Adrian Canale's Lesson : A True El Pasoan

There were a lot of touching stories throughout the book titled Evicted written by Matthew Desmond, one story that really stuck out to me was the story of a man named Lamar. Lamar lived in a housing unit owned by Sherrena. Lamar is hard working man, who lives his life in a wheelchair, and recovering addict. Lamar’s story seemed to have a lot of similar characteristics to what I might expect for someone to have a hard life.

The basis of our project was to raise funds and awareness for the HSOV. We wanted to reach out to as many people as we could so we can spread the issue of the shelters.

In the Chapter 1 of From South Texas to the Nation by John Weber, he discusses the significance of South Texas and its origins. The Wages of Development in South Texas and Northern Mexico is a crucial part of the makeup of how trends in Mexico during Porfirio Diaz's regime and how the Mexican Revolution affected migration and economic development in South Texas. This allowed for Texas to become the foundation for the creation of one of the most productive and plentiful agriculture. Massive demographic changes and isolated regions forced many people began to heavily rely on wage labor and land growing. These changes were the result of the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution because of many citizens finding themselves displaced due the war. Ultimately, this lead to year of chaotic change and war violence that altered the economic and social future of South Texas. The increased capitalization in South Texas spread rapidly in ranching lands into desired farm properties. This resulted in a booming economy and social tensions within Mexican-American farmworkers in South Texas. Overall, these changes affected South Texas residents which presented them with various struggles with the Mexican Revolution.

While being allowed to come into the camp, I learned a great deal about how the homeless live. This particular group was very self sufficient

A man that was poor, but hard working in a small city in Peru; a woman who had to see her father die at a young age and had to be raised by an aunt in mexico. This is only but a miniscule description of the two people who made me who I am today- my parents.

The two vignettes that I choose were titled “Research Matters!” by Stephen Gaetz and “A Shot at a Decent Life” by Jacqueline Kennelly. The first thing that I learned from Doug was how successful the Housing First program was when supporting those who are homeless and living in poverty. The Bosman Hotel provided on-site services that provide access to doctors, nurses, case managers, psychiatrists as well as, a focus on enhancing people's employment skills. There was an emphasis on the value of community building that encouraged the service users to be active participants within their community at the hotel. I agree that this type of Housing First approach because it respects the worth of the individual and values their contributions to society.

Andrea Ingram talked about her organization having two main problems. They have a crisis service, which has staff for it. They also have a shelter with staffing for that.

In the late 1980s at the age of 58 Elliot Liebow was diagnosed with cancer and told he did not have much time to live. Receiving this news he retired his job as an anthropologist and decided to spend his time volunteering. At first he began in a local soup kitchen but then began volunteering at four emergency homeless shelters during the winters that served single women in a small city outside Washington D.C. During his time at the shelters, Dr. Liebow grew of great interest in the matter and decided to use a participant observation technique to gather all information he witnessed and write a book to illustrate how shelters really feel from the inside. His mission was to get everyday interaction and data in attempt to understand and perceive

Another meaningful experience that sticks out to me is when I regularly volunteered at a children’s homeless shelter in Roxbury, Mass. for two years, and was reminded of the fact that the statistics we hear every day about homelessness are real people – not just numbers. Every child I played alongside,

At the start of my second year in the MAHG program, I had the pleasure to work alongside Gail Rosenthal, Maryann McLoughlin, and Sarah Albertson as part of a Graduate Assistantship and then as a student worker. My time in the resource center has not only shown me all the program does for the entire Stockton community, but how it reaches outside into our neighboring communities of Galloway, Ventnor, and Margate. I have seen how the center works with the public and the incredible achievements it has made for Holocaust remembrance in the school and outside of it.

The topic that I chose to do my research paper on is the foundation Eye Heart World. I actually became familiar with this foundation through a woman named Season Russo, who actually created and brought vision to the Eye Heart World Foundation. A little background information about Season and I; I grew up in the church. My Dad is a pastor and Season was actually a mentor to me when I was growing up. She always had the best advice and was always so kind and compassionate to everyone who met her no matter what his or her story was. I remember the day when she came to me and a group of girls and started to tell us about human trafficking (because 15 years ago I personally had no idea human trafficking still existed) and proceeded to tell us that

We will approximately be able to provide up to 100 showers per week and be on the premises anywhere between 7 to 8 hours or unless if there is no more people to provide this service for. After the day, we will directly head out to a local laundromat and immediately wash all the dirty towels. The rest of the volunteers will be in charge of getting the truck clean and back to proper form. We expect growth instantly, mainly due to the large homeless population around us. However, for the future we are expecting to purchase another truck and try to concentrate in another area of the city. Currently, our concentration will be around the Richardson and Plano areas, but we will definitely start trying to find other locations. Along with a future purchase of a truck, we will also purchase another diesel generator which will allow us to provide the same quality of service. If everything is going well, we would also like to start providing brown bag lunches after the initial first year. We believe this would help to brighten up their day in another way. We are hoping that the brown bags would not cost as much because 1 loaf of bread costs less than a dollar and some bologna, ham, turkey, and cheese should not be much more. In hopes of our brown bag lunches being a success, we also hope to partner with Starbucks, Chipotle, Panera Bread, and Chick-fil-A. These

The first time I visited The Gatehouse I felt a very positive energy, the house was very warm and welcoming, one will not feel like they have entered an organization that deals with sexual abuse but it feels like one has entered a house where a lot of children reside. I really like my placement this year, especially because it is something really different and I have never worked with this population. Everyday I am learning something new, and all the stories I am getting to hear are just really inspiring and beautiful.

Growing up in a community with a lazy mentality was a circumstance I was not going to let affect my chances of doing well myself. From the time I spent in El Paso to now, I’ve realized that this place is not enough preparation for the real world. It is not so much that our officials are lacking the work ethic and teachers are depriving us of motivation, it’s just the economics and the location of our being. This area known as “The Valley” is just another sink hole for many people but as for me, I’ve climbed my way out of the common thinking and onto a path that is sure to get me out.

CASA is a network of 949 community-based programs that recruit, train, and support citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to watch over and advocate for abused and neglected children, to make sure they don’t get lost in the overburdened legal and social service system or languish in inappropriate group or foster homes. Volunteers stay