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Question

This assignment is designed to help you begin thinking through the social change process. When evaluating the needs of the community and trying to move from where you are to where you want to be, it is worthwhile to take a moment to think more deeply about what it is you are trying to accomplish. For the purposes of this assignment, you will identify a community issue/need, vision for change, determine action steps and strategies to accomplish the change, and brainstorm obstacles you are likely to encounter along the way. Your paper should have the following headings and content:

1. Identify a Need- start by thinking about the community with which you are most familiar. If you could change something about it, what would it be? Describe that need and why addressing it would be important for your community.

2. Create a Vision for the Change - the vision statement is written in narrative form and is meant to be descriptive. It is written in present tense; in other words, you would write it as if you were walking through your community in the future and describing what it is like now that the change you wanted to create has become reality. Vision statements should not include attributes of the problem or strincludeategies/solutions for fixing the problem because these have already been addressed. Try not to use words like "will be" that imply something that has not happened yet. For example, "Now that the pollution of the water source has been addressed, the residents no longer have to worry about..."

3. Develop Strategies for Change - the vision statement is meant to inspire a collective passion, but without a plan for change, the vision can easily fade. Identify at least three goals that would need to be accomplished in order for your vision to become a reality (e.g., raise awareness about the issue, secure funding,etc). At the same time, think about the anti-change crowd, and identify at least three obstacles that might get in your way and discuss how you might overcome them.

4. Leadership Reflection- after you have put together your social change plan, reflect back on the leadership concepts focused on creating change and civic and community leadership. Discuss how an understanding of those concepts is applied to the process of creating your social change. You are welcome to incorporate other theories and concepts from the first seven chapters of the course as well.