Assignment Task:
Explain: State and Community Interventions. These interventions target social norms to influence behavior change, using coordinated and combined societal and community resources. Interventions can focus on building community capacity, awareness, engagement, and mobilization; coordination of state efforts, policies, laws, and regulations; and influencing people in their daily environment. These interventions cover a wide range of areas, and a multi-faceted range of interventions is desirable for this solicitation. All community programs are charged with bringing about environmental change in multiple settings, including worksites, schools, licensed tobacco retailers, multiunit housing, and public spaces such as parks and beaches. These community actions complement and reinforce similar statewide action through three types of activities: use of paid and earned media to raise awareness and educate the community and key community members about the tobacco epidemic; education of government policy makers about the tobacco epidemic to build support for tobacco control policies; and education of organizational decision makers, including tobacco retailers, healthcare organizations, school boards, and community organizations, for policy changes and resolutions. Need Professional Help?