The Citizen Advocacy Model is a short hand term that captures the essential features of an office using the Principles of Citizen Advocacy (link to page) and utilising the guidance offered by The Key Office Activities to make many good matches. The Principles and Key Activities have been designed as a result of many years of practice and refinement of what increases the chances that the matching effort engaged in by the Citizen Advocacy program is likely to be successful.

The CA Trust will only be giving funds to programs committed to striving to learn about and implement the Citizen Advocacy Model.

The reason for this is that in all cases where the CA Model has been rejected or failed to be implemented correctly, matches become impossible to make or those made, failed in a very short period of time. Such events leave protégés disappointed and further wounded by the passage of people entering and then abandoning them. Citizen advocacy is to be a means of meeting important needs, not creating them.