Community Reflection Paper

This past two week were most dedicated to the final project, but we also had a guest speaker from the biomedical engineering. We get feedback for our design decision matrix and for our second project report.

Thinking about what to do for my senior project was difficult. At first I was thinking of skateboarding and at first I thought maybe that could work then, I remembered a good friend of mine did a senior project and introduced me to Arlington Street. People's Assistance Network (A-SPAN). A-SPAN is a organization that’s mission is to provide life-sustaining services for Arlington’s most vulnerable individuals through outreaching and building relationships built on trust and respect.

Select one organization you belong to, and analyze that organization in terms of the above mentioned five dimensions of work-related values. Refer to Tables 15.1-4 in the textbook for specific characteristics of each dimension.

Pastors have been instrumental in starting health programs and are sensitive to the needs of their congregation and the surrounding community of the church (Butler-Ajibade, P., Booth, W., Burwell, D., Burwell, C., 2012). Also, the members of the church have always utilized the church and the pastor for spiritual guidance, social needs, and health support or assistance (Ford, 2013). Pastors are also aware of the needs of their community and the community is willing to listen to them viewing them as spiritual leaders as well as educators (Ford 2013).

We will use two different types of primary research to help aid in the creation of our video. First, we will research videos containing reenactments of community conferencing which can facilitate ideas to extrapolate from to make a video of our own. It is important to analyze the videos to see if there is a certain technique that can be used to accurately depict community conferencing. Also, we will look to see which videos are more popular and analyze what they do differently so that a video we make will gain high popularity as well. It is important to make a video which highlights aspects of the Key Bridge Foundation to make people want to donate towards this organization rather than other community conferencing organizations. Another primary research we will be doing is a survey to the students of the University of Maryland.

I have participated in many administrator level activities so far this summer. This reflection will center on setting up summer school for students and summer school teachers. Summer school is being held at several schools in the HCSD this summer. My school, Saucier Elementary, is one of them participating in the program. The purpose of summer school is to remediate any deficiencies and provide enrichment for some attending.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate my knowledge of volunteer organizations. Twenty years ago I began my volunteer career working for a relatively young faith-based non-profit organization. My initial community beautification responsibilities progressively developed into other areas of service including teaching, fiscal administration, and event logistics coordination. Through my evolutionary involvement as a multidimensional volunteer, I was able to learn about the inner dynamics of volunteer organizations: fiscal pressure, bureaucratic barriers, struggles to build and maintain community engagement, and the pros and cons of an exclusive volunteer labor force. For documentation I am including my letter of resignation (2014) as the financial

That is very interesting information regarding AMA’s stance on prior authorizations. My health plan recently implemented that a prior authorization is required, we were one of last health plans to put this in place. Yes, one reason is to reduce over utilization of services, it is also performed for the safety of our members (the patient), and also to help reduce the risk of the member or patient being stuck with a large bill due to the fact that the service may be investigative or not medically necessary. I am sure this process is burdensome to physician’s office and I am sure they have had to work out a new process to reduce any bottlenecks and ineffeciencies. I found reading the AMA prior authorization toolkit interesting, they

Each year 200,000 children are charged as adults in court according to the Open Society Foundations. Children held in adult prisons have very high recidivism rates, but only if they are not in there life! Children charged as adults do not get the help they need or are not taught what to do better. A couple solutions for this problem could be community based groups, focusing on their mental and physical needs, and lastly, having people to work with and tutor the children. These things could turn the children into productive members of society instead of repeat offenders and criminals.

Yes, I have read it. I thought our survey responses were going to be totally anonymous. If I would have known that some of our comments were going to be put in a letter and then posted on the board, where everybody can read about my disability, I would not have included that information. The only reason I put that in there is for future students who are younger than me who have disabilities. my study classmates figured out it was me and asked me to confirm it. I would prefer to come and talk to you in person about the issue before the final and not continue to discuss this on an open discussion

Sense of community “refers to a perception of belongingness, interdependence, and mutual commitment that links individuals in a collective unity” (Kloos et al., 2012, pg. 27). Within my placement at the Queen Street Commons Café, I see multiple instances of sense of community each day I am there. The café strives to include every person from the community in order to ensure that they feel included and a member of the overall community. Two elements of sense of community that I see most often during my time volunteering are membership and integration and fulfillment of needs. Both are seen through the program at the café called, the Speak English Café. This program serves to integrate immigrants or refugees to Canada into the Kitchener community by helping them practice their English through a welcoming, informal

During my time interning under the Security personnel of Niagara County Community College, I enjoyed my experience and found some things shocking about the job and the college itself. Throughout my internship I worked with many different people, with their own way of doing things. There were some who followed policy strictly, some who followed policy albeit less strictly, some who interacted with the community regularly, and some who hardly ever spoke to the community. I noticed that time and location is most likely the explanation for this. At the dorms Security does not often get involved in the life of the residents. There are few people who walk the halls of the dorms, and without a reason such as drug use or responding to a fire alarm the dorm security has no reason to enter a resident's room. At the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute, Security plays an active role in community policing, the environment is highly populated yet tame. This means that the NFCI Security does not need to focus on responding to problems and instead focus their time on getting to know the people who work and visit the campus, which helps keep a comfortable and welcoming environment. Over at the main campus, Security seems the most involved. There are frequent requests brought to Security ranging from unlocking a room, to helping a student jump start their car. In addition to these requests, Security also takes a more active role in making sure the campus is secured. Rounds are made

The Road Home in Salt Lake City is a non-profit organization that has been established since 1923 by the Travelers Aid Society. The main mission for the Road Home is to aid with children’s programs, and to help the homeless community in Utah which includes providing the homeless community with temporary housing. I chose to be a volunteer for the children’s’ book club out of all the opportunities offered to me. The mission of the book club at the Road Home Midvale Center was to tutor children from K1-K6 grade level from any type of working class and help them develop reading skills that could be helpful for them in the future for educational purposes on what a good book is supposed to look like, and somewhat know how the structure of a future essay or assignment is supposed to look like and for fun because the children I worked with had a lot of fun reading with me. There is eight sometimes nine or ten volunteers that show up to the book club for the road home and work with any children that comes through those classroom doors, all the children could use our help when it comes to reading.

For this fall semester, the school requires each students to be a volunteer or participate in helping children, I choose to help the kids in Saint Joan of Arc catholic church. I feeling proud of myself for being helpful to this community by working in the youth room. Working with children seems easy but actually it’s not. By working with them I have gained many necessary skill that would be important later on in my life. The journey isn’t long but I have learned a lot.

For the service learning project, I teamed up with three of my classmates to volunteer at a lady’s conference at Imani Restoration Centre church (IRCC) on the 16th of September, 2017. IRCC is a non-profit organization which is a Kenyan community founded that focuses on bringing African immigrants together to support and learn the things of God. Samuel Mwangi, the senior pastor of IRCC, said that through the counseling sessions that he holds at the church every Thursday, he discovered that most ladies go through the same challenges. Therefore, he thought it would be great for him to organize a lady’s conference, so that ladies could come together to share and support each other (Personal communication, September, 16, 2017)