To Prepare:
Review the Learning Resources for this week as they relate to scope and consequences of an identified problem in communities.
Create a section in your Social Change Portfolio called Introduction, and provide an introductory paragraph about your Social Change Portfolio.
Create a section in your Social Change Portfolio called Scope and Consequences and include the following information:
The target problem you identified within your community. Select only one problem. This needs to be a public health/mental health problem that can be addressed through prevention.
Describe the scope of the problem, such as, the prevalence rates in your community, how those rates compare to national averages, and information about trends. Focus on local trends if available but if local data is not available, then describe national trends. For your project, trends refers to whether rates are increasing or decreasing or if there are other changes in the problem over time.
Describe the consequences of this problem in your community including physical health consequences, mental health consequences, social/educational/family consequences, and economic consequences.
Provide a one sentence goal statement for your Social Change Portfolio. For this week, you will examine the social-ecological model from the perspective of your Social Change Portfolio. You will consider how risk and protective factors are related to this model. Through this model, you can examine the relationships and complexity of a problem, and how the levels influence each other.
To Prepare:
Review the Learning Resources for this week and consider the social-ecological model when working with a variety of clients.
Create a section in your Social Change Portfolio called Part 2: Social-ecological Model and include the following information:
Regarding the community target problem you chose, describe risk AND protective factors at the individual, peer, family, school, community/cultural levels according to the social-ecological model.
Post a link to your updated Social Change Portfolio with the completed Part 2: Social-ecological Model
To Prepare:
Review and incorporate the previous feedback you received from your instructor and colleagues on the Introduction, Parts 1 and 2 of your Social Change Portfolio and finalize these parts for final review.
Review the Learning Resources for this week and consider Theories of Prevention related to a community problem.
Create a section in your Social Change Portfolio called Part 3: Theories of Prevention and add an applicable theory(ies) and include the following:
1 or 2 theories that you can apply to a prevention program to address the target problem you identified in Week 2 and justify why this theory(ies) is/are appropriate for the problem and population you have identified
Briefly summarize research support for the theory or theories you chose
Identify an existing evidence-based program for this target problem
To Prepare
Review the Learning Resources for this week and consider Diversity and Ethical Considerations as they relate to the diverse population in your targeted community problem.
Create a section in your Social Change Portfolio called Part 4: Diversity and Ethical Considerations
Conduct a literature review and/or a review of local public health data to identify a specific population (such as LGBT, ethnic minority, etc.) that is affected by the target problem in your community. Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed sources. For example, if your target problem is teenage substance abuse then your broad population is teens. Then, include the following:
Identify a particular subgroup within that population (e.g., males, a specific ethnic minority group, etc.) that is impacted by this problem in a different way or at increased rates.
Describe the unique impact or different rates of the problem among this group.
Based on your research, briefly describe 2 to 3 mechanisms to increase the cultural relevance of a prevention program with the identified population.
Briefly describe some of the core ethical considerations in prevention programming for this target problem in your community including stakeholder collaboration, informed consent, and confidentiality.
To Prepare:
Review the Learning Resources for this week and consider advocacy as it relates to your targeted community problem.
Create a section in your Social Change Portfolio called Part 5: Advocacy and include the following:
According to the last domain of the MSJCC guidelines (i.e., IV. Counseling and Advocacy Interventions), identify barriers to addressing the target problem at institutional, community, and public policy levels.
According to the last domain of the MSJCC guidelines (i.e., IV. Counseling and Advocacy Interventions), identify one advocacy action to take to address the target problem at each of the following levels: institutional, community, and public policy levels and further explain why each of these actions might be effective.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.html
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019, Youth Online, https://nccd.cdc.gov/youthonline/App/Results.aspx
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.htm
Patch Media, 2012, How Georgia Ranks In Number Of At-Risk Youth, https://patch.com/georgia/across-ga/how-georgia-ranks-number-risk-youth
Rawhide Youth Services, 2019, What are youth at-risk and what can you do to help, https://www.rawhide.org/blog/teen-issues/youth-at-risk
Youth.Gov, https://youth.gov/youth-topics/violence-prevention/prevention-strategies
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