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Content Review

Directions:

  • Respond      to each item. Each response should be concise and between 2–3 paragraphs      in length.
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1. After reviewing pages 375-386 in your course text, summarize how children’s socializing experiences relate to the physical, economic, social, and personal conditions of the community in which they live.

2. Communities can offer families vital prevention, support, and rehabilitation services. Review pages 390-396 in your text. Choose one example from each of these areas and explain why each is integral to healthy child and family development.

3. It can be said that caring communities “improve the opportunities for every young person, regardless of circumstances, to become a healthy, secure, educated, economically self-sufficient, and productive adult” (Berns, 2015, p. 396). From your perspective as a future early childhood professional, identify and explain three ways that a caring community can meet the needs of young children and their families, including those with the greatest needs

Determine a product offering using the marketing mix.

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In this unit you will be completing the first two sections of a Strategic Marketing Plan. This plan is to be based on your New Shoes Simulation company.

Marketing Plan Section I: Situation Analysis (Internal and Environmental Analysis)

 

Assignment Parameters

  1. Accurate description and reference of all concepts and theories learned from the course material.
  2. Practical examples of concepts that lead to a continuing interest in the topic.
  3. Synthesis of concepts and theories from other course activities.
  4. Well-organized, clearly presented work ( free from excessive spelling and grammatical errors)
  5. Properly cited sources using APA 6th edition.
  6. Ensure use of the assignment rubric, template, and guidelines (attached)

Assignment Objectives

  • Determine a product offering using the marketing mix.
  • Prepare a strategic marketing plan.
  • Conduct an internal and external analysis of the industry.
  • Conduct a competitive analysis.
  • Understand the marketing mix in order to devise a strong strategic marketing plan for an organization.
  • The internal analysis (company history)
  • Market Description (competitor’s analysis)
  • Current Marketing Mix Description/Situation ( Existing Product, Price, Distribution, Promotion)
  • The environmental analysis (SWOT- Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)

Marketing Plan Section II

  • Objectives and issues: at least 2 objectives (specific and measurable)
  • Marketing Strategy:
    • Branding
    • Positioning
    • Target Market (Market Segmentation)

What ideas and advice from experts will be effective in addressing the issue

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Assignment:
Action Plan 5: Advocating for Children and Families in Your Community

As you have learned in this course, societal factors and issues impact young children and their families. Both as a student of child development and in your future role as a professional who works with young children and their families, you have a responsibility to take an advocacy role in addressing these issues with the goal of improving conditions that affect children’s healthy development and learning.

Action Plan Professional Scenario: You have been challenged by a mentor you respect and admire to demonstrate your commitment to young children, their families, and the field of early childhood. Your mentor asks you to think about the many factors and issues that affect children’s healthy development and learning and choose one that you care about personally, examine the issue in your state, and then identify advocacy strategies you can use to champion this cause.

Before you develop your Action Plan, consider:

· What you need to know to understand the issue you choose

· What ideas and advice from experts will be effective in addressing the issue

· What you can do as an advocate to support young children, their families, and/or the field of early childhood

Follow these steps to create your Action Plan:

1. What You Need to Know: Learning About an Issue of Concern

There are many issues of concern to those who care about the rights and needs of young children and their families. Below are two issues and related articles/Web sites, including sources for finding information specific to your state. Select the issue that is of greater interest to you. Then as you read, take notes to help you summarize the issue and how it impacts children, families, and communities in your state.

As an alternative, you are also free to choose a different issue that you are passionate about and develop your Action Plan around that topic of concern. Include your sources for all information on the issue that you use in creating your plan.

· Issue 1: Providing High-Quality Child Care for All Children

Quality Child Care Helps Parents Work and Children Learn (PDF)

Child Care Basics (PDF)

State Fact Sheets on Early Childhood Development, Children’s Defense Fund
http://www.childrensdefense.org/library/data/state-data-repository/children-in-the-states.html
(Click on your state: All data relevant)

· Issue 2: Children Living in Poverty

Defining Poverty and Why it Matters for Children. (PDF)

Kids Count Data Center: Data by State
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/bystate/Default.aspx
(Click on your state: View “Economic Well-Being” indicator, and click on “Poverty” indicator)

2. Ideas and Advice: Checking Resources for Advocacy Strategies

Review pages 440-446 in your text and access any or all of the Web site below to identify advocacy strategies. Take notes on ideas that would be effective in addressing your issue of concern and that you personally could carry out.

National Association for the Education of Young Children. (2017). Effective advocacy resources.

Retrieved from https://www.naeyc.org/policy/advocacy

Build Your Advocacy Skills
https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/public-policy-advocacy/build-your-advocacy-skills-and-knowledge

Tools and Resources
http://www.theounce.org/resources/advocacy-tools

3. Taking Action: Advocating for the Issue You Chose

Combine the knowledge you have gained and strategies you have gathered to take action! Complete your Action Plan in three parts:

· Part I: Identify the Issue: Explain in your own words how this issue is affecting children, families, and communities in your state.

· Part II: Identify Your Strategies: List three strategies you believe would be effective in advocating for the issue you chose. For each strategy, include the specifics of how you would carry it out.

· Part III: Identify the Potential Impact: For each strategy, explain its potential impact on young children and families in your community. Set a goal for implementing each strategy.

As you create your plan:

· Choose ideas for which you have the skill and influence to implement now or would have as an early childhood professional.

· Write explanations of issues and strategies in your own words, to create a model that you could use in talking with others about the topic and encouraging others to be advocates, too.

Assignment length: 2–3 pages

What were the main factors that caused the flash fires and explosion? Explain how unidentified hazards can result in catastrophic events.

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Report Issue

Access and review the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) final report for the metal dust flash fires and hydrogen explosion that occurred at the Hoeganaes facility in Gallatin, TN. Click here to access a copy of the report. Write a review of the case that is a minimum of two pages in length, not including title and reference pages. The review should answer the following questions at a minimum:

What were the main factors that caused the flash fires and explosion? Explain how unidentified hazards can result in catastrophic events.

Do you believe the facility performed adequate job hazard analyses (JHAs)? Compare different techniques for performing a JHA, and discuss which technique(s) you believe the facility should have used.

Could improvements to JHA techniques have eliminated the flash fires and explosion?

What were the company’s responsibilities related to identifying combustible dust hazards based on the absence of an OSHA standard for combustible dusts? Be sure to distinguish between physical and health hazards.

How do you believe JHAs should be used in the process safety management (PSM) program? Explain how an effective job hazard analysis improves the effectiveness of a safety and health management program.

The CSB final report and any additional sources you use must be cited in the text and references provided in APA style