Social Change Portfolio: Part 1: Scope and Consequences

 As you begin to develop the portfolio addressing a social change issue, you will have opportunities throughout to share progress made. For this paper, you are asked to address specific points in specific ways. Your experience with these will contributes to your understanding of consultation and to your skills as a practitioner. To get started Read the Resources related to the 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 refer 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. Note: For the purposes of this course, your focus is to develop a plan, but not to actually implement the project. In goal setting, consider what is truly achievable. A vast goal such as, “eliminate teen substance abuse in my community,” is unrealistic. Instead, a goal such as “increase awareness of teen substance abuse and identify resources and a plan to reduce teen substance abuse” is more realistic. Present a write up, to your Social Change Project portfolio with the completed “Introduction” and “Part 1: Scope and Consequences” tabs. Be sure to support the content in your portfolio with specific references to the Resources and identify current relevant literature to support your work, in an APA style strictly.