Lupus Canada Advokit

Go For It!

This kit offers the advocate some basic tools: information and ideas for finding more, a few hints and tips, and a gentle, encouraging push in the right direction.

The rest is up to you: using your commitment, your communication skills, your curiosity, and all your other abilities, build on it, and accomplish as much as is possible.

Occasionally, the system cannot be convinced to bend. This shouldn't be seen as a failure. Rather, it is a challenge to the advocate's creativity - the fourth "C" an advocate needs.

If the system is rigid, you need to be flexible: find another system, another individual or another solution altogether.

Go back to listing options and going through the steps in the process. Sometimes a problem must be accepted as unresolvable at this time, and that, in its own way, is a solution.

Empowerment is the basic attitude underlying advocacy: the conviction that every person has the right to be heard, the right to understand, the right to decide, the right to that "level playing field". The more we act on this attitude, the more people will come to recognize the rights of persons with lupus.

The system is made up of people. If enough people come to believe in rights and empowerment and act on this belief, the system will have to gradually become more flexible.