Las Cruces Child Observation Report

The pediatric observation assignment allows me to observe not only about the children but also about myself. While doing this assignment, I have observed myself that I can understand the theories better when I can able to apply them practically. The developmental theories I have learned in class are reflected in this process of observation and documentation. Also, the observation assessment tool, Hawaii Early Learning Checklist helped me to observe specifically about developmental signs of the child of the assigned age range. Together with the knowledge I already have and the assist of HELP Checklist, I documented the skills, and patterns of development of the 30-months-old-preschooler-boy Isaac.

I would hand the leaders the importance of my topic and how important the Hispanics are to this community and our country. I would make sure that what I need for the Hispanics are backed by laws, but have shown neglect or the situation need to be implemented and passed on to congress. Policy practice may be defined as activities that are carried out by social workers as an integral part of their professional work, which is aimed at influencing the development, enactment, implementation, modification, or preservation of social welfare policies at the organizational, local, national, and international levels (Jansson,

The non-profit organization that I chose for the semester project is Feeding America, a non-profit organization that consists of a network of food banks assisting food insecure people throughout the nation. What does a food insecure family look like in the United States? It is parents going without food in order to feed their children, it is families rationing food and skipping meals.

EREPORT # 19424 stated the following: Child (Carol) reported ongoing incidences of abuse and neglect, but this particular reporting was made today, 3-7-16. Carol reported that there are parties at their house every school night, tattoo parties. She stated that it wakes her up with crazy music and people bring alcohol from Maben. She stated that they do not have enough food. She stated, "sometimes we don't even have dinner. And if it's not a school day, we don't have lunch. Sometimes we can find blueberries. We found a bag of freezer burnt cow meat once and Kaylob warmed it up on a fire he made". Reported that Greggory has Down's Syndrome and we (kids) take care of him and change his diapers. Carol stated, "every time Mom and Dad fight, Greggory

Conducting a focus groups with women that are or have been homelessness and their caseworkers, separately, to (a) see how the living in a shelter on a daily basis can effect these women how to go about finding a more permanent home,

In the United States the children and our elderly population are most vulnerable. A need that needs to be addressed is that older adults have a lack of income. This mean that older adults do not have much money for food, because they have a harder time finding work that is not too labor intense. A program that I propose that would service our older population would be provided meals to older adults in the community. The goals and needs that my service program would satisfied would be food insecurity and the goal would be to increase socialization and promote community involvement. A Congregate meals site in the local community center would serve low income to no income older adults who have a need for food. Congregate meals would provide a good warm and nutritious meal and it would address the hunger and food insecurity that many older adults are facing in many poor communities. I did independent research on similar programs and services that were similar to my service program.

Our senior project’s purpose is to give back to our community and feed the less fortunate families in Long Beach. Just in our city alone there are more than 53,000 homeless families. Our target market is mainly the less fortunate families but we are opening it up to other groups as well. Our motivational values such as effort, teamwork, dedication, individual worth and integrity, folds our mission together. Long Beach is considered the 9th highest district of the less fortunate families in our major cities. Families become homeless because of many reasons such as job loss, violence, divorces, and family disputes. Other reasons follow such as depression, illness and stress. We want to be able to provide meaningful essentials

The first item on the agenda was the “ Analysis of the Food Insecurity Lectureship by the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute.” Joanna Puddister-King led a discussion on the significance of information presented at the event. Several community organizations attended the meeting ( MS Food Network, Good Samaritans, Society for St Anthony, Jeremiah’s Bread, MS Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, etc.). They were extremely impressed by information they received and the panel discussion. They were also interested in our next events.

However, if this was the case then it would not be true that “food insecurity affects 16 million children in the United States” (O’Malley). This study noted that “the most difficult part of identifying and addressing food insecurity lies in the details associated with screening” (O’Malley) for it. The problem is often the need for parents to admit to other issues within the family and find resources when they are already strapped with many burdens. As noted before, this screening process is easily done by teachers who are in contact with students on a regular basis, unlike pediatricians who are currently in charge of screening during standardized visits, checking for hunger in the “process in routine well-child care” (O’Malley). Families struggling with hunger may not have the resources to visit doctors on a regular basis. Children suffering from hungry will not be able on their own to reach out to these charitable organizations or food banks, but they can advocate for themselves and their families while at school. So these charitable organizations should team up with the schools in order to put services where they are far more accessible, particularly to children in

Identify a health issue within your region. Discuss why you are concerned about this health issue and discuss why the issue is important.

Our largest group of stakeholders are the students, at Mandarin High School, we interviewed three boys and three girls from each grade level. We chose this many students because we felt it will represent their views accurately and we would be able to gather and compare data from many

The types of services that I received at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center were a range of services. To start I received neurological services from Dr. DiMaurio, which succeeded Dr. Bronkwell. I also received MRIS on my brain and stomach. I received many services from CCMC, because of the numerous health conditions that I had and still have, such as low muscle tone, and stomach issues. This experience affected me in many ways. One of the effects of the treatment, which I received at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, is that it has allowed me to live a happy and healthy life. By allowing me to live a happy and healthy life, I was and am able to achieve my dreams and aspire to go beyond what people normal expect from

Growing up in poverty as a child we would always look for free resources throughout our community to assist us with clothing, food and low income programs such as housing. One of the main resources we found really valuable was a food bank community center located in our city of Pittsburg, CA. We will go every other week to stack up on foods like produce, diary, can foods and frozen meats. Sometimes when we didn't have enough food to eat during the week we would head over to the Emergency Food Bank provided free meals. I am glad that we live in a society were communities can work among each other to help the people in need. This why I have chosen this specific topic to write my paper on due to the past childhood experiences i've had.

Food is a basic need; in an ideal world, food would be a resource that could be equally accessible to any and all persons. Although, in more recent times, terms such as food deserts and food insecurity have been the topic of many conversations that concern different socioeconomic groups and how that relates to their overall health. Food deserts are communities where occupants who live in an area in which affordable and healthy foods are not in close proximity or readily available. An article written by Nadine L. Camp, a nurse practitioner at Children’s National Medical Center stated that food insecurities have been on the rise in the United States with a prevalence within at least 15% of households and around 20% of households with children

Focus groups are a prominent method of enquiry, regularly used within the field of social science and in particular, qualitative research. The focus group practice involves a number of participants having an open discussion on a specific topic, set by a researcher. The researcher acts as a moderator to aid discussion by using probes to collect desirable data. This process is recorded and transcripts are used to interpret and analyse given information.