Activity 4: My Advocacy
Advocacy is about influencing people in order to bring about change. You are the
community’s youth ambassador, and you are going to take action to improve some
of the unhealthy problems in the community. In column 1, make a list of issues
concerning the health of the community; in the column 2, write the possible
solutions; and in column 3, rank how easy they would be to fix. Also,
emphasized the most interested advocacy.
Answer:
Advocacy is about influencing people in order to bring about change. You are the community’s youth ambassador, and you are going to take action to improve some of the unhealthy problems in the community.
What are community issues?
Community Issues are problems or worries that a group (city, area, or other community groups) believes it can address.
Bullying in the hallways, rubbish on the streets, individuals in need of food, and animals in need of aid were all concerns that came up from time to time. These are only a few examples of community problems; there are plenty more.
Individual, societal, and national priorities all revolve around health. The elements that influence our health are discussed frequently at family, at the workplace, at school, and in places of religion. Child abuse or neglect, a lack of high-quality medical care, personal conduct, viruses/bacteria, stress, and pollution all enhance the chance of disease and premature mortality.
What is advocacy?
Advocacy is the process of assisting someone in having their voice heard. It’s a service that aims to assist people in understanding their rights and expressing their opinions.
1. Unhealthy issue in the community: Access to healthcare
Action: As a youth ambassador, some of the actions that I can do to help address the health care concerns is to provide easy access to hotlines and contact numbers of clinics, hospitals, and public medical facilities, barangay, and community nurses. In this way, any concern about health will be easily addressed if we have easy access to connections in health care facilities
Rank: Medium (This is on the medium rank because pandemic really makes health care facilities loaded)
2. Unhealthy issue in the community: Mental Health
Action: Our mental health has a significant impact on our overall happiness. As a result, it stands to reason that mental health, like physical health, requires attention and maintenance. Finding a feeling of community is one approach to keep things going. Community can be defined in a variety of ways, but at its most basic level, the community is all about connection. Community is a concept, not just an entity or a group of individuals. It’s a sense of belonging, of being accepted for who you are, and of being accepted. As a youth ambassador, I will be asking for the help of experts on the matter to form groups that can be met online or face-to-face for a consult. Easier access to people who can help our concerns will eliminate the fact that people are afraid to seek help. In addition, I could manage to have posters across the barangay giving information of the groups and professionals that they can easily contact when they are having problems in terms of their mental health.
Rank: Medium
3. Unhealthy issue in the community: Environmental Quality
Action: I will give importance to proper waste disposal. I will post announcements in the form of posters so that people can be reminded about them. I will also initiate having a poster-making contest about this so that people in the community will have an involvement in this.
Rank: Medium
Also, emphasized the most interesting advocacy.
Among the three, I would really love to advocate the environmental quality in our community. It will help people feel more relaxed if they can see that their surrounding is clean. It can help boost their productivity and efficiency. Aside from that, people who will be joining in the poster-making contest can show their talents and creativity.
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Hope this helps! 🙂
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