Children in Foster Care

1. POPULATION: Define the group for whom you are developing this advocacy plan. Children living in
Foster Care
Which areas to do you wish to investigate and advocate for change?
2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE: Describe oppression for this group. Write a brief history about how this
form of oppression has changed over time. How does this ism function in terms of the micro, meso and
macro levels? Use research to describe this oppression as it is connected to systematic, political, corporate,
procedural, policies and social/cultural practices that affect this group (e.g. division of labor, denial of access
or resources or exclusive networking of centered members, media targeting, wartime mobility, inherited
economics, ideologies or discourses, popular culture, priorities and characteristics of agencies that offer
service or social control, systems of class reproduction, institutionalized isms in social policy and dominant
discourse.) Use 3-5 peer-reviewed resources. This section should be about 5-6 pages long.
3. LEGITIMATION: What stereotypes does this group face? What information appears to be true
about this population and what information is false but presented as true in society?
4. BARRIERS: What barriers does this marginalized group face in and outside of U.S. institutions that the
centered group does not? How do members of this group experience marginalization through seemingly fair
school, local, state, or federal structures, policies, practices and culture (e.g. policies that conflict with
cultural practices, biased curricula, differential treatment, etc.).
5. BASIC PLAN: Address the micro, meso, and macro levels of how this oppression functions (each
separately)? What does this population need and how can their needs be addressed? How do you plan to
organize events, groups, resources, and/or educational experiences for them or those privileged in ways that
lead to the group’s liberation? What objectives do you want your plan to include? Include brief examples of
exercises or activities. You may wish to consider writing a lesson that identifies resources and strengths that
this population may access, gain or draw upon to support their efforts at survival and educational
achievement. What are the steps you must go through to develop and implement your plan? Give examples.
Identify strategies you can use to work against obstacles that inhibit your population from being full
members in school or their communities. How will you organize your outreach to this population?
6. RESOURCES: What resources/permission do you need to implement your plan? Who do you need to talk
to about this advocacy plan – gain an understanding of the issues?
7. DANGER ZONES: Think critically and reflexively about how to advocate for this population who lives
with the realities of structural and historical marginalization. Are there broader community, institutional and
systemic forces/resources that promote, maintain, this groups’ marginalization? In preparation to resistance,
what can you do/consider before they respond?