Reflection Of A Community Meeting

This paper is a reflective report of the authors’ personal observations, thoughts, and experiences from attending one of the ‘Alcohol Anonymous (AA) meetings’ at Burnaby Fellowship Centre Society. It is a drop-in social club for recovering alcoholics and addicts where its members describe their experiences with alcohol or drug addiction, how they came to the society, and how their lives have changed as a result of attending the program. Burnaby Fellowship Centre Society is part of the AA group which is a self-supporting and independent body. Membership is open to anyone who wants to recover from addictions and the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop the addictions. The main purpose of the AA meetings is to help its members

I went to the San Bernardino City Unified School District Board meeting that took place on October 3, 2017. In this board meeting, there were a lot of interesting topics that that were discussed. The board members voted on various topics throughout the board meeting, the community could see the members’ votes. This board meeting focused more on High School students rather than on Elementary students.

CM travel to Cooperative Counseling Services in Union this afternoon. Ms. Lisette informs CM as I walked up to her that Beyonce was meeting with the therapist right now and once she finish with Beyonce she will meet with us. Ms. Lisette reports that she attended Beyoncé’s IEP meeting at Green Brook Academy in Bound Brook. Ms. Lisette states that there was no changes to Beyonce IEP. CM expresses to Ms. Lisette that is good news to hear. Ms. Lisette also mention to CM that Beyonce meets with her mentor Pamela Jones on Tuesday after she comes from meeting with her probation officer Mr. Sosa. Mentor services is a probation referral services for youth. Ms. Lisette also informs CM that Beyonce attends anger management at family and children services

Every school district has board meetings throughout the school year. Unfortunately, many parents, community members, & school personnel do not attend such important meetings because they don’t realize or understand the importance of such board meetings or how informative they can be. According to Kankakee School District (2017), the Kankakee School District Board of Education is composed of seven elected members, who were elected by the citizens of Kankakee to serve a four-year term that do not receive no salary for they services, are committed to ensuring a quality of educational excellence that will enhance the opportunities and challenges facing today’s student and additional responsibilities that board members include are selection of the District superintendent, developing general polices according to wishes of the community and requirements of law, hiring school personnel based upon recommendation of the Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel, adopts salary schedules, approves funds to finance school operations, must adopt and review the annual operating budget for the District, and setting the property tax levy to produce adequate funds to meet the District’s financial needs ranks among the responsibilities of the Board of Education (Retrieved from https://www.ksd111.org/domain/68). For this paper, the Kankakee School District board meeting will be used, information learned from board meeting, use of

I was strike by the number female living on the streets. That is the first thing I noticed when I moved to DC last August. That is why I signed up for the session led by the members of the National Coalition for the Homeless Speakers Bureau. After the session, I acquired a deeper understanding of the causes of homelessness, such as the Vietnam War, the expansion of drugs in the US, domestic violence, and the decrease of low-income housing. The number I will never forget: eight thousands; the number of homeless people in DC. The words I will never forget: “regardless of who people are, everyone should have a home.” This sounds so obvious, but I tend to think that homeless people most of the time “deserve” their situation by not working well enough. Homelessness is an issue of public concern. Like any city, Washington DC is a community, so Americans have to learn how to live together. However, it seems that there is a huge social and economic gap among Washington DC inhabitants. Some people are congressmen, some are homeless: some are high-paid, some are not paid at all. The gap is big, that is the reason why people have to care. In order to raising public attention, I thought of a project that I did not have the time to work on. I wanted to meet as much homeless as possible, and taking a photo of them, within their living conditions, smiling. My message would have been: “homeless people ask you for a hello. You ignore

On the 9th of December of 2014, I attended a San Jose City Council meeting in the council chambers in the San Jose City Hall. The topic of discussion was the issue of affordable housing in San Jose. There are nearly 5,000 homeless people in San Jose. There are thousands more on waiting lists for affordable housing, some using more than 50 percent of their daily income for rent, or in danger of losing their homes. Homelessness impacts our community, our environment, and our homeless neighbors. Addressing the issue of homelessness is a constant battle between respecting the rights and also meeting the needs of the homeless individuals. This was continuously brought up during the City Council meeting. The members were discussing the

Reflection, I couldn’t go to a school board meeting, but I watch a video post it on (youtube.com, 2015) about the RSD State of schools meeting. The school board main goal is to give what a student’s need to achieve their academic success in the future. The School Board phrase “one vision, all students, one reading” summarize that the school board purpose is to make every student in Reading district to get the necessary education they need to achieve their goal. The school board made a decision based on data that can prove that every school is doing what they supposed to do to reach an excellent level of performance. Principle#7: The teacher plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, the community, and curriculum goals.

