Correctional Officers Risk Factors and Strategies for Safety and Wellness

1) Provide a comprehensive reflection of your critical thoughts on the topic at hand.

Topic: Correctional Officers Safety and Wellness. From the recommendations provided in the article under the learning materials, which one do you believe will be the most feasible and effective? You can discuss more than one policy.

The Role of Grassroots Movements Related to Advocacy: Benefits and Challenges

You have learned in this unit that grassroots movements are driven by the community. For this weeks discussion, you will explore the role of grassroots movements as they relate to advocacy, specifically advocacy for children and families. You will also examine some of the challenges human service professionals may face with regard to grassroots movements and discuss how these challenges could be overcome.
Please respond to the following:
1.    Explore the role grassroots movements play with regard to advocacy. Share an example of how a grassroots movement would be beneficial when advocating for children and their families.

2.    Describe the steps a human service professional would need to take to implement a grassroots movement.

3.    Analyze two of the benefits of grassroots movements as they relate to advocacy, specifically advocacy for children and families.

4.    Examine some of the challenges human service professionals may face with regard to grassroots movements and discuss how these challenges could be overcome.

Reading Resources
1.    Community Tool Box. (2020). Section 1: Strategies for community change and improvement: An overview. https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/assessment/promotion-strategies/overview/main

2.    Community Tool Box. (2020). Section 2: Developing a proposal for change. http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/advocacy/encouragement-education/proposal-for-change/main

3.    Community Tool Box. (2020). Section 8: Some lessons learned on community organization and change. https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/overview/model-for-community-change-and-improvement/lessons-learned/main

4.    Howe, N. (2016). Grassroots advocacy 101: A brief guide for anyone newly involved in political advocacy. https://www.muster.com/blog/grassroots-advocacy-101-a-brief-guide-for-anyone-newly-involved-in-government-relations

5.    Kinkade, S. (2017). 10 steps to consider in launching an advocacy campaign. https://www.youthactionnet.org/blog/10-steps-consider-launching-advocacy-campaign

6.    Stachowiak, S. (2013). Pathways for change: 10 theories to inform advocacy and policy change efforts. http://www.pointk.org/resources/files/Pathways_for_Change.pdf
      Please review pages 2021.

Pollution; Ozone depletion

– Add more of YOUR VOICE to the original paper and each sub topic inside ( add your point of view to each subtopic on the paper like; what do you think are the causes of pollution, Increased radiations on the earths surface, Melting of the glacier, what are the Health hazards, etc)

– Come up with measures YOU would implement to control pollution. ( add to measures to control pollution)

– Add a more specific introduction about pollution and ozone depletion and a stronger and specific 2-3 sentence thesis statement.

Same-sex marriage

– WRITE AN EXPLORATORY ESSAY
– WRITEN FROM SCRATCH

-Use Details, Transitions, & Implied Main Ideas
-Use your critical thinking: Making and Inferences Analyzing the message
– you are to write an essay in which you explain your stance/perspective

Here some personal ideas regarding the topic:
– I’m NOT against same-sex marriage.
– I think we all have the rights to be happy and express ourselves.

I uploaded an exploratory essay guide, just to make sure that you are writing the correct essay.
You can referrer how the society have seen the problematic through the years.