A Path to Power: Self Advocates Community Organizing

Marie Malinowski is a self-advocate from New York and is a 2017-2018 SARTAC Fellow. Marie’s project was to teach self-advocates about community organizing using videos, handouts, and presentations. Marie worked in partnership with the Self-Advocacy Association of New York State and VOICE Buffalo in Buffalo, NY.

Marie developed the following resources as part of her fellowship:

Two handouts (download below):

• Effective Meetings
• One to Ones

There are also videos that you can watch on these subjects:

• What is Community Organizing?
• Community Organizing Tool: One to Ones
• One to Ones: An example
• Community Organizing: Agency Director’s View
• Community Organizing: Private vs. Public

Special Thanks and Appreciation to:

Starlight Art Studio, Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, The Center for Self-Advocacy, and Gamaliel

Download Files for this Resource

• Effective Meetings PDF
• One-on-Ones PDF