As an and professional policy advocate, you must be adept at identifying social problems that exist in your community or in an agency or organization with which you are acquainted. Your selection and investigation of a specific social problem serves as the foundation for your process of creating and implementing a policy that addresses that social problem.

In thisAssignment, youwillidentify a current social problembased on your personal and professional interestsand consider its historical impact on populations, as well as potential steps for identifying a policythat proposescontemporary solutions to the problem.Your selection of a social problem andhistorical review of impactswill serve as a foundation for your Final Project Assignmenta Social Change Projectin the course (due in Week 10).

• Review Chapter 2 of the Jansson text.
  • Focus onPolicy Advocacy Challenge 2.4 (pp.3940)for websites and examples of different ways to think about the relationship between social problems and policy.
• Identify a social problemfor example, food insecurity, domestic violence, child maltreatment, policing, and so onthat youwould liketo investigatethroughout the course. This can be a problem that has personal or professional meaning to you. You will use the social problemas the foundationforyour Final Project Assignmenta Social Change Project due in Week 10(although, you will work on it in multiple Assignmentsthroughout the course).
• Review the websites listed in theResources for Policy and Advocacy Workdocumentin the Learning Resources this week.
• Search for andselect at least threesourcesrelated to the social problem you identified.
  • One source can be a government or other professional website.
  • At leasttwo of the sources must be scholarlyarticles or studies from reputable jour