Puente Community Analysis

With over seven years of experience in her field at Yale Hospital and in Healthcare Insurance, her unremitting compassion and dedication to her cause persists with the role as a Community Outreach Education Coordinator at the Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity.

Last May, I traveled with Alternative Breaks to New York for community service. During this service, I worked with Meals on Wheels who dedicate their time to provide food for the elderly of Manhattan. As I delivered the food to the seniors, I got a sense of fulfillment because I made them smile by providing them with food. Thus, I chose MDC’s Single Stop because I wanted to make a difference in my home campus by providing and assuring nourishment to those that do not have it just like I did in New York. As my first two years of college comes to an end, I wanted to leave a mark of my own here at home at Miami Dade College North Campus. During the month of September, I decided to partner up with a few of my peers to serve at MDC’s Single Stop.

Wakulla is a small county that seats at Crawfordville, near to the Golf of Mexico. It was founded on March 11, 1843 when Port Leon was destroyed by a hurricane (Revize). The Wakulla community suffer for diverse health disparities. Similarly, in a community/ health nursing point of view, social determinants have a big impact on the health of the Wakulla community. Social determinants of health include factors such as: socioeconomic status, geographic location, and health behaviors, contribute to the vulnerability of individuals and population groups within the community of Wakulla County.

As a way to strengthen my skills as a community organizers and activist, I attended a volunteer training event hosted by Planned Parenthood for those interested in fighting for reproductive rights on a political level. I and 13 other volunteers met to learn about Planned Parenthood’s community organizing tactics and some of the success gained from past collaborations. We learned how community organizing, as seen during the 2013 filibuster against the Texas abortion bill, can make a big enough impact to influence those not involved in the movement to join. After our discussion, we all took turns to share our experiences with community organizing and how it influenced us to be involved with the women’s reproductive rights efforts. Lastly the

I completed my service project working alongside Dawn McKee from the Centre County Women’s Resource Center. She, along with the director of the Children’s Advocacy Center, director of the Youth Service Bureau, a representative from Children and Youth Services, and a representative from YMCA of Centre County came together to organize an event for sexual assault and child abuse. They coordinated an event on the courthouse steps in Bellefonte where they recognized members in the community who were dedicated to preventing and spreading awareness of sexual assault and child abuse.

Growing up, I faced many of the challenges; I was a first-generation Mexican-American college student whose first language was Spanish. I grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles, and I did not have any support system to think of an educational career beyond a high school degree. It was up to me to learn how the post-high school education system was structured for individuals who were not the ideal college candidate and to uncover opportunities for myself in the educational world. I went to East Los Angeles College and it was there that I obtained my social network of individuals that assisted me with the transfer process to a four-year institution. I joined many programs, clubs, and community services events. The Puente Program was one of the programs I attended, which provided

It has been a great privilege to be a member of the Xaverian community and I am blessed to be at this amazing school. Watching myself and my classmates coming together and working hard to achieve our best academic and athletic potential has been an amazing experience. Since September, we have all grown closer together by coming to understand the values that Xaverian has been telling us since the first day. These values have been ingrained into all of us and e all now sense the feel of a brotherhood rather than just classmates. As a member of Student council, I will live out these values of Xaverian in every aspect of the student life to the best of my ability.

While shadowing physician assistants, I volunteered at The Mustard Seed Medical Missions, a nonprofit organization that provides medical care to those with financial hardships. My first day there I got to meet the staff who made it all happen – the two women who worked the front desk who answered phones and organized patient files, the nurse who manually took blood pressure and did a review of why the patient was attending, the phlebotomist who took blood in even the smallest of veins to run labs, the translator

I got the opportunity to interview Tim Gnaneswaran he is the community involvement coordinator at Olive Crest. He talked about the mission of the agency and the different services they offer at Olive Crest. Olive Crest offers more than eleven different programs to help at-risk children

I chalked out a plan for my internship with Som, the interim director of the Margaret Sloss Women’s Center. Every week I had office hours, staff meetings, and one on one meeting with Som. I took up a lead on existing programs and events like Who Needs Feminism? , Equal Pay Day, volunteer training, and presentations. I helped out with events such as The Vagina Monologues, Take back the Night, Gender Equity awards, The Gender Monologues. Additionally, I created my own program in the honor of the International Women’s Day.

During high school, I was actively involved in my local AHEC, which offered a program for high school students in the area to learn more about the health field through various camps and programs. One of the programs that I attended was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the focus of the program was to expose first generation college students to the various allied health programs at UNC. Throughout the program professors and admission representatives from various departments gave a short presentation to the attendees, but the presentation from the Gillings School of Global Public Health was the one that resonated with me the most. That day I was introduced to a

Moreover, before at the end of the presentation, we had watched a brief video clip based on planned parenthood to understand more information about it so that we can/could understand it better. Lastly, at the near end of the presentation, I had lastly learned that planned parenthood is “a nonprofit organization that does research into and gives advice on contraception, family planning and reproductive problems.”, planned parenthood can also give aid to patients in hospitals/doctor visits on Medicaid that 60% of our nation has it, to understand the America Care Act (ACA) to give us a better health outcome and to understand what is

Another integral part of Planned Parenthood’s operation is its outreach and educational services. As the organizations goal is to

Over the past two years I’ve been able to oversee several individuals as a coordinator at the nonprofit organization, Santa Cruz Homeless Services Center. Through my work there I was able to recognize my strengths and weaknesses in health services management. Working for a nonprofit

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)