You have been working as a probation officer for approximately 6 months now.
You have been working as a probation officer for approximately 6 months now. Your supervisor has given you your 6-month employment evaluation, which was excellent. As a result, your supervisor has informed you that he is to choose one of the probation officers on his staff of 45 to be appointed to a committee on alcohol use and abuse. This committee is being put together by the County Board of Supervisors. Your supervisor asks you to be part of this committee, which you excitedly agree to do.
You are assigned to address prevention and treatment within your committee. The committee is made up of professionals from various disciplines, including the following:
Probation
Parole
Corrections
Addiction
Substance and alcohol abuse
Social work
Psychology
Psychiatry
Pharmacology
The Board has asked that your committee focus solely on prevention issues relating to special populations often referred to as the hidden faces of substance abuse.
Choose 1 of the following populations to focus on:
The homeless
Veterans
Active-duty military personnel
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and others (LGBTQ+)
People with disabilities
Native Americans
Latino Americans
African-Americans
Asian Americans
From your research using course materials and outside research, identify 1 prevention strategy that you believe effectively addresses the needs of your chosen population.
Provide the following:
Describe your selected population’s unique issues that potentially underlie alcoholism.
Identify and describe a prevention strategy that is most appropriate for this population and how it would be implemented.
Explain the efficacy of the prevention strategy on this population (how do you know it works?).
Explain how you would go about helping this population.
Provide up to 3 scholarly sources, which may include the textbook and other course materials, and cite them using American Psychological Association (APA) style.
Please submit your assignment.
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