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Assignment - Issue report of depressed people using other presentations

Description - Scenario - Depression and anxiety among teens and adolescents has doubled over the last 30 years with concrete implications for sufferers, including likelihood to graduate high school, lifelong success and happiness, and even their likelihood for committing suicide. You are part of an inter-agency governmental consortium deciding how to best allocate resources to address this problem. At the end of a three-day conference you have heard from several organizations making suggestions. You have been called upon, in your capacity as a sociologist, to issue a report of your suggestions based upon the conference proceedings. Although a sociologist by training, your opinions are your own. Using the NAMI fact sheet, the ABC News article (see Canvas), and the presentations described below, please write a 4-5 page paper as follows below.

Substance - Paper Organization: You should have an introductory paragraph that tells the reader what you propose to do in the report, why you are doing it, and tell us what you will eventually suggest. For the rest of the paper you should do three things:

1. Explain House's "supply-side" healthy policy approach, giving at least two examples from the presentations below with an explanation as to why they qualify as such;

2. Explain the "demand-side" policy approach, giving at least two examples from the presentations below including an explanation as to why they qualify as such; and

3. Make a suggestion to policymakers on how to address this problem. Explain whether your suggestion follows the supply-side approach, the demand-side approach, or some combination thereof. Justify your suggestion with a reflection on your own social values (e.g. personal freedom, equal access, or short- versus long-term solutions, among others).

You may choose to combine no more than TWO suggestions from the organizations below when making your own. You are working in a context of constrained resources that force you to make hard choices. You need not choose the same examples that you used to explain the supply & demand side approaches. You may also make up your own proposals. You may assume that readers are familiar with the presenter outlines, and use group acronyms when discussing them, but DO NOT assume that readers are familiar with sociological concepts. You are writing this proposal to a non-sociological audience.

Format - Your paper should be the equivalent of 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with 1" margins on all sides. You should have a bibliography in any standard format (MLA, APA, etc.). In-text citations should be "(Author, Year: Page number)." Page numbers should be included with any direct quotation. Lectures should be cited as "(Lecture, Date)."