The focus of this paper is to bring awarnes, change, eduation and eduction through an agency
The agency’s that we
will be working with are the following:
Healingandjustice.com
& Dreamdefenders.com
Both are local agencies
in Miami, Fl
Also, the article i
would like to include is about Donald Armstrong a local Miami, Fl man who was
shot by police while having a mental health crisis
The Policy we want to
change is Police response to metal health crisis
Please follow all
intructions below:
ASSIGNMENT: Policy Development and
Advocacy Practice in Action Paper
[This assignment is used for program assessment of
competency)
This assignment allows students to influence, change, support, or fight against
their group’s interest policy. The project may address issues at a micro
(person in the environment), mezzo (organizational) or macro (governmental)
level of the policy.
For your paper you should strongly consider working
with a community partner to maximize the impact of your advocacy. Because you
will be selecting the policy to analyze and influence, it will be up to you to
find an appropriate partner to work with.
Paper should be a minimum of 7 pages, and APA
formatting, citations and protocols should be followed.
At the end of the semester, you will need to summarize
and present on the results of your analysis. What was the purpose, methods for
your project, what was accomplished, and what you learned from the experience.
The presentation should be between 10 and 15 minutes. (15 hours are recommended
for completing this project).
The following components must be included in the
presentation and should also be a part of your paper:
1. Description of the
problem/population
• Description of Agency, Program, and System Affecting the Problem
• Action Plan and What Worked
• Presentation
• Sustainability of Project
• Self-Reflection
Your guidelines for an acceptable project are based on
working with community groups by either joining them in their efforts to
influence a policy or attempting to influence stakeholders in the policy. This
may include community education. Examples of acceptable projects include, but
are not limited to, meeting with congressperson/group/institute, volunteering
on a policy council (city, county, state, etc.), following an active bill all
the way through and testifying for or against it, volunteering with a political
action group, engaging in research with political implications, present on
policy to group that needs it or fight against a policy.
All projects must have instructor
approval to ensure it meets community engagement standards.
1) Select a social issue of concern that is embedded in
historical trauma and impacts a vulnerable population. Engage the community
partner with this issue.
2) Identify a
trauma-informed policy solution (or partial policy solution) to the social
issue.
Apply the Policy Process Model from ColbyLinks to an external
site. (2018) or the CDC Policy WebsiteLinks to an external site.
3) Identify the various elements of your social policy
solution that you would include if you were to draft a piece of legislation.
a. What are the policy goals?
b. What are the forms of benefit for the social policy?
c. What are the eligibility criteria for the social policy?
d. What are the administrative considerations for the implementation of the
social policy?
e. How should this policy be financed and sustained in the long run?
4) Identity what needs to be amended in this policy to
address and reduce re-traumatization, victimization, and/or oppression for the
identified vulnerable population.
5) Discuss how this policy amendment will increase
access to care for those affected by trauma and enhance service delivery.
6) Identify some of the weaknesses in the proposed
policy solution. For example, what populations would not be addressed by your
partial policy solution?
7) Reflect on the process of engaging stakeholders in
advocating, creating, implementing and evaluating this trauma-informed policy
to assist the identified vulnerable population.
