Community Development Reflection

Civics is a Grade 10 course where students learn about our political system, how public decisions are made, and the entitled rights and responsibility for a citizen who legally belongs to a country. In a course like civics, students critically investigate local, national, and worldwide issues with a political perspective. One aspect of the curriculum is personal action on civic issues, by which means students are to analyze a civic issue and develop an action plan to address it. Through this, our class worked with an organization named DILA (A Day of Information for a Lifetime of Action), an organization that aims towards engaging youth in Ottawa by encouraging hands-on engagement in their communities, addressing civic issues that individuals are passionate towards, and to increase the importance of the democratic decision-making process. A DILA project main objective is to simply empower the young millennials, by giving them a chance to let their ideas, imagination, and voice shine.

There was such a variety of topics covered in this course and I wish that I had taken it in a classroom instead of online. With this online course, I feel like the material went a little too quickly. If I were in a classroom setting, I feel that

Crawford County, Kansas is very familiar to me; it is where I was born and raised and now, as an adult, it is where I work as a nurse. Barriers to healthcare exists in every community. There is a high amount of poverty in Crawford County that contributes to barriers to access to healthcare. Furthermore, Crawford County has several stakeholders that influence the health of the community and advanced practice registered nurse (ARNP) practice. In this assessment of my community, I will identify Crawford County, as well as prevalent health care barriers and important stakeholders in my community.

I did my community assessment paper on Bristol Township, which was located in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Bristol Township is been known to be one of the oldest communities in Pennsylvania. In 1692, it was once incorporated as Buckingham Township before the name changed in 1702 to become what is now Bristol ( Wilson, 2014). Bristol Township links the intersections of Route 413, Route 95 and Pennsylvania Turnpike, and Interstate 95, with traffic to and from the megalopolis (Wilson, 2014) The Township has been known to be a main transportation center for automobiles, trains, light rails, and cargo ships, nevertheless, boats and cargo ships continue pass through the Delaware River’s banks at Bristol Township and passenger and

I was going into the class scared because I have never took a women’s study course before, and it was my first semester at Texas Woman's University. I love this class and it has shown me a lot about women and about my own health. Some of the topic or video we have to watch open my eyes that our health care system is in terrible shape. I did not think that I would get the blogging right away, but I did and now I love it. I love the topics we cove and the book teaches me things that I never image before. This class help me focus on my health and show me the choice I have to make for the future to live a long and successful live.

I think the learning experience of this class should be more focused on applying it to day to day, and being an aspiring Physician Assistant, I hope that I retain this information and continue to build off of what I have learned so far as I continue towards that career. I don’t think that when I am in the health care field I am going to care about who discovered or named a disorder, but I am going to care about the symptoms, causes, prevention, and treatment. I find these parts of the course to be the most valuable in my learning

After discharging from the Navy I have worked in various areas but mostly in Community Work supporting those with youth and young adults who have mental health issues directly and various administration duties . I would like to proof read articles connected to The Young Diggers In the past I have performed similar role when I assisted in proof reading and copy editing while working in community organisations . The areas I focused on were ensuring that there was no punctuation or grammatical errors i.e. typos , the correct use of terminology or if there was missing phrases. I also assisted in checking the writing style and most importantly the overall readability of the articles . Interested in assisting in other areas if there is any need

It’s pretty hard to write a summary of the class when you skipped a lot, and I know I have and ill own up to it. I feel like this class had a lot of information at the front half of the class that is very important for every student to know, the information about the library and how to write an annotative bib. I found those extremely helpful because I never knew how to search for professional articles and find them so easy. Other than that I honestly felt like the class didn’t really pertain to me, myself being an odd ball and looking at a career outside of my major and outside really any ESAT career type. Even if I were staying as a Physical Educator, this class is built around the ESAT major and there is nothing wrong with it but I find

I was also happy to see and hear guest speakers talk about their experiences regarding different paths of jobs one can get in the health communication field. This was a really great course. I also learned it is much more organized and that effective health communications is important to educate the public with tools and knowledge to respond suitably to health crises. I am definitely going to recommend this for future

When I first heard about this class, I was an open major at the time, and was looking into Public Health, specifically community and behavior heath, or Health and Human Physiology. I’ve always been interested in health and in all the health classes I’ve taken in the past. I was into all the health problems that some family members of mine have and I wanted to know how to help them, through prevention, or just simply informing them about certain disorders and diseases. I took a class last semester, called Health for Living, and it was an interesting class and opened my eyes more to health issues and how most of them are preventable. That class didn’t help me enough to decide so, I hoped that taking this class might help me a bit more. Last spring when I saw that Fundamentals of Public Health was a course I could take, I signed up right away. I always knew I wanted to help people when I was older, but didn’t know how I was going to do that. I was hoping that if I signed up for this health class, maybe it would give me more insight on some careers in the public health field.

