Social Change Portfolio Paper

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.