This document provides an agenda and objectives for a session on defining the scope of a policy problem. It includes a review of the previous session on finding key organizations, a presentation on determining measures to track the scope and reach of an issue, and a discussion of assignments and feedback. Participants are asked to share lessons from researching key organizations and define the scope of their issue through data on the national, state and local level for an upcoming assignment.

1. DEFINING
SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM
KNOW YOUR ISSUE
PolicyOptions Wiki

2. KNOW YOUR ISSUE
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
▸ Share lessons learned from searching for key orgs.
▸ Defining Scope of the Problem
▸ How to determine what measures to use to track the
"scope / reach" of your issue.
▸ How to search for data on the "scope" of your issue

3. KNOW YOUR ISSUE
AGENDA
▸ Quick Review What we covered last week
▸ Check-in on finding Key Organizations
▸ Presentation on “Scope of the Problem”
▸ Reminders / Announcements
▸ Feedback

4. KNOW YOUR ISSUE
LAST WEEK IN REVIEW
▸ Focusing on Key Organization First
▸ Finding Key People
▸ Some tips for finding key organizations
▸ Comment on Glossary of Terms post in BLC

5. KNOW YOUR ISSUE
RESEARCH UPDATES
▸ How hard was setting up your issue brief pages?
▸ Sharing how you searched for key organizations?
▸ What worked? What was hard? What surprised
you?

6. KNOW YOUR ISSUE
REMINDERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
▸ Zoom Schedule — 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST sessions
• Thursday, July 2: Past Policy & Program Milestones
• July 7 & 9: Current Policy & Programs
• July 14 & 16: Policy Options & Model Programs
• July 21 & 22: Interviewing
• July 28 & 30: Planning Your Issue Forum

7. KNOW YOUR ISSUE
ASSIGNMENTS FOR THURSDAY
1. At least one Scope of the Problem entry for your
national, state, and local information pages.
2. Continue on your local and state bureaus

8. KNOW YOUR ISSUE
FEEDBACK FROM TODAYS SESSION
+ = What worked? ∆ = What could Change? 💡= Key Learnings?
- more ready and motivated
- good to hear from others
- breakout groups, even short
ones, are good to have
- stretch break