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Advocacy Press . . .
Since 1983 Advocacy Press has been a leader in the development,
publication and distribution of equity-oriented publications and
programs for children, adolescents, and young adults. Our publications
promote self-reliance and gender equity and encourage realistic
life and career planning.
Advocacy Press . . .
publications have been used successfully for over 20 years in
schools, juvenile justice placements, and community youth organizations.
Advocacy Press . . .
has combined our own materials with an array of carefully researched
life skills development and equity-oriented publications, programs
and videos from other publishers. It is our goal to provide a
complete source of the finest resources to support our mutual
efforts to give every child the opportunity to dream, aspire and
succeed.
Joan Bowman, Ph.D.
Publisher
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Awards and Reviews
AAUW awarded its prestigious Eleanor Roosevelt Research and Development
Award to Advocacy Press in 1991 for its Choices Series. My Way
Sally won the Ben Franklin Award for Best Children’s Picture
Book in 1989. Other Advocacy Press titles won the Friends of American
Writers Award and Honorable mention: Best Children’s Book
by the Mid-America Publishers Association. In addition, Advocacy
Press programs and publications have been reviewed in Working
Mother, PTA Today, Career World, the Los Angles Times, and Family
Circle.
Advocacy Press is Division of Girls Incorporated of Greater
Santa Barbara, an affiliate of Girls Incorporated.
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