Making Story Quilts

Basically the south has a huge market for patients in healthcare. Soon after Katrina, Tulane University Hospital was up and running to take in some patients. Later, Tulane University Medical Center took in some of Charity Hospital workers and patients. Since Charity Hospital was badly damage from the storm the location was deemed unfixable. In lieu of Charity Hospital a brand new state-of-the-art facility known as University Medical Center recently opened taking over ten years to develop with $1.1 billion dollars budget (Davino,

Different cultures around the world utilize different techniques to pass on family histories. The Hmong culture makes story tapestries and West African tribes use song and oral story to pass on their traditions. In the poem, “The Century Quilt,” poet Marilyn Nelson Waniek shares the story of one family’s heritage and the role blankets play in telling the family history. Waniek uses the literary devices of shifts, symbolism and colors to show the complexities of the speaker’s heritage, and how the familial relationships in her life have shaped her.

This center began making its impact on the community in July of 2003. The tragic death of a 13 year old girl who was left unsupervised during after-school hours was found overdosed on drug in a Davie, FL mobile home

What Dee failed to realize was that the quilts she wanted were in fact a part of their family’s heritage. Each quilt was made with with parts of clothing from different family members and sown together to show their importance in the family and also for remembrance of who they all

Besides Eastern Carolina Human Services Agency, Inc, where he works, he mentioned there were other resources out in the New River area. The Department of Human Services’ building is located near the shopping center, although, employees are relocating to the three-story floor

The problem I have noticed on the news lately that I felt needed a form of Human Service is the young people of Louisiana who are recovering from the flood that made thousands of their family to leave their homes.

For this service learning assignment I devoted my time and energy to working with Brooklyn Cemetery, the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia, and Athens Technical College. I participated in MLK Day of Service, which was created with the intent to “celebrate and honor the birthday of the famed civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr” ("There's Still," n.d.). This day of service stood to serve many different aspects of the community and benefited a wide range of populations, mostly in the form of environmental cleanup. Much of my time was also spent volunteering with The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia, whose mission is to “work toward ending hunger as part of an overall community effort to alleviate poverty” (Growing Seeds, 2016, p. 2). Through

After hours of thinking and discussion our leadership group came to the conclusion that we would, give back to a women's home by the name of Seton Home. This was a domicile for single teen and adult women, with children who were homeless.

One of the philanthropic action of Home Depot is, they support the communities that suffered from the natural

The American Red Cross after witnessing Loyola University students carrying their belongings in pillowcases upon evacuating the school dorms due to the massive flooding associated with Hurricane Katrina. Soon after, New Orleans chapter Chief Executive Officer Kay Wilkins partnered with a local art therapist to create a program that helped children cope during the recovery process after Hurricane Katrina. In 2013, Disney decided to collaborate with The American Red Cross to extend access to the program to other regions of the United States. To date, Disney remains as a strong financial contributor to the program. Hence, The Pillowcase Project evolved into a preparedness program for elementary school students between grades 3rd through 5th (American Red Cross, 2016).

On September 14th myself and four of my investigators (Susan Hamil, Daphne Jenkins, Leslie Katsman and Seth Schrum) had the pleasure to partake in a KeyPoint Cares event. During the event, we worked alongside a local charity to help fight hunger in Seattle. OSL, formerly known as Operation Sack Lunch and in the midst of a name change to Only Serving Love, is a non-profit organization that was started by a local musician in 1989, who saw the harsh realities of homelessness in Seattle because of people searching for food in dumpsters following her late-night gigs.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has many areas that serve the country. They provide care to better their communities. The RWJF also connects with physicians, educators, case workers, nurses, caregivers, and anyone else who has a connection within the public; which will provide help to increase the well-being of their neighbors (“Our Focus Areas”, n.d.).

Well, Lake Side medical center is a corner stone in the Belle Glade community. Having this center in the Belle Glade area has many benefits due to the many services that it provides to the residence. One of the many services that the hospital provide is its emergency care. The emergency care is basically for emergencies. For example, if someone is bleeding continuously or coughing up blood they most likely will have to report to the hospital and the working nurses will provide them with urgent care. This hospital offers great services and save a lot of peoples life. If it was not for this hospital the amount of death that could occur each year if there was not one in the area. As stated on NBC News ‘more than 200 million children worldwide under age 5 do not get basic health care leading to nearly 10 million deaths annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia’. It has been proven that areas without a health care center seems to have a large amount of death each year.

According to The Bridgespan Group (2012), this success is due in part to a model that facilitates “community members as partners and producers of impact.” Through regular meetings with neighborhood residents and the Atlanta Housing Authority, East Lake community members play an active role in the housing developments occurring in their neighborhood and therefore benefit the most from these outcomes. By allowing community members to become agents of their own social situations, the East Lake community has effectively capitalized on the power of social agency and utilized a community-led model to achieve a housing development policy that addresses a wide variety of social issues. Under the same framework of community-led growth, the Columbia Parc neighborhood in New Orleans has incurred significant redevelopment since the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Columbia Parc neighborhood is a redevelopment of the St. Bernard Project, a public housing unit in the Gentilly neighborhood in New Orleans. Columbia Parc was developed under the same framework of Purpose Built Communities as pioneered by East Lake in

Established in 1978, the Downtown Women’s Center (“DWC”) provides services to homeless and low income women in the heart of Los Angeles’s skid row. Its mission is to advocate ending homelessness for women. In 2012, DWC was named California’s Nonprofit of the year receiving the Governor’s Volunteering and Service Award. The Office of the Governor and California Volunteers recognize DWC’s extraordinary ability to engage community volunteers in ending homelessness for women.