Careful monitoring is one important components of the advocacy approach. Careful monitoring deals with paying close attention to your youth and your advocacy effects throughout the 18-week intervention. As advocates it's important the we determine the youth’s satisfaction with the changes that have occurred and also heck the specific effects of the change directly. For example, if your youth has a failing grade in a certain subject one possible solution could be to work out a plan to meet with his/her teachers, and find him/her a tutor. After implementing a strategy you would need to follow-up by checking up on the youth’s progress.
The key to monitoring in the advocacy efforts is to ask specific questions for your youth and other people that may be involved in the situation. As an advocate, you need to know enough about the situation so that you are able to assess whether anything useful has happened. For example, it’s not good to play 20 questions just to find out what happened. Whenever asking a question the response yes or no is not sufficient enough when you're trying to make a change effort. You would most liking get better feedback if you:
1.)Have established a relationship with your youth.
2.)If you are are informed about any changes desired.
3.)Can ask questions in a way that your youth can understand.
4.)Lastly, if you can convince your youth that you know what you are talking about.
Similar to the regular monitoring process there is also a second advocacy effort approach, they include:
1.)You should allow enough time for the change to happen and to take place. When you have the patience to allow things to change it then describes the position you should take next.
2.)Careful monitoring during the change process should provide you any other information that you need to use in any other further step process.
3.)Most importantly you should always assess both with your youth and you professor whether if any additional effort in an area of unmet need is indicated.
Sources:
http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/pluginfile.php/128097/mod_resource/content/1/Monitoring%20and%20evaluating%20advocacy.pdf
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