Letter to councilmen of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY regarding obesity in children

Write a letter to either your city councilman, The topic of your advocacy letter should be any matter related to healthcare that you believe needs to be addressed by a change in local health policy, rules, laws, or ordinances, that you want your local representative to be aware of. The topic will be on obesity in children.

As nurse/nurse practitioner student what would you advocate to change as it relates to health in your community. If there is no policy, law or ordinance should there be one? National Representative should not be used.

Criteria for the evaluation of the Local Policy Issue Advocacy Letter: (See Grading Rubric)

1. Addressed and correct title of your chosen Local representative – 1 point

2. Local health care issue explained including statistics – 3 points

3. What would you like your representative to do and why – 4 points.

4. As a health care worker how can you assist the representative to make the change – 2 points

5. Supporting documentation should be included in APA format.