Identify your selected healthcare concern in your city or state that needs your advocacy
with an elected official. What is the impetus and rationale for your selection? What is
your solution to this concern? Describe the model of policy making that you feel would
be best applied to your policy concern and the rationale for selecting this model.
Mental Health Concern
The health issue of concern within the state of Florida is mental illness. Mental illness is
an epidemic leading to delusions and paranoia with the possibility of causing harm on others. For
instance, people with mental health issues lack self-control and at times it may cause them to act
violently unknowingly. Every year, one in every six individuals especially, adolescents have
some mental health (Florida Behavioral Health Association, 2017). Until the condition becomes