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helping these programs since some of them are mainly financially. 
Social Work (Crystal and Olivia)
Social Work (Crystal and Olivia)

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* XQ Super Schools
1. What is the organization's advocacy goal? What  are specific education and/or social justice issues addressed?

XQ Institute's mission is to reimagine the way that high school works in the US to ensure that every student has the opportunity to succeed. They want to take creative ideas for changing the way American high school works and implement them all over the country. Ideally they would like the project to have an impact on every student in the country. The ideas that they work on have the specific goal of ensuring that every student that graduates high school is prepared for their next step in life, whether that is college or joining the work force.

2. What educational or social policy or issue inspire their advocacy?

The spark that inspired the creation of this organization are the stark inequalities in US public schooling. The founder of the organization is responding to the fact that our high schools fail to provide a free and high quality education to all students. Specifically, these inequalities are caused by an unfair distribution of school funding and an outdated model. Also, she is addressing the fact that minority children do not receive the same educational luxuries as white children. She believes that every child in our country deserves the same opportunities for success and a top-notch education.

3. How do school teachers, social workers, counselors, or advocates partner with the community?

This organization is made up of mainly teachers and other educational workers. They are constantly reaching out to our communities to generate a creative force to fuel their initiative; they collect ideas from the public about ways in which our education system could be improved or rethought.

4. How does this advocacy initiative empower students, teachers or community members? Explain in the context of human and social capital.

XQ schools empower their students by improving both their human and social capital. In their super schools throughout the nation, students are receiving a higher level, updated education that prepares them to go into the collegiate or working world and contribute as an intellectual in our society, thus greatly improving their human capital immensely. Also, at these schools, the students are encouraged to collaborate and work in groups, therefore creating more social capital as well. Although not explicitly addressed, bridges would be created between students as a result of these super schools because they are all given the same opportunities to work together. Bonds may also be created between students of similar backgrounds who are working towards similar goals. Teachers' human capital is also increased because they are developing new and innovative teaching methods, and their social capital is increased by collaborating and building bridges by learning from other educators around the country.

5. What aspects of advocacy initiatives can be improved or pursued?

Currently, there are only 18 schools across the country that are being turned into super schools. Obviously,  it is daunting to try to take on all of the public schools in the country at the same time. However, I think it would be a good idea for this organization to start working on at least one program in every state. The current 18 schools are generally concentrated in the same areas. If they were to disperse their programs around the country more, then the word would be able to spread quickly and more schools would be interested in participating. Another way that they could improve is by creating an aspect of their program that links students from different XQ schools around the country. This would give the students (and their teachers) the opportunity to generate more social capital, specifically bridges to distant friends or also linkages to students of a different socio-economic standing.

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* Afterschool Alliance
https://www.afterschoolalliance.org/

1. What is the organization's advocacy goal? What are specific education and/or social justice issues addressed?

The Alliance works to ensure that all youth have access to affordable, quality after school programs. Their goal is to engage public will to increase public and private investment in quality after school program initiatives at the national, state, and local levels. Their goal is to be an effective voice in efforts to expand quality after school programs and they strive to serve as an information source on after school programs and resources.
2. What educational or social policy or issue inspire their advocacy?
The Afterschool Alliance was established in 2000. It grew from public awareness efforts through a public-private partnership with the US Department of Education to expand after school programs.

3. How do school teachers, social workers, counselors, or advocates partner with the community?
One of their main goals is to communicate the impact of after school programs with children, families, and the community. While being established, the departments efforts caught the attention of several outsiders with shared interest in achieving after school programs for all students. The alliance works with a range of organizations and supporters, including policymakers and policymaker associations, advocacy groups, after school associations, business and philanthropic leaders, technical assistance organizations, and leaders representing many different interests.

4. How does this advocacy initiative empower students, teachers, or community members? Explain in the context of human and social capital.
After school programs are critical to children and families. In communities today, 11.3 million children take care of themselves after the school day ends. Afterschool Alliance empowers the community, families, and the students because Afterschool Alliance's Ambassador program identifies providers and advocates that work every day to keep the kids safe, and inspire children to learn and help working families. They know firsthand the barriers and benefits that communities face in making after school available to all children. Their advocacy is increasing human capital by informing the schools and community of the student success and necessity for after school programs. In the context of social capital, their advocacy is building bridges with families, school districts, teachers, and students using these programs to connect them all. Also working with other students and adults during these programs creates social capital.
5. What aspects of advocacy initiatives can be improved or pursued?
10.2 million children are in after school programs but the parents of another 19.4 million say their children would participate in after school if a program were available. To improve this program, I would like to see every school offer an after school program. This is a long term goal that will take time and support, but overall is I think it is achievable. It is important that all students are safe, protected, and secure after the daily school hours.

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* Stand for Children:

1. What is the organization's advocacy goal? What are specific education and/or social justice issues addressed?

Their advocacy goal is to advocate for all children to have better and equal opportunities to an education. They work on levels of the family, policy and electoral work through engaging family, starting national and state campaigns hoping to create better school environment for students, and educate voters about candidates who are committed to improving the public education system. Some specific education issues they focus on are literacy and successful high school career and transition to higher education. The social justice issue that they are working on is inequality in access to state and local funding.
2. What educational or social policy or issue inspire their advocacy?
It started with the movement of advocacy for children issues following the Stand for Children rally in 1996, but they shifted their focus to working specifically on funding for public schools due to more budget cuts and from the rising concerns of parents and community about the quality of the public education.
3. How do school teachers, social workers, counselors, or advocates partner with the community?
Stand for Children do this through working with engaged parents who are interested in learning about how to support their children success in school and be more involved in increasing their children's achievements. Furthermore, they partner with states and districts and local experts to find what needs should be met and create movements and campaigns to fill in those needs.
4. How does this advocacy initiative empower students, teachers, or community members? Explain in the context of human and social capital.

