Community advocate vs community liaison

The differences between community advocates and community liaisons can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 6-12 months to become both a community advocate and a community liaison. Additionally, a community liaison has an average salary of $39,899, which is higher than the $35,900 average annual salary of a community advocate.

The top three skills for a community advocate include community resources, community outreach and crisis intervention. The most important skills for a community liaison are patients, customer service, and home health.

Community advocate vs community liaison overview

	Community Advocate	Community Liaison
Yearly salary	$35,900	$39,899
Hourly rate	$17.26	$19.18
Growth rate	12%	12%
Number of jobs	36,520	30,431
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 62%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	12	12

What does a community advocate do?

The task of a community advocate is to provide advocacy and lobby for change or development within neighborhoods. Community advocates collaborate with a certain population like battered women or the deaf affected by environmental contamination. The advocates guide and assist on the hotline to make sure that every individual gets necessary guidance, safety plans, and resources. They provide crisis intervention or management with shelter residents. Also, they ensure confidentiality and legal compliance integrity based on corporate policy.

What does a community liaison do?

A community liaison is responsible for managing the communication between local institutions and community citizens. Community liaisons often coordinate with the community to talk about their needs and concerns, directing them to the organizations with plans on improving the people's lifestyles. They also assist in scheduling outreach meetings and fundraising activities to benefit the citizens, handling promotional events, representing an organization for human welfare to increase public awareness. A community liaison must have excellent communication and organizational skills, especially in solving community concerns and complaints.

Community advocate vs community liaison salary

Community advocates and community liaisons have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Community Advocate	Community Liaison
Average salary	$35,900	$39,899
Salary range	Between $29,000 And $43,000	Between $29,000 And $54,000
Highest paying City	Washington, DC	Washington, DC
Highest paying state	New York	North Dakota
Best paying company	Boston Medical Center	BlackRock
Best paying industry	Professional	Utilities

Differences between community advocate and community liaison education

There are a few differences between a community advocate and a community liaison in terms of educational background:

	Community Advocate	Community Liaison
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 62%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Most common major	Psychology	Business
Most common college	SUNY at Binghamton	University of Southern California

Community advocate vs community liaison demographics

Here are the differences between community advocates' and community liaisons' demographics:

	Community Advocate	Community Liaison
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 25.8% Female, 74.2%	Male, 29.5% Female, 70.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 12.4% Unknown, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 24.6% Asian, 5.9% White, 49.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.2%	Black or African American, 11.9% Unknown, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 20.9% Asian, 7.0% White, 53.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.9%
LGBT Percentage	11%	11%

Differences between community advocate and community liaison duties and responsibilities

Community advocate example responsibilities.

Manage social media communication including Facebook, Pinterest, and blog.
Provide ongoing case management and resource coordinator for individuals with special needs or developmental delays receiving DDA funding.
Provide services to WIC clients to promote establish goals and to reinforce positive results.
Assist the families with applying for Medicaid, food assistance, FIP, WIC, low income housing etc.
Authorize and monitor CCAD services to ensure that the consumer receives the services as authorized and their needs are being meet.

Community liaison example responsibilities.

Grow and manage existing relationships in assign territories with physicians, hospitals, skil nursing and rehabilitation facilities and assist livings.
Create a brochure with InDesign.
Create social media strategy: Facebook administrator, NYPL blog contributor
Provide nutrition, fitness and diabetes education to the community at large.
Construct online training courses in HTML using materials provide by instructional designers.
Design the web application screens for new systems using modeling tool like HTML.

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Community advocate vs community liaison skills

Common community advocate skills

Community Resources, 12%
Community Outreach, 9%
Crisis Intervention, 9%
Safety Planning, 7%
Social Work, 6%
Data Entry, 6%

Common community liaison skills

Patients, 19%
Customer Service, 7%
Home Health, 6%
Community Outreach, 5%
Patient Referrals, 4%
Community Resources, 4%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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