The city council member that represents my district (District 2) in McKinney, Texas is Rainey Rogers, who was recently selected as Mayor Pro Tem in June of 2017. With an academic background in financial planning earned from the College of Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado, he owns the McKinney-based wealth management and planning firm Rogers-Tate Financial. He has a long-history of community involvement such as serving as a missionary in England for a year, volunteering in city and county government, and was a scoutmaster for 12 years with the boy scouts.

I took a nutrition class last semester and i really liked it , i was thinking to minor in nutrution but I'm not sure yet. i agree with you health care system is very complex and copley this class will help us have a better udertsandig of healthcare systemm. Welcome and nice to meet you Mariam.

The Community Meeting, I attended was at First Baptist Church in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The purpose of this meeting was to inform residents of the community changes that the councilman wants to make in the area. The members of the church wanted to address some of the issues in the community and the positives of the community such as the organizations that are working to help the community. Three of the main issues spoken upon at the meeting was Crime, Affordable housing, and Health care services. The members at this meeting were members of the church and the community, nonmembers were in attendance as well. Ages varied at the meeting from about 12-75. Most of the members in the meeting were on some type of government assistance, low-middle income class families. The meeting consisted of male and female members. One of the topics were affordable housing. The community believes they need more low income housing apartments for seniors, individuals and families that are working minimum wage jobs. There are 12 homeless shelters and rooms are being occupied for rent in three of the neighborhood hotels by homeless individuals. The residents in these shelters are victims of domestic violence, substance abuse, eviction, and unsafe conditions in their apartments. They want to eliminate some of the homeless shelters in the community and put residents in some permanent housing programs such as LINC and CITYFEPS are needed for assistance. Homeless prevention programs are needed to assist

On Tuesday I attempted to participate in a Day in the life as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. I faced several challenges with identifying as a member of the community, both internally and externally. I found that the biggest struggle was that I couldn’t connect because I am not a member of that community. I also battled with my personal beliefs and how comfortable I felt based on my research and the basic understanding I know of the LGBTQ+ community, I attempted the impossible. With my work schedule being so extensive I set an alarm at every two hours to review what happened in the past hours and jotted down how the situation would have been different had I been a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

At Santa Maria College, we are educated to treat others with respect and to always help out and lend a helping hand to those who are in need. To show this in the community, Santa Maria Students actively provided volunteer work to organisations, in hope to build confidence, character and respect for others. This year I volunteered at Scotch College, and helped out a Grade 2 teacher with many different tasks, that would have been a struggle and challenge to achieve alone. Having my service here was a great eye opener to the how much passion and effort employees put into their jobs, to ensure the greatest possible experience for those who they help. So by learning this early I aimed to do the same for Mrs Fowles when I volunteered fro he during the holidays. At my visits to the school I was assigned many tasks, mostly helping organisation of her classroom for the new school year. Throughout the days at my service activity, I completed filing work, marking, cleaning and helped carry heavy loads of books, stationary, are classroom furniture. This organisation has been able to provide an intellectual and personal challenge programme in keeping with the best traditions of liberal education. Scotch promotes individuality, opportunity, equity and excellence. Their mission is to develop young men with strength of character, self-understanding, a passion for sustained learning and spiritual inquiry who will become active members of the global community. One of the principals of social justice that I addressed was that children may receive a strong education and are taught strong morals and beliefs. By having my own experiences in receiving an education I have learnt that students are in desperate need for a good, organised learning area and a caring and loving learning environment. People can often label the need for a good and proper education as not a high priority, however is not the case. Through my service I aimed to provide lending hand and help to address and improve this issue in society by starting at the college. By the end, I was pleased with myself myself that I had been able to really make a differences to Mrs Fowles, and that I was able to unload a large stress off her back. As Nelson Mandela once said