-1 Discussion: Implementing Solutions

Discussion Topic

Consider these questions:

• Are you in a position to influence policy?
• If not, would you like to be?
• As a professional in the human services field, what are your roles and responsibilities in addressing advocacy?

Reflect upon the groups and issues that you have learned about inthis course and in research for your final paper. Discuss other waysthat you, personally, might be able to make a change in public policy.Discuss how you would go about advocating this change yourself.Recommend a policy change that would impact you, a friend, a relative,or acquaintance on a personal level, and discuss why it is relevant tothe person chosen.