Advocacy in the human services advocacy is needed now more than ever opportunities to engage in advocacy have increased due to changes at the federal level which are relegating more and more. Mark ezell advocacy in the human services belmont ca brooks cole 2001 4350 paperback many social work historians have stressed the contribution the profession has made to political advocacy some of the pro fessions founders such as jane addams in the united states and beatrice webb in britain were tireless in their efforts to promote. Nihilist the definition of advocacy in general is broad in human service and social nor practice advocacy is essentially the process of protecting human rights or to change discriminatory or abusive treatment to the vulnerable whether working with an individual or a group corey corey callahan 1998. Advocacy is needed now more than ever opportunities to engage in advocacy have increased due to changes at the federal level which are relegating more and more human service funding and decision making to the state and local level. This definition emerges from the fact that advocacy emerges from the concept of defense support or acting on behalf of other individuals the main purpose of advocacy in human services is to promote social justice through eliminating obstacles or social ills that are brought