HSE 330 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
For your final project, you will imagine you are employed as a human services professional in your desired area of interest. You have been asked to prepare a
brief policy paper analyzing a particular piece of human services legislation and to make policy recommendations for better meeting the needs of your client
base. Using a specific piece of state or federal legislation that you have identified and researched in this course, you will assess the strengths and/or weaknesses
of the legislation in addressing the needs of clients, bearing in mind the cultural, social, political, historical, and economic context in which the legislation was
proposed. You should also consider how other similar legislation currently before state or federal legislative bodies might impact the legislation, and any legal or
ethical concerns. Based on your analysis, your paper should explain your organization’s position on the legislation being considered, propose areas for
improvement, and recommend strategies for building coalitions to support your position. Your analysis and recommendations should take into account the
various interest groups or stakeholders that may influence the legislation being considered, including the roles of media, lobbying groups, community groups,
beneficiaries, and concerned individuals and how political, social, or economic concerns may affect implementation.
The analysis in the policy brief should be based on an evaluative, comprehensive literature review focused on the identified social problem and legislation and a
background analysis conducted earlier in the course.
Prior to completing Milestone One, you should identify the human services organization you will imagine being employed by. Define the organization and its
mission. For Milestone One you will submit a background analysis paper on the piece of state or federal legislation you have identified for your final project. Visit
state and federal legislative websites to explore and identify a human services specific piece of legislation/bill of interest to you. This background paper should
cover all critical elements listed in Section II of the Final Project Document. You are encouraged to use existing television interviews, previously published
interviews, and websites from the sponsor of the legislation. You may reach out to a staffer or the sponsor of the piece of legislation, but this is not required.
Create a timeline showing the history of the legislation you are analyzing, including relevant prior legislation and major social, political, and economic events that
impacted the development of this legislation.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
II.
Background. In this brief introductory section, you will put the legislation under consideration in context as a preface to explaining your organization’s
position. Specifically, you should use the background analysis you have completed earlier in the course to:
a. Briefly examine how major social, political, and economic events and other legislation have set the stage for the specific legislation you are
considering. Be sure to provide specific examples in your response.
b. Briefly analyze the effectiveness of previous and existing human services legislation on the selected topic. Do the policies or programs effectively
address the needs of the intended beneficiaries? Why or why not? Provide evidence to support your answer.
c. Succinctly examine whether previous and existing policies address the human services challenge in ways that are sensitive to meeting the needs
of a diverse clientele and explain why or why not. Provide evidence to support your answer.
d. Argue for why is it particularly urgent to address the social issue in the legislation and any related policy weaknesses now. Your reasons should
use audience-specific language and be supported by evidence. Keep in mind that policymakers, lobbyists, and private sector leaders have
multiple competing priorities, respond to pressures from different groups, and have limited time. Your arguments will be critical to getting and
keeping their support.
Guidelines for Submission: Milestone One must be two to three pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA format. Use
double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three references cited in APA format.
Critical Elements
Proficient (100%)
Background: Events Accurately examines how major
social, political, and economic
events and other legislation have
impacted legislation around the
social issue and provides specific
examples
Background:
Accurately analyzes whether
Effectiveness
previous and existing policies
effectively address the needs of
intended beneficiaries and supports
answer with evidence
Background:
Accurately examines whether
Diverse Clientele previous and existing policies are
sensitive to meeting the needs of a
diverse clientele and supports
answer with evidence
Background: Urgent Provides well-supported arguments
for urgent action using reasons and
language appropriate for the
intended audience
Articulation of
Submission has no major errors
Response
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
Needs Improvement (70%)
Examines how major social, political,
and economic events and other
legislation have impacted legislation
around the social issue, but analysis
is inaccurate or does not provide
specific examples
Analyzes whether previous and
existing policies effectively address
the needs of intended beneficiaries,
but assessment is inaccurate or is
not supported with evidence
Examines whether previous and
existing policies are sensitive to
meeting the needs of a diverse
clientele, but analysis is inaccurate
or is not supported with evidence
Provides well-supported arguments
for urgent action, but reasons and
language are inappropriate for the
intended audience
Submission has major errors related
to citations, grammar, spelling,
syntax, or organization that
negatively impact readability and
articulation of main ideas
Not Evident (0%)
Does not examine major social,
political, and economic events and
other legislation around the social
issue
Value
20
Does not analyze whether previous
and existing policies effectively
address the needs of intended
beneficiaries
20
Does not examine whether previous
and existing policies are sensitive to
meeting the needs of a diverse
clientele
20
Does not provide well-supported
arguments for urgent action
20
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization that
prevent understanding of ideas
20
Earned Total
100%
Module 2
Daniel McAlister
SNHU
Social Change Advocacy and Legislative Policy
Importance of advocacy at South Carolina and Greenwood community levels
Advocacy concerns with the activity carried out by a person or group with the aim of
influencing decisions regarding political, economic alongside social systems and organizations.
