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Campaign for Change

Explore public policy, governmental initiatives, and societal issues affecting the global scale to local communities. Learn more about water rights, education, discrimination, poverty, health, and more.

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Campaign for Change

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  1. Photo by Tay Yong Seng / Public domain Campaign for Change Eagle High School

  2. Public Policy vs. Issues Public Policy • Courses of action, regulatory measures, laws, and funding priorities concerning a given problem (issue) in society • Initiated by a governmental entity, or its representatives. • Examples: • Constitutions • Legislative acts (laws) • Judicial decisions Issues • An immediate and unsettled topic or problem in society • Scale: Can be global, national, statewide, and/or local • Can be discussed or addressed by private individuals/groups and through enacting policy • Examples: • See following slides

  3. The Issues: Peak your interestThe following slides contain information on issues and video links on the right side*These videos do not encompass the entirety of these issues, and some are sourced better than others. Campaign For Change

  4. Issues In Society • Water Rights • Access to Food • Education • Discrimination • Poverty • Women’s Empowerment • Health • Hunger • Cyberbullying • Accessibility • Environment • Indigenous People’s Rights • Literacy • Homelessness • Violence • Mental Health • Nutrition • More Issues Exist Beyond This List

  5. Environment

  6. Water Pollution • Ocean Pollution • Deforestation • Invasive Species and wildfire • Air Pollution • Endangered Species

  7. Humanitarian

  8. Idaho Homeless • Homeless Students in Boise

  9. Access to clean water • The World’s Greatest Solvable Problem

  10. What Discrimination looks like • Gender Discrimination

  11. literacy • Book Drives • School Supply Drives

  12. Health

  13. Living with a mental disorder • The Cyberbullying Virus in Idaho • Addiction

  14. Nutrition in American Schools • Childhood Obesity In Idaho • Physical Fitness

  15. Disability: Invisible in the Workplace

  16. Public Safety/Law

  17. State & Local Laws • Seat Belts • Texting/Driving • Immunizations • Election Reform • Education Reform

  18. Gun Violence • Walk-out: Students and Guns • Domestic Violence in Idaho • Public Safety • Animal Cruelty

  19. The above categories are not exclusive! If you want to pick an issue outside of these categories, please ask your government teacher.

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