Engaging Students in Outreach as an Extension of Advocacy to Achieve Praxis

The objective of this paper is to present procedures for extending advocacy to include outreach and the development of praxis for counseling students. By extending Freire's critical consciousness theory, the authors demonstrate how counselor training is enhanced by service learning outreach experiences guided by reflection and theory. The authors present recommendations for developing outreach and discuss future directions includes the development of research that investigates outcomes for students and follow-up community impact studies.