Advocacy and help-seeking: skills, support-access strategies and raising the profile of a youth health issue

What this note covers

1. Advocacy turns a health need into informed action
2. Help-seeking is a staged process
3. Barriers, access and service navigation
4. Communicating a need and working with support
5. Raising the profile without causing harm
6. Building and evaluating an advocacy plan
7. Digital advocacy with safeguards
8. Safe referral after a disclosure

8 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes