A-Z Advocacy Model

Principles and Sub-Principles of the A-Z Advocacy Model

Principle One

An analysis of intersectionality and patriarchy deepens the understanding of root causes and becomes fundamental to program design.

• An analysis of how power, equality and empowerment are compromised by the intersectionality of oppressions, including patriarchy, is fundamental to the A-Z Advocacy Model.
• Confronting root causes and building culturally-specific interventions are intertwined in the A-Z Advocacy Model.

Principle Two

Culturally-specific programming means designing services that address ethnic and linguistic diversity within and among Asians and Pacific Islanders.

• Expanding language services to match the changing needs of ethnic communities, in some cases even beyond the original target population, is a principle of the A-Z Advocacy Model.
• Providing language access, often for multiple API and non-API languages is a principle of the A-Z Advocacy Model.

Principle Three

Survivor-centered advocacy is based on a culturally-specific analysis and definition of domestic and family violence.

• Broadening the definition and analyzing the differing dynamics of domestic violence in API families is a principle of the A-Z Advocacy Model.
• Culturally-specific definitions, interventions, and prevention of domestic violence become integral to systems change in the A-Z Advocacy Model

Principle Four

Integrating an analysis of, and responses to, gender-based violence when working with API survivors of domestic violence became evidence-informed practice.

• Broadening domestic violence services to address gender-based violence over the lifecourse is a survivor-centered advocacy principle of the A-Z Advocacy Model.
• Understanding the impact of lifecourse abuse and negative and positive help-seeking experiences has expanded a culturally-specific inventory of practice

Principle Five

Engaging in systems advocacy builds gateways to services through collaboration, policy advocacy, and research.

• Institutionalizing systems advocacy to mitigate system barriers is a principle of the A-Z Advocacy Model.
• Taking leadership on systems advocacy to mitigate language access barriers for all survivors with limited English proficiency is a principle of the A-Z Advocacy Model.
• Integrating tools for economic security is a growing component of the A-Z Advocacy Model. Policy advocacy on behalf of Asian (and other) immigrant survivors is a core organizing principle for systems advocacy in the A-Z Advocacy Model.
• Research to establish need and analyze context is a strategy for systems advocacy in the A-Z Advocacy Model.
• Unique collaborations to promote systems advocacy for immigrant survivors unfamiliar with systems in the U.S. is a principle of the A-Z Advocacy Model.

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