On March 7, 2017, I attended a meeting of the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners at which they discussed land use and development. Topics and requests discussed included easements and setback applications and zoning. Having never previously attended a county meeting before, I had my expectations set relatively low for the meeting efficiency. I turned out being surprised with how the meeting was run, which I will discussed further in this summary.

Tuesday November 21st, 2012 was a clear cold day, as I was walking into the judicial complex of Crawford County. I did not have to go to the judicial complex, but it was my choice. It was my choice to go that very day and speak on my behalf of 4H. I was feeling as if the county was taking 4H away. A door was opened for me to have the new opportunity of Public Speaking.

CM spoke to Monique Cox (FSO partner) regarding FSO services for the family. CM provided FSO partner an update on the family. CM invited FSO partner to upcoming face to face meeting on Wednesday, 4/19/17 at 9:30am. FSO partner confirmed her attendance.

The 12-step group I observed is Sunrise Semester, an alcohol-anonymous group open to women. The group meeting was held in a spacious room in a Catholic church. The group leader sat in the front, surrounded by the group members. The group had a relatively large size, with nearly 20 people ranged from the middle age to the elderly. Some of the members just started being sober while some older members have been sober for more than 20 years. Most of the group members are Caucasians and the rest was Hispanics, Indians and Philippines. The atmosphere of the group meeting was warm, friendly and engaging. The meeting started from some housekeeping announcements and the sharing of the group leader, who is not a mental health professional but has been

This week in service learning we had a discussion about the election and politics in general. Personally i’m not really into talking about politics because it just ends up in a heated debate. People get mad about talking about it but they want to keep talking about it and I just don’t have any interest in talking about it. I feel like if I were to say something people you just bash what I had to say so I just listened. We also worked on the service project fundraiser for the Children's Museum. I think that this fundraiser is going to be a good turnout and raise a lot of money.

I am quite involved in our extra curricular activities on my campus. To begin, I am a three year starter on our wrestling team in Oshkosh. I am hoping to be a captain for my team this year. This doesn't make me a better person but hopefully a better teammate and in the future a better coach. Wrestling helps me stay disciplined and organized. I am also part of our Oshkosh Physical Education Club or OPEC. This club is for all of the Physical Education major students on campus. I have been a member for 3 years now; last year I was the Vice President. This school year I will be the President of this club. This makes me a better person because I have to help students through different situations such as, thinking of dropping out, having problems

There is always a need for permanent, supportive housing. One of the problems is that people don’t want it anywhere near them. In Humboldt, a nice lady is buying a building so there could be families housed in it. There are concerns about the type of people that would be in this building due to the stereotype that are put on the homeless. People in our community and our nation as a whole have this notion that the homeless population is drug dealers, drug users who are not clean while committing criminal activities. Nobody would want that near them. If I was part of the committee helping this nice lady gather community support I would have one clear strategy. The strategy would revolve around dispelling this belief. I would figure out who might

Our policy issue in this paper concerned the homeless in Baltimore city. The research also emphasizes the issue of concentrated housing prices, lower-income people, which research indicates has a deleterious impact on the life of numerous people. Homelessness is a public issue that should be addressed because it raises many negative than positive implications and it is a current issue that has never been resolved. Today, the percentage of numerous homeless people have grown (increases). As a result of that , there are 3000 people qualified as homeless and many causes of Homelessness such as the lacking of affordable houses, lack of financial support, unemployment, lack of social support, low-incomes, and residential instability, poverty, mental illness, domestic violence. According to the Department of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defined homelessness as individuals who lack a accommodate housing or a stay (Sheila Dixon, Mayor 2008). The homeless people are the one who suffers here to get a shelter or aid (Sheila Dixon, Mayor 2008). As a result of that homeless is considered as a choice of individuals. Our choices can lead us to the right or wrong paths.