Week 4 Reducing Drug Experimentation among Youths Strategic Plan Paper

For this assignment, you will research and preparea community-level strategic plan that addresses akey public health issue.

Potential topics may include:

• Using prenatal and infancy home visits toprevent child abuse and neglect

• Preventing falls in the elderly

• Reducing population salt intake

• Reducing tobacco use among adults

• Preventing risky sexual behavior amongyouth and young adults

• Reducing drug experimentation among young adults

Include the following in your paper:

Introduction:
- Provide an overview of the communityhealth issue as described in Part Awith identified causes and influences,including knowledge gaps.
- Detail the prevalence of the issueinside and outside the United States.
- Describe potential monetary costsassociated with the issue in the United States.
- You must include data as part of your introduction (images, charts, graphs, etc., may be included as well as written data).
Describe advance practice roles andmanagement strategies that affect change atthe community level.
Identify key community and social resourcesthat negatively and positivelyaffect theselected issue.
Identify changes or enhancements in community-related services for your selected topic.
Develop a strategic plan that could decreasethe prevalence of your selected topic.Thegoals for this plan needs to be specific,measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound. Include how your plan takes into consideration health literacy, socioeconomic factors, and cultural differences.
Conclusion:
- A summary of the goals and challenges
- An assessment of the outlook for action/progress
Appendix A: Include your community assessment from Week 3 as Appendix A.

Your paper should be 3–5 pages in length (notincluding the cover or reference pages). Use APA throughout.

Include 2–3 scholarly sources that are carefullyselected and appropriate to the topic. Referencesshould be current—no more than four years old.