Cranford High School · Service Learning Action Plan

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Action Plan Form Civic Engagement Project

Part One - Defining Your Chosen Issue

1) State the problem you are trying to address clearly and concisely.

2) Explain the importance of this problem and the need to deal with it by answering the following questions.
a. How serious is the problem?

b. How widespread is the problem?

c. How urgent is the need to address the problem?

3) Is there already a public policy that deals with this problem?
a. If YES, what type of policy is it, and why don't you feel it is effective?

b. If NO, why do you think that no policy has been created to address this problem?

4) What group or government agency should be responsible for dealing with the problem? Why?

5) Who are the major individuals, groups, or organizations taking sides on the problem?

a. What is their interest in the problem?

b. What solutions have been suggested?

c. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these solutions?

Part Two - Explaining Your Action Plan

In order to try and make a difference in your local, state, or national community, you will need to have a plan. Use the prompts below to explain the details of your plan to address the problem you discussed in Part One. Please be as specific as possible.

1) The main activities of my plan are

2) Influential individuals and groups who might be willing to support my proposed changes are

3) To win their support I can

4) Influential government officials and/or agencies that might be willing to support my proposed changes are

5) I can gain their support by

Please attach a separate sheet of paper listing all of the sources you consulted in the following format:

For book, newspaper, or magazine sources, please use the standard MLA Works Cited format.

For internet sources:
" Identify the website where you found the information.
o Name of website and organization sponsoring it
o URL address of the site
o Author (if noted) of the information that is posted
o Date the information was posted