Western Governors University

      Western Governors University employs a three-step developmental framework to support you through your preclinical and clinical experiences. This framework also helps to ensure you exit the program confident in your ability to meet the needs of your future students and school system. This assessment falls under step one of the three-step framework. In this task, you will engage in activities that will go toward preclinical hours of your Early Preclinical Experiences requirements.   This task has two parts. For the first part, you will interview an educational professional on topics related to mental health, youth suicide prevention, substance abuse, or child abuse. For the second part of this task, you will identify a public place in your community (e.g., library, community agency) that offers resources to address specific mental health needs. As a teacher, it is important to be aware of these resources so that you can help your students. You will identify a resource available at that location that addresses mental health needs. You will then reflect on the connection between the interview and the community resources you identified. Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.   You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.   Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).   Part 1: Interview A. Conduct an interview with an educational professional in your community on topics related to mental health or emotional well-being, youth suicide prevention, substance abuse, or child abuse. Identify the following: • the interviewee’s name and job title • the interviewee’s organization • the date and time of your interview   Note: Do not include any identifying information about students or community members in your submission.   1. As part of your interview, address the following topics: a. Identify specific mental health or emotional well-being issues that exist within your community. b. Discuss specific resources available in your community to address the identified issues, especially as they relate to students.   B. Identify a state law that governs teacher responsibilities related to an issue need you identified in part A1a, including a link or other citation identifying the law. 1. Explain how this law will inform how you would respond to this issue in your future classroom.   Part 2: Community Resources C. Identify a specific public place in your community (e.g., Oakville City Library, Foothill Branch) where a teacher or student could find resources to address one of the issues identified in part A1a. Include the street address in your identification. 1. Describe a resource provided by the public place you identified in part C, including the issue it addresses and how it addresses that issue.   D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.   E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.