Safe and Strong: PDF FILLABLE: Empower Students With 15 Self-advocacy SKILLS
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Description
Teachers, counselors, and parents - Give your students easy solutions to thrive by practicing these 15 self-advocacy skills (science based). AVAILABLE AT 50% DISCOUNT Through Friday SEPT 29.
Through a range of engaging teaching tools, such as, slides, fillable PDF or printable worksheets, real-life stories, self-assessment activities, goal-setting templates, and even art and poetry, your students will be entertained while gaining the knowledge about these self-advocacy skills.
Why This Resource?
Many young people face uphill battles in their journey towards their aspirations. Emotional exhaustion, increased stress, mental health concerns, worries about violence and homelessness—these are just some of the challenges they confront. My objective is to equip youth with the knowledge and self-advocacy tools they need to regain control, foster resilience, and achieve their dreams.
By introducing these 15 scientifically-proven self-advocacy skills to your students or clients, you are arming them with their very own superpower. These skills will become their compass, guiding them towards inner peace amidst chaos and empowering them to overcome adversity with resilience. Thus, they are invaluable tools that will stay with them throughout their lives, enabling them to confidently navigate any situation that comes their way.
My inspiration comes from the pioneering works of Daniel Goleman, American psychologist and science journalist on Emotional Intelligence, Martin Seligman is a psychologist and educator who is widely known for his work in strengths and learned helplessness in the field of positive psychology, and Michael Wehmeyer’s work on self-advocacy skills to provide individuals with the knowledge, skills, and supports necessary to advocate for themselves and make informed choices and decisions that impact their lives.
Drawing on my 35+ years of experience in teaching, research, and supporting my own autistic son, I developed this resource. My ultimate goal is to benefit students who aspire to shape their own lives, even in the face of obstacles, setbacks, and fears. Within these 137 pages, my aim is to empower youth to courageously embrace challenges and positive opportunities.This resource is designed for teenagers and young adults, includingneurodivergent and disabled students.
Personally, I have used these tools to support my autistic son to live a working artist life within his preferred personal quality of life. Equally important, I found these self-advocacy skills immensely helpful in bolstering my own resilience. That's why I also wholeheartedly recommend this resource to caregivers or anyone facing multiple responsibilities and challenges. The key to unlocking a person’s worth and navigating challenges lies in self-advocacy.
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What’s Inside
Table of Contents
1 -Student Packet of slides including (PDF Fillable or printable)
1 -Teacher’s Guide,
9 -Sections,
8 -Downloadable PDF Posters,
7 -Downloadable PDF Fillable Worksheets +
15 -anecdotes about youth with autism and related disabilities entering their first job or career, indicating challenges and self-advocacy skills to find solutions.
1 -story using metaphor, art, and fantasy showing self-advocacy.
1 -Scenario based and strength based student self-advocacy self-assessment (based upon research). 1 answer sheet packet pdf fillable.
1 -Answer key. (Student self-evaluates answers)
1 -planning template, Four Ways to Build Self-advocacy, Using the Self-advocacy S.A.F.E. Wheel
1 -Teacher Guide Packet
Number of pages: 137
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YOU MAY:
*Use this product in your home, classroom with only your students, or counselor/therapist office with only your clients.
*Make as many copies as you need for your own students or your own caseload use.
*Refer others who would like to use this resource to: Youth Opportunity Academy
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YOU MAY NOT:
*Share, copy or distribute this product to another teacher, counselor, classroom, educator, department, or school system.
*Post any of this product digitally to a school/district website or public view.
*Extract graphics or text to post on facebook group or another social media platform or use to make a new product to sale for commercial use.
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About Dr. Jackie Marquette
I teach courses, coach, write books and create digital resources to help ‘early career students’ identify a career right for them. My resources also relates to the student’s needs to be ready socially and emotionally because college and the workplace will require much from them.
Over the past three decades, I loved working with youth who are neurodivergent, autistic, and neurotypical, identifying their best assets/qualities. In the past 3 decades my work involved negotiating job placement with supports, and untangling when I could - the environmental barriers that got in the way of their capability. It wasn’t easy. But working in collaboration with others to change attitudes that opened doors into inclusive workplaces was worth it all. I recently created my signature model ‘Thrive Career’ from decades of my work, experiences, and my 15 year qualitative research.
Most intimately, I gained in-depth insight from over hundred’s of thousands (too many to count) life experiences on my journey with my autistic son, Trent, as I created supports to meet his needs and quality of life. Over the past 20 years, I observed his passion experiencing a long career as an expressionistic/abstract artist. It hasn’t always been smooth and easy, and at times, it has been a rough, bumpy road. But he continues to show us, he thrives.
All of my books and digital resources are based upon my real life experiences, may qualitative research, and actual true stories of youth I have coached. Let me know if you have any questions. I will be happy to answer them. drjackiemarquette@gmail.com
