Socorro Alvarez : Hispanic Outreach Director At Western Avenue Community Center

In her youth, Clemencia struggles with not knowing which social and economic class she belongs to or her place in the community. As she recalls her family history and the culture of her parents, the gap between her father and her mother as well as how each of them grew up explains the disappointment in her mother’s marriage as neither parent meets the expectations and traditions they established and witnessed in youth. One statement the mother uses to describe the father is “Calidad. Quality” and even as her mother advises against marrying a Mexican, Clemencia manages to become involved with a man with an ego much like her father and she even speaks of his house and wardrobe just like her mother, as “Calidad. Quality” (Cisneros 81). Like her mother during her marriage to her

When one thinks about Hispanics, all too often the image of a field full of migrant workers picking fruit or vegetables in the hot sun comes to mind. This has become the stereotypical picture of a people whose determination and character are as strong or stronger than that of the Polish, Jewish, Greek, or Italian who arrived in the United States in the early 1900's. Then, the center of the new beginning for each immigrant family was an education. An education was the "ladder by which the children of immigrants climbed out of poverty into the mainstream." (Calderon & Slavin, 2001, p. iv) That ideal has not changed, as the Hispanic population has grown in the United States to large numbers very quickly and with little fanfare. Now, the

Michelle Silva is a hardworking student who only strives for greatness. She’s an A student who pushes herself to be her best in and out of school. April 21, 2017, will forever go down as a day to remember. It's the day Michelle went to receive a prestigious award. A couple months ago she wrote an essay for the 100 Hispanic women scholarship and recently she found out she won it. All her hard work and efforts finally paid off. The joy she felt of knowing she was one of the four winners filled her heart with pride.

The research report A call to action on behalf of Latino and Latina youth in the U.S. justice system, focuses on the Latinos community residing in the United States and Latin America. Primarily, the research focuses on Latino/a youths in the criminal justice system. Furthermore, the research report discusses Latino communities are getting differential treatment than other racial and ethnic communities from the United States criminal justice system. The research report has many case studies and story of incidences of Latino/a youths facing racial and ethnic disparities. Some of the examples of disparate treatment of police and criminal justice system provided by the report are police stop, arrest, detention, a waiver to adult criminal court, and sentencing. The justice system has used their discretion to treat Latino youth differently than others. In this reflection paper, I will connect few important issues discussed in the report such as negative stereotyping of Latinos communities and its impact, differential treatment of the Latino community from the police and justice system with the course materials covered in the semester.

The Hispanic/Latino community has been known to be underrepresented on college campuses, both at the community college and four-year university level. Factors such as low-income households, poor or harsh living conditions, under-educated parents, cultural and family commitments, and unfamiliarity with the college process, all serve as unfortunate barriers that keep Hispanic/Latino students from reaching the goal of attaining college degrees. Although these barriers keep many students from succeeding, many others overcome these obstacles and continue on their paths to creating a better future for themselves. They choose to look past the expectations that society has for them and break out of the stereotypical mold. However, Hispanic/Latino students face, yet, another challenge upon successfully making it on to a college campus... the challenge of graduating.

There are more & more immigrants coming to the US from Latinamerica and the American people are feeling threateend by them. They are afraid they will become a minority very soon.

Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales was born December 16 1945 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Gonzales was a Mexican boxer and former WBC Lightweight Champion also known as El Gato.

I am grateful that the place that I grew up in and the schools I’ve attended are overall highly diverse because these experiences exposed me to where other people come from and their point of views. As part of my personal beliefs and values of growing in a Latino community, I must be welcoming and respectful to others despite of people’s appearance or background.

The Latino community is ironic at Viana’s college because it was unforgiving if you do not make your Latindad known. For example Viana stated, “Knowing how hard it could sometimes be to accept the group and have the group accept you in return” (Garrod, 2012, p. 113). Rather than being a group to bond with each other and embrace their ethnicity, the group gossips or rejects members. This fact about the group was surprising to me. I am in a club known as National students speech hearing language association (NSSHLA), where everyone in the group is close with each other. Each member tries the help each other especially when we all take the same course, we help each other with homework. I visualized that all groups/clubs members for any organization

Adelante Hispanic Achievers is a program with objectives to encourage Hispanic students to set and meet goals in which will benefit them in the future. The program also helps Hispanic parents to understand and become more involved with their child’s education. Ultimately, their goal is to help Hispanic youth and their families with the proper resources to participate in the society around them. Adelante was created in 2004 by a former JCPS school Board chair Stephan Imhoff and a few community leaders, when the program was created they all believed on helping support Louisville’s Hispanic students and their families with brighter futures. Their mission is to provide ad inspire students to believe in their dreams without any limitations. To this

Hispanic Americans: The US government has started granting us citizenship. It has come with a price though. We are now also required to sign up for the draft. Jose has been sent to fight in Europe, Miguel is guarding the Panama Canal. Not sure where I’ll end up

I have chosen to write the following paper about the incident rates of cancer and the Hispanic/Latino populations in the United States. Cancer is the number two leading cause of death in the United States among all populations. In the Hispanic/Latino, cancer is the number one leading cause of death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (hereby referred to as the CDC), “about 1 in 3 Hispanic men and 1 in 3 Hispanic women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime”1. The incidence of cancer among the Hispanic/Latino population is for all “new cases: About 58,400 new cancer cases in Hispanic men and 67,500 cases in Hispanic women are expected to be diagnosed in 2015”1 compared to the rest of the U.S. population. There

The community that I researched was the Hispanic community.  According to Shedlin, Decena, Mangadu, and Martinez (2017) the Hispanic community may exhibit several issues when attempting to participate in policy-based research or conduct policy-based research (Shedlin, Decena, Mangadu, & Martinez, 2009).  Shedlin, Decena, Mangadu, and Martinez (2007) noted several difficulties when attempting to conduct a study in a Hispanic community that included a number of immigrants (Shedlin, Decena, Mangadu, & Martinez, 2009).  These difficulties were mainly associated with fear of stigmas, discrimination, immigration authorities, and cultural values (Shedlin, Decena, Mangadu, & Martinez, 2009).  Shedlin, Decena, Mangadu, and Martinez (2007) also noted several challenges when attempting to recruit participants, the environment they inhabited, and sensitivity to the topic being studied (Shedlin, Decena, Mangadu, & Martinez, 2009).

Thank you for sharing the impact on your social worker practice, so your learning about the Hispanic culture has made you confident and competent with the Hispanic culture. Our social worker program has a great deal to offer social workers, individuals, families and communities. As essential first component in the process of becoming a culturally competent social worker is curiosity about oneself. This involves the study and examination of one’s own cultural background and family history (Zayas, Kyriakkakis &Torres, 2010). I know you remember doing that family geno-map and the eco-map. I am glad that you have gained empowerment and competency through your practice because your statement about your ethical dilemma is heart breaking, but as you

As a hispanic girl, the typical dream which is expected of us is to want to have a quinceanera. Which would be a large party for the transition from childhood to adulthood. However this wasn’t the way it went for me. My dreams where different. I could honestly care less about having a huge party to celebrate me turning 15. Of course it would be great experience to have one and it is a once in a lifetime thing as you can only turn 15 once. Yet, I tend to not want this but at the same time I long having one. This wouldn’t be for the attention that is give or presents or anything you would expect. I would want it so that I could fulfill a long term dream. One which I have held onto for many years. I’d do it, only in order to be able to meet my other biological parent.