocacy, people would be robbed of their needs and their rights.

By trying to advocate for ourselves and others, we can take care of one another and achieve things that might not otherwise be possible. What does advocacy mean to you? Christians have a particularly unique role to play in influencing them, and we equip advocates to employ their faith as they engage with elected officials.

We advocate with authority and confidence, using evidence rooted in our relationships with the poor at the community level. Our efforts are intended to amplify the voices of the unheard, and whenever possible, we let the poor speak for themselves — just as God declared in Isaiah that the poor would play the primary role in the restoration of their communities.

Believing that our advocacy is on behalf of real lives rather than abstract issues, and that those lives have great worth and value to God, we lift up the stories of those in poverty. We trust that these stories will move our leaders to make decisions with compassion.

Proverbs Isaiah , Susan1 Oct But if the Republican Party retained me with or without pay as an advocate for lower taxes, I could say "I am an advocate noun for the Republican Party" or "I advocate verb for the Republican Party.

John Eidsmoe Jan When the preposition 'for' is used with the verb 'advocate' is would mean 'for the benefit of'. Therefore, the sentence 'She advocates for foster children' is grammatically correct while 'He advocates for lower taxes' is NOT grammatically correct as lower taxes is not the beneficiary.

Please note that just because a usage has become widespread, that does not make it grammatically correct. If so, the sentence 'I seen the movie' would be deemed correct.

SCOT Feb So okay, does one "advocate their library" or "advocate for their library"? I can be an advocate for using the library be a person who encourages the use of the library and I can advocate for the library actively raise awareness of -or- build support for. Look it up in a contemporary dictionary, and you'll find that, as a verb, "advocate" can be either transitive or intransitive. As a transitive verb, it means "to support" or "to promote", and it's proper to say "advocate X" where x is what's supported or promoted.

But as an intransitive verb it means "to act as an advocate for," and it's proper to say "advocate for X". AMP Jan The way I see people using 'advocate for' is as shorthand for 'act as an advocate for'. I can't find any single English word which will quite do this job.

This may explain its fast spread, and I think we may find we're stuck with it. Cruciada Oct The way I see people using 'advocate for' is as shorthand for 'act as advocate for'.