Project: Advocacy Planning
Graded Assignment
Project: Advocacy Planning
1. First, print your worksheet, "Youth Advocacy around the Country," and read through the examples of advocacy projects and activities from the web sites. Circle the activities that most appeal to you. These will be your inspiration.
2. Now think about your school or neighborhood. What problems do you know about related to drugs, alcohol, or tobacco? Problems might be things like kids getting sick from alcohol or drugs at parties; kids smoking on campus; kids driving when they're high; too many alcohol billboards in the neighborhood; stores that are selling tobacco or alcohol to kids in the neighborhood.
3. What is the specific problem you will address in your advocacy project? (5 points)
For example, the problem is that kids from school are binge drinking and don't know the dangers.
The problem is teens around me smoke marijuana and drink without think of the harmful affects
4. Who is the audience for your project? Who do you want to educate or influence? Other students? Teachers? Local merchants? Your neighbors? Tobacco or alcohol companies? (2 points)
For example, the audience is all students at the high school.
Teens in my specific age range. (14-16)
5. What do you want to change? What is the outcome you are looking for? (3 points)
For example, the project would stop or reduce binge-drinking by students at our school.
For the teens to just basically know what they’re doing to their body and the consequences
For them to know, what they are doing to their body. I can’t stop their actions, that is up to them but as long as I tell them what they are doing it may affect them in a kind of way.
6. Now develop an action plan for your advocacy project. What are all the things you will have to do, step by step? (15 points)
Step 1: For example, select facts about the consequences of binge drinking.
Search the harmful effects. Get facts and back it up
Project: Advocacy Planning
1. First, print your worksheet, "Youth Advocacy around the Country," and read through the examples of advocacy projects and activities from the web sites. Circle the activities that most appeal to you. These will be your inspiration.
2. Now think about your school or neighborhood. What problems do you know about related to drugs, alcohol, or tobacco? Problems might be things like kids getting sick from alcohol or drugs at parties; kids smoking on campus; kids driving when they're high; too many alcohol billboards in the neighborhood; stores that are selling tobacco or alcohol to kids in the neighborhood.
3. What is the specific problem you will address in your advocacy project? (5 points)
For example, the problem is that kids from school are binge drinking and don't know the dangers.
The problem is teens around me smoke marijuana and drink without think of the harmful affects
4. Who is the audience for your project? Who do you want to educate or influence? Other students? Teachers? Local merchants? Your neighbors? Tobacco or alcohol companies? (2 points)
For example, the audience is all students at the high school.
Teens in my specific age range. (14-16)
5. What do you want to change? What is the outcome you are looking for? (3 points)
For example, the project would stop or reduce binge-drinking by students at our school.
For the teens to just basically know what they’re doing to their body and the consequences
For them to know, what they are doing to their body. I can’t stop their actions, that is up to them but as long as I tell them what they are doing it may affect them in a kind of way.
6. Now develop an action plan for your advocacy project. What are all the things you will have to do, step by step? (15 points)
Step 1: For example, select facts about the consequences of binge drinking.
Search the harmful effects. Get facts and back it up