Lay out the forces upstream of your daily work, the decisions and rules and budget lines that shape the lives of the people you serve, and ask honestly who, if anyone, speaks for them where those forces are set.
First in the diagnostic, before you try to place your readiness or make any plan.
List the recurring problems you treat one case at a time, and for each, name the upstream decision, rule, budget line, or policy that keeps causing it. Not every problem has a policy cause, and that is fine; name the ones that do.
| Recurring problem we treat | The upstream decision or condition behind it | Who decides it |
|---|---|---|
For each upstream decision above, write who currently speaks to it on behalf of the people you serve.
| The decision | Who speaks for the people we serve there today | Honest read: someone effective, someone with no stake, or no one |
|---|---|---|
The silences are the finding. Where you wrote no one, or only people with no stake in the outcome, you have named a place where the people you serve are unrepresented, which is the raw material for everything the pathway does next. This snapshot does not tell you whether to advocate; it tells you honestly where representation is missing. Feeds the Advocacy Diagnostic and the Who Speaks For Them Reality Check.
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