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.

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.

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

What can make our community better? Could it be sidewalks or Community centers. Lots of things can improve our community. We all want to make the community and better place. There could be fun things to do or peace instead of fighting over things. I say entertainment actives will help improve the community.

As a living-learning program promoting community engagement there are many concepts that are simultaneously applied to the VCU ASPiRE community and the communities at which we set to impact. While building the goals of community engagement within the Richmond community and local areas we are also promoting and building the same aspect within the programs community. We live, learn, and engage with in both communities. Which suggest how community engagement concepts relate to the principles that VCU ASPiRE’s community engagement. There are several concepts that I find to be essential to community engagement. ASPiRE itself is a community engagement focused on creating positive change in communities. In the context of VCU ASPiRE, I find Community

On December 2nd, I talked about the benefits of volunteering for my persuasive speech. When I chose to do this speech on volunteering, I was very passionate throughout the whole time I researched and rehearsed this topic because I wanted people hear out my point of view on volunteering and why they should continue to volunteering. Overall, I believed that my presentation went well.

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.

This course can be of useful in my everyday activities of dealing with Nursing Home facilities, NYDOH and Department of Social Services. I will increase my knowledge of different approaches on how to distinguish issues for solutions to operational challenges and learn advanced techniques on processes I can use to enhance my productivity in getting our members approved for institutional

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

For two weeks I had been researching for a group project. We were studying the different organ systems in the body and my group had been assigned the Circulatory system. I remember thinking that this project was the most ridiculous assignment. What could I possibly learn about the heart that I did not already know? By the end of this project I found that the answer to that question would take a lifetime to answer. That was something I was determined to do. This group project had given me excitement, something I had never experienced in a classroom.

Professional organizations and discussion groups, such as LM_NET, are invaluable resources for the media specialist. Both provide librarians with a vital link to a larger professional community. I have been amazed by the diverse topics covered on LM_NET.

Every student's identity is unique, adding diversity to the institution. Institutions must provide support to multiple aspects of a student's identity, regarding student’s similarities and differences. During my first year in the College Counseling and Student Services Program, I was an intern at the Matador Involvement Center (MIC) at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). The MIC is the center where students go to get involved whether it is through clubs, organizations, leadership, Greek life, or volunteering. I was able to provide some sort of support in all of these areas at the MIC as a Graduate Assistant and providing support in Leadership Programs. During my time there, I was able to work with residents, commuters, student athletes, and individuals with disabilities. For on campus residence the MIC would participate in events that housing would hold in order to make us easier to get in contact with residence on campus. When working with commuter I did a lot of research on what other campuses were doing to best assist their Commuter student. California State University, Northridge has a large population of commuter students. Getting these students involved can be a bit difficult because of the commute. These students come with a set of priorities which make it difficult to convince them the importance of involvement on campus. During MIC presentations we would try to help commuters understand that there are multiple ways to get involved on campus, and it does

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)