This empowers the community and the children through empowering parents (who are also voters) to make better decisions regarding their child's education and educating them on how to give momentum to the educational policy that they would like to see in their states. In the context of human capital, their advocacy is focusing on educating and increasing human capital in terms of educating them about current issues and providing them skills to advocate for their own children through family organizing and mobilizing . In the social capital sense, it is connecting the family level to the policy level by improving bridges and linkages among people from different communities, occupations, and fields together through advocating for the same goal: better educational system and more funding.
5. What aspects of advocacy initiatives can be improved or pursued?

I would like to see the students are also being involved in the conversations about how they could be best supported in school. Although these students are only in elementary school, I think it is important to teach them early on (maybe in simple ways, through art and storytelling) about children issues and social justice issues, and encourage them to have a voice in how adults can best support them. Furthermore, they only have reading as their main skill focus. I would like to see a further expansion to other subjects such as STEM, with the focus on female students, to address the lack of STEM support in school for girls.

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*NewSchools
1. What is the organization's advocacy goal? What are specific education and/or social justice issues addressed?
Their goal is to invest funds they receive in people who are having new and exciting contributions to education especially when it applies to underprivileged groups.  They address many issues through their funding but tow they focus on are issues with funding, and addressing underprivileged groups especially in ways that they see to diversify education.

2. What educational or social policy or issue inspire their advocacy?
They are inspired by venture capital groups that fund entrepreneurs that they think will succeed in the future, except they do this in education with teachers and other educators they think can have a major impact. They generally want to grow the overall success of students by giving them the best educators and ideas to work with.

3.How do school teachers, social workers, counselors, or advocates partner with the community?
This program sponsors numerous groups that partner with the community in all of these jobs. One of them I specifically looked at was focused on teachers helping elderly members of the community, especially those of color, and educating them to allow them to feel more comfortable in community leadership roles.

4. How does this advocacy initiative empower students, teachers, or community members? Explain in the context of human and social capital.
It empowers all of these groups by giving them money but making sure that they have the supports to be able to grow the best that they can. They are a strong foundation that gives them the classes and intellectual support along with the monetary support they provide. They build the human capital by giving
the people who have the skills to be great leaders. The social capital is built one through bridges between educators who are working together on this. NewSchools connects people from all across the country with similar ideas to work together for the greater good. On the ground level of many of the schools and projects they support create binds between the students they focus on issues that help build community especially between underrepresented groups. Finally as far as linkages they help this by making as many students comfortable with strongly interacting with people with higher social capital.

5. What aspects of advocacy initiatives can be improved or pursued?
They could increase their influence over more fields due to they have a specifically have many groups that focus on stem fields. Then they could also increase their influence over more schools. But they also could grow on the intellectual side of helping these programs since some of them are mainly financially.

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1. Goal/SJ
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP): Raise awareness, fund research, provide resources to those affected by suicide.
Public Impact: Improve K-12 education for all, especially URM students. Engage in cycle of  KNOWLEDGE    •    SOLUTIONS    •    DESIGN    •    IMPLEMENTATION    •    EVALUATION    •    COMMUNICATION
2. Ed/Social Policy or Issue
AFSP: Varies of educational programs are implanted, aiming to teach school, workplace, and community how to prevent suicide. Advocates made suicide prevention priority.
Public Impact: Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Believes that teacher/admin quality improves quality of education.
3. Community Partnership
AFSP: The education programs connected teachers, social workers, counselor all together within the community. Penetrating the importance of prevention into the community. The ISP program provides a platform for those individuals who are at risk in the community, allowing them to be connected and be treated.
Public Impact: Works with teachers and education organizations (public, private, non-profit), Maintains strong social media presence
4. Stakeholders Empowerment
AFSP: AFSP is a research based organization providing professional suicide prevention for those individuals who are at risk. The professional counselor partnered with school teachers and social workers, offering professional help. Students, teachers, and parents are trained through education program 'more than sad' to be smart about mental health. The bonds, bridges, and linkages are developed through the big network and advocacy programs of this organization.
Public Impact: Facilitates teacher and principal professional development and leadership training, promotes cases on how technology can be used effectively by students and teachers, addresses needs of low performing school (turnarounds),  provides advice on student-based budgeting and budget reallocation so teacher can be paid more, strengthens and improves charter school management, improves T&L through their Opportunity Culture program, strengthens teachers as multi-classroom leaders thus improving their human capital (prof ed and pay) and widening their social capital (bonds, bridges, and linkages)
5. Areas for Improvement
AFSP: Empower more advertisement, create a bigger network in order to raise public's awareness.
Public Impact: Engage in student empowerment and learning assessment, build linkages with parents and community stakeholders

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1. What is the organization's advocacy goal? What are specific education and/or social justice issues addressed?

1. Protecting children and to advance the social and emotional behavior of children of all ethnic groups.

2. What educational or social policy or issue inspire their advocacy?

1. The American Disability Act inspires their advocacy through the way that they are focused on creating equal opportunity for all people.

3. How do school teachers, social workers, counselors, or advocates partner with the community?

1. The focus is on strengthening teachers' classroom management strategies and promoting children's proposal behavior school readiness and reducing classroom aggression.

4. How does this advocacy initiative empower students, teachers, or community members? Explain in the context of human and social capital.

1. The offer home visits for students and parents and through this they are able to focus on the whole child, in the way that by not only focusing on the student, the parents are able to set a good example for them. They work with the teachers, who can also do trainings to improve overall classroom management.

5. What aspects of advocacy initiatives can be improved or pursued?

1. Making programs and materials more readily available both monetarily, they can also make leadership materials more available for teachers and parents.