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Advocacy in the Social Work context is different from advocacy in psychology, policy, or inter/intra-group. Social Work advocacy draws from the experiences of the individual, common rallying points within a community and the power of policy making to effect change for all groups. Specifically, direct practice, community organizing and policy are the focal points of this form of lobbying. Direct practice serves people on an interpersonal basis, while still working within the systems of the broader context in which the singular client may be a part of. Community organizing taps the will of individuals to create tangible changes in a community as decided by the collection of members. This common cause establishes the purpose behind community organizing. Policy advocacy in Social Work is the most macro focused type of change-making. It is often disjointed from the community or individuals impacted by the policy(ies) being lobbied for or against but are still relevant to understand and valuable in sharing the story of those effected by policy(ies). The principles of advocacy are rooted in the Social Work Code of Ethics. In order for advocacy to be effective at both transforming an agenda as well as being rooted in the competencies of the field. To overview the Code of Ethics and tie together how both act to influence on another it can be broken into six components. These foundational purposes are divided into the following categories: 1.	Identify core values on which social work’s mission is based. 2.	Summarize broad ethical principles that reflect the profession’s core values and establish a set of specific ethical standards that should be used to guide social work practice. 3.	The Code is designed to help social workers identify relevant considerations when professional obligations conflict or ethical uncertainties arise. 4.	Ethical standards are afforded to which the general public can hold the social work profession accountable. 5.	The Code socializes practitioners new to the field to social work’s mission, values, ethical principles, and ethical standards. 6.	The Code articulates standards that the social work profession itself can use to assess whether social workers have engaged in unethical conduct. "Code of Ethics (English and Spanish)." Code of Ethics (English and Spanish). National Association of Social Workers, 2013. Web. 07 Mar. 2013. From these it is easy to see how direct practice, community organizing, and policy work tie together to act as a means for accomplishing the end to affect change in Social Work through advocacy. First, identifying core values such as inherent worth and having cultural competence with one’s client is the first step in establishing positive outcomes in direct practice advocacy. In Social Work advocacy, it is important to be mindful of the fact that each competency has its role, not only with the specific scope of work, like say, advocacy; it also has implications which extend to the subgroups such as those mentioned above (direct practice, community organizing, and policy). This is further supplemented by the intertwining of each of the six aforementioned components of the guiding mission of Social Work and its code of ethics.