Lobbying form of advocacy involves direct approach made to the legislators based on the issue
which performs an essential role in current politics. With regards to the State of South Carolina,
the social change advocacy of the Greenwood community seeks to ensure its individuals who are
vulnerable to have their problems heard through speaking. The community advocacy also
provides defense and safeguarding of the citizens’ rights as well as having their ideas and wishes
considered while making decisions on the individual’s lives (Coombs & Holladay, 2018).
Greenwood community advocacy is essential in assisting individuals, groups, families, and
organizations to address their social needs and concerns. The support focuses on the social
change in addition to making the larger organizations within the region to improve their
economic and social situations with regards to the legislative policies (Baranowski et al., 2016).
Creating awareness to the public on proposed legislation
Making the individuals of Greenwood community in South Carolina aware of the
proposed legislative changes is through effectively communicating to the supportive community
leaders, professionals and other citizens who can capably reach out the individuals through
different campaigns. Involving the Greenwood community opinion leaders, clergymen, business
people, newspaper columnists and heads of organizations will influence a large of people to
promote the advocacy campaigns. Again, the community individuals can also acquire the change
advocacy information through the labor unions or other organizations focusing on the change
advocacy as they will offer sound advice to the citizens before any decision made (Wagner et al.,
2015).
Beginning and end of social change advocacy
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Social change advocacy begins with gathering the allies, then creating a coherent
structure to coordinate the efforts, building off the solid foundation regarding the issues, defining
the message, creating a reliable and effective communication network and cultivating the media.
The community social change advocacy ends with taking the thorough view and getting prepared
for keeping the changes as long as the issues exist. At the beginning of the social change
advocacy regarding Greenwood community, the advocates establish, maintain and give updates
to the allies through good communication approaches by the legislators and lawmakers
(Baranowski et al., 2016). The communication networking involves forming good relationships
with the legislators and their aides to inform the individuals affected by the change policy on the
consequences made with their votes. The social change advocacy within the community
develops and maintains the organized efforts that include the changes policy as well as getting
involved in active legislative support.
Public and private funding streams and differences
South Carolina legislative system involves the use of both private and public funding
streams to effectively manage the social change advocacy within the Greenwood community
(Coombs & Holladay, 2018). However, several differences exist between the private and public
sector organization-building legislative processes within the state. Public sector funding focuses
on supporting the nation individuals as well as taking care of their interests while private sector
fundamentally concerned with the creation of funding strategies to enable them to earn profits
without considering the attention the community individuals will receive. The public funding
sector also has a delay in the procurement process thus cannot adequately address the
emergencies that may be required by the social change advocacy (Baranowski et al., 2016).
Besides, the private sector has a quicker procurement process and does not involve several levels
of certification to offer to fund to the community social change advocacy. Even though private
sector has a speedier way of releasing the funds to the community, the public sector has an
effective mandate of looking at the citizens' interests through the publishing of the considerable
funds to the individuals change policies.
Other aspects of building support in the Greenwood community over social advocacy
change
The other elements involved in creating the Greenwood community social change
advocacy is through partnering with the global social change initiatives and creation of the
branded campaigns which aims at managing and developing social change advocacy towards
connecting civil society organizations which can capably create awareness to the public
concerning the changes and effects involved. The building of the support for social advocacy
changes consists of the creation of advocacy plans, monitoring as well as evaluating the
community social changes advocacy initiatives and marginalizing the community individuals to
identify the social change related opportunities (Wagner et al., 2015).
Reference
Baranowski, K. A., Bhattacharyya, S., Ameen, E. J., Herbst, R. B., Corrales, C., Gonzalez, L. M.
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strategic communication in social issues management. Journal of Communication
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Wagner, J. L., Brooks, B., Smith, G., Marie, K. S., Kellermann, T. S., Wilson, D., ... & Selassie,
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