Self-advocacy calls for owning your story and life experiences, including the fruits of your labor and the consequences of your actions.

Self-advocacy matters. Here's how it aligns with servant leadership principles, and ways to reframe self-advocacy as a constructive, necessary part of career mobility.

What is important is we encourage self-advocacy in kids, regardless of their ability. This is not only an important life skill, but also essential to having personal safety and fulfillment.

Overall self-advocacy comes down to having confidence in all you bring to the table, and maybe, for the first time acknowledging that what you bring is a lot.

The Eastlake-based organization We Thrive Together will hold a Self-Advocacy Tour event for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their loved ones and interested community ...