Select your Group Policy Brief paper topic and assign responsibilities for Assignment

Select your Group Policy Brief paper topic and assign responsibilities for Assignment 4.1.

In Module 4, you will write a group policy brief.  You and your team members will select an evidence-based policy that targets substance use or abuse in communities, states, or at the federal level. A list of potential topics is provided below, other policy or prevention efforts can also be chosen as your topic and should be approved by the faculty member. Contact your Academic Coach if you would like to request a topic not listed below.

Tobacco Policy Topics (Links to an external site.)

Warning statements on tobacco packaging

Regulation of flavored/menthol tobacco products

Raising taxes on tobacco products

Smoke-free public housing project

Smoke-free restaurants, bars, public places, etc.

Alcohol Policy Topics (Links to an external site.)

Alcohol taxes

Regulation of drink specials or wholesale pricing

Blood alcohol concentration limits

Prohibitions against underage drinking

Pregnancy and drinking warnings in restaurants/bars

Cannabis Policy Topics (Links to an external site.)

Legalization of recreational use

Cultivation restrictions

Price controls and taxes

Seed-to-sale inventory tracking systems

Warning labels on packaging

Additional evidence-based prevention programs can be found at the SAMHSA Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center (Links to an external site.). Please keep your topics focused on policy or prevention efforts, not treatment.

Instructions:

Connect with your group: Team members can be found under global navigation on the left-hand toolbar under Groups, look for the Assignment Group for this course.

See also these Canvas Guides for finding your group (Links to an external site.) and emailing your group (Links to an external site.).

If you click on your Group under the global navigation, it will take you to your private Group Homepage where you can create discussion threads, post announcements, and share files with each other. I suggest that you use the Collaborations function in Canvas to create a Google doc that all members can view and edit at any time (without having to email versions back and forth).

Complete this worksheet Assignment 3.3 Action Plan for Group Policy Paper with your team members to choose a topic and assign responsibilities.

Each team member should provide their preferred contact information (university email, phone, text, etc.).

Collectively choose a policy topic for your paper.

Outline each team members individual responsibilities to be completed in Module 4.

Expectations:

Please submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on Sunday of Module 3. Submit as a Word document or PDF file only in the format provided. Only one person needs to submit the action plan on behalf of the group.