Part A)

To Prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources concerning sociocultural factors in career development presented over the past two weeks.
• Identify a marginalized population in your community or future work setting.
• Consider the specific factors that might influence their career development or access to decent work and how you might address this in your role as a counselor.
• Prepare references to support your conclusions from the Learning Resources or the Walden Library.

• Post a description of a marginalized population in your community or future work setting.
• Discuss the specific factors that might influence their career development or access to decent work.
• Part B.
• Review this Week’s discussion posts about the factors that might influence the the career development or access to decent work for marginalized groups.
• Read through the template that is located in the Learning Resources for this assignment.

Develop an advocacy statement that addresses the importance of diversity and advocacy as it relates to career counseling. When creating your advocacy statement, be sure to address the key components of advocacy, including a discussion of how you might advocate for clients and students across micro, meso, and macro levels of society. Much like a theoretical orientation statement, your goal is to describe your commitment to social change and advocacy for all clients and students in a fair and safe manner.

• Note: Your advocacy statement should be one to two paragraphs in length. A meaningful statement requires more than a simple sentence stating your beliefs or aspirations. Your advocacy statement should be a tool to begin dialogue between you and your clients/students to explain the ways you work in your role as a counselor to address the needs of clients/students who may be marginalized on the basis of some aspect of their social identity.

Describe how your clients or students might be challenged by various sociocultural factors on their career development. Then, in 2-3 pages,

• Describe three culturally sensitive ways in which you might apply career development theories while also addressing these socioculural factors.
• Include specific advocacy strategies to address the client’s/student’s needs at the appropriate levels.

You must cite at least 2 peer-reviewed articles to justify how you are addressing the sociocultural factors and the specific advocacy strategies you selected.