Social Networks & Advocacy

Catalog description

Prerequisite(s): Admission to OIPE program. This course explores the art of crafting the public narrative as one tool to enhance social networks for individuals with disabilities. This course focuses on the public narrative as a trifecta: the story of now, the story of us, and the story of self. Participants in this course explore types of social networking and tools to help build and enhance social networks and coalitions. Finally, students learn to use social networks and coalitions to strengthen public voice and therefore, begin to positively impact public policy and advocacy through relational power.