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Dominick Crouchelli, Samira Amane, Vielkys Paulino,
Daisy Munoz

Questions:

i.   To ensure that the new policy initiative is not in conflict with your agency’s mission, what will be your first task?  Provide a rationale for choosing your first task.

Our first task would be to invite teenagers and young adults to participate in group meetings to gauge their needs and views. Materials in the form of flyers and pamphlets will be available for parents at a parent group separate from the teenagers group. This group will meet bi-weekly and will educate parents and teenagers on teen pregnancy and drug problems. The meetings will also be used to gather input for policy. Consent forms will be available for teenagers as well as parents of minors. Steps will be taken to ensure confidentiality to maintain trust and rapport with the population in order to continue a positive relationship.

ii. Develop realistic goals for each:

Literacy campaign - The campaign will seek to decrease the high school dropout rate, educate about the effects of unemployment rates, and raise awareness for STD prevention.

Morality development - Engage community members to empower them to make a change in their own communities and help them to understand their responsibility in their communities. Educate community members on the consequences of their actions. Ensure that both men and women receive equal information on pregnancy prevention. Inform community members on how decisions will affect physical and emotional development, long0term consequences, affect the community, and affect others.

Self-sufficiency - Empower the community to make decisions with autonomy. Empower the community members to be advocates for themselves as well as their communities. Provide community members with knowledge and concrete resources for pregnancy prevention and healthcare.

iii. Provide two examples of services that will be used to operationalize:

Literacy campaign - Develop a marketing campaign with educational pamphlets and other materials. Provide information over electronic communication to increase reach. Provide after school literacy programs. Funds will be used to print and develop materials as well as to hire staff to maintain programs. Staff can visit schools to provide information to students and training to educators.

Morality development - Provide free materials for pregnancy and STD prevention to teenager s, parents, and community members. School-based programs to encourage community involvement and social responsibility. Maintain community garden through volunteerism to provide discount produce to stress community involvement and social responsibility as well as to raise a small amount of funding.

Self-sufficiency - Provide referrals to community members to seek out their own services as they see fit to encourage autonomy in care and resource access. Provide options to find outside information to encourage further self-informed research. The community garden will also continue to be a community-maintained resource to provide food for the community as well as to have an active role in raising governmental funds.

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Group #3 Scribe: Endia Tyishia, Karine, Marcella

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Group #3 Scribe: Endia Tyishia, Karine, Marcella

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Questions:

i.   To ensure that the new policy initiative is not in conflict with your agency’s mission, what will be your first task?  Provide a rationale for choosing your first task.

First task: We would communicate with the agency to set the ground rules for our goals and what we hope to accomplish to ensure we are in line with the agencies mission and goals. Our initiative will be called "Our Children's Future" as we are helping teenagers understand their value in society and we are investing in their future.  Our hope is they also feel valued and they can become important contributors to society.

ii. Develop realistic goals for each:

Literacy campaign - Target high schools and the goal would be to provide literature and educational materials on teen pregnancy.  Educating teens on preparation for their future. Provide information on STD's, health and the importance of using protection.  It is important for tenangers to understand pregnancy is not the only factor involved when a person is sexually active but there are many other risks involved that can impact health and their future.

Morality development - Making good decisions, how decisions is going to affect you, the family, how to not judge others. For this initiative our goal is to introduce the concept of decision making and the impact it can have on their future and their children's future.  We will discuss issues such as generational poverty to help them understand if they make certain decisions that prohibit them to reach their fullest potential there is a chance they may experience generational poverty and their children will also be at risk.

Self-sufficiency - Workshops will help to prepare them for the real world; what does it mean to be independent? How important is it to be a role model for your children? what does it mean to be a contributing member of society and how do you take those first steps? These workshops will be facilitated by leaders in the community that can provide guidance and support.

iii. Provide two examples of services that will be used to operationalize:

Literacy campaign - Using Social Media to announce empowerment groups to support teens to reach their goals.

Morality development -Family workshops to have parents involved to encourage their teens to stay on the right track.

Self-sufficiency - Mentors will be introduced to provide volunteer work in their community so they can be more involved in having voice in their communities.

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Group members names:
Cythia Rasool, Shaquana Jordan, Cheslie Cerdeira and Mary Hegyi

Questions:

i.   To ensure that the new policy initiative is not in conflict with your agency’s mission, what will be your first task?  Provide a rationale for choosing your first task.
Review the mission/policy initiative so that we are familiar with establishing our own mission and developing a campaign. We want to ensure our goals work in tandem with the existing programs / policies.  Our mission is to define our mission.

ii. Develop realistic goals for each:

Literacy campaign -
Marketing literature to address the public on what is needed for teen pregnancy prevention campaign.

Show where the funding is going, where it come from, who our targeted audience is?

Ensure it addresses the community as well of developers.

Our goal is trying to advertise and show what our goals are.

Morality development -
We will provide a mentorship program, called “I Am My Sister’s/Brother's Keeper”

Educate teens on sex-education in promoting self-love

Working on developing a strong sense of self-esteem to ensure better life choices and sex partners. Consider cultural and religious beliefs.

Self-sufficiency -
Provide teens with information and contacts for contraception, counseling, alternatives for assistance when situation come.

iii. Provide two examples of services that will be used to operationalize:

Literacy campaign -

·       Develop a tri-fold brochure for distribution showing information on statistics, receiving education and toll-free helplines telephone contacts.

·       Create an ad for the prevention of teen pregnancy to post on social media, throughout the community, teen centers, and schools.

Morality development -
·       Develop before and after school program to accommodate more clients, to educate teens while at school.

·       Workshop incorporating both families and teens to work together on the needs and education and options.

Self-sufficiency -
·       Online survey, assessment for more education and assistance.

·       Encouraging teens to see their doctor for STD testing, pregnancy and being involved with their own peer education. Allowing these teens to work with a younger population educating on what they too have learned and passing it on to their peers.

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Questions:

i.   To ensure that the new policy initiative is not in conflict with your agency’s mission, what will be your first task?  Provide a rationale for choosing your first task.
1,Education: by educating them about the negative effect of teenage pregnancy to the agency.
2 assuring them of conficiadiality reminding them as social we highly maintain the HIPPA a us law that provides privacy standard to protect clients

ii. Develop realistic goals for each:

Literacy education campaign - causes effects and prevention of teenage pregnancy:
educating them through youth program example big brother ,big sister, leadership program .
1, sex risk avoidance program
2, choice of healthy decision making
3, teen program initiative

Morality development -
cultural and norms of the society e.g , educating teenager through culture belief systems and religious.

Self-sufficiency -
,1preparing the youth for employment
2, work shops to help them build their resume
3,public speaking and how to present themselves for interview
skill based education
hair dressing, capentary, plumbing ,
engaging them to be financially independent. e.g
by teaching them employment skills

iii. Provide two examples of services that will be used to operationalize:

Literacy campaign -

Morality development -

educating teeenagers

Self-sufficiency -