Estella Lopez's Case Study

Ramona Salvarez: I am a federal circuit judge, which is pretty similar to an elected official, since I was appointed by a democratic president. But, if there was a difference it's probably my experience level.

At approximately 11:47 am Investigator Cindy Hercules and I obtained the following statement from NYP employee Erica Colon. The interview took place in the investigation unit.

She began in Key West, Florida, her city of residence, in the late spring of 1998. Presenting herself as a divorced homemaker reentering the workforce after many years, she landed a job as a waitress in a family-style restaurant making $2.43 per hour, plus tips. (According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, the combined hourly amount plus tips must equal the minimum wage or the employer is required to pay the difference.) Trying to make ends meet, she finds she must take a second job, as many others do, and continually look for “housing equilibrium” -- that elusive intersection of safety and affordability in a location close enough to minimize the impact of the cost of gas on her less-than-adequate income.

My name is Selena Judge, and this summer I received the honor of beccoming apart of the ACS Scholar's Program. I'm currently a sophomore majoring in chemistry with a concentration in biochemistry. This week I recently received a letter from ACS that requires for the head of my deparment to sign an acknowledgement form about my presents at VCU, and the form is due on October, 14, 2016. Is it possible for me to set up an appointment with you to fill out this documentation?

Myranda Aguilar has been working in health care for 15 years and for the past two years she’s been working as a privacy analyst for Sutter Health located in Sacramento California. As a privacy analyst her duties are protection of patients’ privacy, compliance, and information security. Her responsibilities are to monitor and investigate any suspicious activity by taking a proactive standpoint against hackers, educate hospital staff on how to protect patients’ privacy, and ensure patients safety during their stay in the hospital. She works with elected board members of the health committee program she works for. One of the projects that she is currently working on is privacy auditing and monitoring where she tracks patients records to determine

Kenia Calderon has been an active leader since 2013, when she became vocal about her lack of legal status to improve the lives of the undocumented youth in Des Moines. Over the last four years, she has met undocumented high schoolers to motivate and guide them as they navigate the higher education system. Her fight for civil rights include fighting for low income families to have access financial institutions, access to higher education, and standing with street vendors as they fought for their rights at the city level. Kenia has lobbied for different causes that affect the most vulnerable in our city. She lobbied for credit unions to not be regulated like banks because these financial institutions have efforts around serving the unbanked

Sonia Arceo is an important part of the community of Vinton. A mother of three children and worker of two jobs is one of the chairmen for the Village of Vinton. Being the only woman out of the council she has an important say in the decisions made in this community especially for the women of Vinton. As said before Mrs. Arceo has another job other than being the chairman of the Village of Vinton. She works at an immigration shelter for unaccompanied illegal minors seeking a better future in this country. The immigration shelter helps reunify the minors from Central America with their family or sponsors here in the U.S. When asked why Sonia works for the Shelter she responds with this statement “I really love to be a part of this organization because I get the opportunity to help motivate these minors to become good and successful citizens in this county.”

Celia Hernandez had a rough start in life, she moved from school to school during her elementary years. Celia went to a whopping 7 elementary schools, but managed fairly well. She grew up on the east side of the Coachella Valley in California, the side that’s only talked about when referring to music festivals, agriculture, or lower education. The east side of the Coachella Valley is majority Hispanic or Latino population, despite her Latino background, Celia wasn’t taught Spanish therefore it was problematic when she started attending a Latino school. She found difficulty with relating to them as there was a vast language barrier between them, furthermore, through the years she broke it and found a place with them. Money was scarce throughout

In Key West, Ehrenreich did not do too well. She ended up paying more than $500 of rent out of a pay of $1,039, not including utilities. It was in Key West that she realized she could not “do two physically demanding jobs in the same day, at least not any acceptable standard of performance” (Ehrenreich 197). In Portland, Ehrenreich “came the closests to a decent fit between income and expenses” (Ehrenreich 197).

We start our story with a very fortunate, yet very homeless couple. They have been both blessed with their dream jobs but lack a space to call their own! The wife, Luna Hazelwoode, a theoretical astrophysicist has finally made her way through grad school on a full ride scholarship and has gotten a job at Drake University for her research and newly achieved pHd. The husband, Ezekiel Hazelwoode, has been working around the country with his welding expertise after graduating from Mid State University. He has been living with his parents up until now, and the wife has lived on campus. Now that they are married they want to find a place of their own which allows for them to focus on their careers and each other equally.

After the week she spended with her coworkers, she had gained information on how each one of them lives, “Gail is sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for $250 a week, Claude…two room apartment he shares with his girlfriend and two other and unknown person, Annette…lives with her mother, a postal clerk, Marianne, … , and her boyfriend are paying $170 a week for a one-person trailer, Billy, … , lives in a trailer he owns, paying only $400-a-month lot free, Andy, lives on his dry-docked boat, Tina, … , and her husband are paying $60 a night for a room in the Days Inn, Joan, … , lives in a van parked behind a shopping center at night and showers in Tina’s motel room.”(pg. 20-21). The survey that was conducted by the author through her personal experience demonstrated that her coworkers try to split rent in order to pay less and try to save money for the next payment for rent.

Juanita has come into the clinic because she is concerned with her weight and body image. She is also concerned with how her mother with view her not eating her ethnic meals. It has been established that Juanita is indeed obese by her body mass index (BMI) of 30kg/m2. The nursing diagnosis statement is: Obesity, related to caloric consumption and activity level, as evidenced by BMI of 30kg/m2.

Cristina is a client at blue horizon clinic. She has been coming to counseling for almost six months and her condition has improved greatly. Cristina suffers PTSD and depression because of sexual abuse she experienced at a young age and she also grew up during the civil war in her home country. Because of her recovery, her therapist is thinking she will no longer benefit from therapy and has a plan of seeing her a couple more times to help her transition. Cristina’s father was diagnosed with CHF and he is only expected to live for no more than a year, his condition is deteriorating rapidly which is putting more stress on Cristina as she is a full-time employee, has a young daughter and is caring for her father. Last week, she came to counseling showing high levels of stress and anxiety, she was extremely agitated.

Two images about kids sick, and a list of diseases will allow me to talk extensively about the consequences of breathing toxics every day around school. I will let the audience know that we try to protect our kids from dangerous people, from smoke, from junk food…, and schools are obsess about safety, but they don’t realize that they have the worse potential killer around schools: idler.

American’s deal with a serious challenge while looking for an affordable place to raise their families. Renting an apartment