Advocacy Message Development

Activity Guide 2

GROUP ACTIVITY

Fill-up the table below as you create your advocacy message. Follow the steps presented in the
recorded lecture.
1. What your identified issue/ problem

Problem and WHY Overall advocacy Goal/ ACTION

WIN

Smoking of cigarettes - Educate the

among teenagers - to decrease the teenagers on
number of what are the
- Increased number students causes of
of young people smoking smoking
having cigarettes - Encourage
respiratory and having a your teen to
disease/illnesses decrease in avoid people,
and decreased respiratory places and
physical fitness, disease/illnesses activities that
it also has an linked to he or she links
potential effects smoking by 2022 with smoking.
on their lungs - Cooperate and
and its function. coordinate with
the admins and
staffs to post
“NO
SMOKING”
signages
- School
Guidance and
Clinic
Counselling

2. Who is your target audience? Identify their values and core concerns.
Parents and Teachers - concern about healthy Lifestyle of the youth > welfare of all the teenagers
3. Make your message box

Healthy Lifestyle of Youth

Knowledge gap:
Vision - Younger adolescent are
- Students who smoke susceptible into believing that
cigarettes will be light and intermittent smoking
reduced and will have a are not harmful.
healthier lifestyle by the -
end of 2022

Ask (Action)

- Educate teenagers about the risk of

smoking
- Post “NO SMOKING” signs around the area
-