South Oak Park, Sacramento: Case Study

From Chicago’s 77 neighborhood areas, North Lawndale occupies 3rd for violent crime reports, in the past 30 days, being robbery the most frequent one, it ranks 20th for property crime, with thefts as the most common offense, and 4th for quality of life, with criminal damage being the highest one. As big plants and other factories moved out of the neighborhood, several liquor stores replaced the empty spaces and crime became the norm. Abraham Burgo, 35 year-old, was shot in the neck on January 23, and on February 1 he died. The victim lived in the 1500 block of South Trumbull Avenue. The register of murders available also shows the case of 21 year-old man Jaquille Reams. He was inside of a store in West Ogden Avenue when he was shot multiple

On September 21, 2015, I met with Ms. Katie, a student in the MSW program at NCSU, to conduct an interview. We met at Starbucks in Cary, in the crossroads shopping center. Ms. Katie’s responses helped me learn and think about social workers in the child welfare social field. As a prospective social worker, my questions were formed based thoughts that I was concerned about my responsibilities in the social work field..

In response, Sophia told me she felt that it was a great reward to see even the smallest positive change when working with a family or community but challenges could be the exact opposite, working endlessly to advocate for change and not seeing, or being disappointed with the result. In her fieldwork she feels that the reward of being part of any small positive changes are all her successes and with this, she knows she is doing what she set out to accomplish in social work practice. As a definition of social work provides much confusion for

Title: The Influence of time of day on violent Crime activity in LeDroit Park, Washington, DC.

From the humble beginning of Social Work there have been many people who have tirelessly worked, fought, and dedicated their life advocating for the people in our world who are disadvantaged. Furthermore, many of these people have been women who not only were strong enough to fight for the rights of others, but also had to fight the forces whom thought that women where in some way second hand citizens themselves. These women were brave and determined enough to break out of the box that society placed them in, and stand up for the social injustices that they seen taking place, and try to make a difference. Of the many women from the early days of Social Work none fought harder for social reform than Grace Abbott. Grace Abbott spent her life

Violent crimes in their 334 developments have risen over 31% since 2009 and the city needs over $15 billion to properly fix the buildings over the next 5 years (Smith, 2014). Castle Hill, Patterson, Wagner, Brownsville, Van Dyke I, Butler, Ingersoll, Queensbridge South, Polo Grounds Towers, and Red Hook West are the worst of the worst and will require almost $2 billion to fix (Smith, 2014). The conditions were so bad that 65% felt that intruders could gain entry because bad locks and 45% did not feel safe in their stairwells (Smith, 2014). The money and decisions for how to fix these problems and reduce crime have to come from

Per wells, “ Another creative examples of human service in the face of extreme opposition was the work of the Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, whose members were determine to provide health care service to sharecroppers in Mississippi. When the white community refused to rent them office space, they offered the health services from cars ( Gordon 1991).” ( Martin Pg 32) . Human services professionals should live up to their role. We should be determine to help those in need even if we don’t see a way; she should be

The film “Crime in the Urban Chicago” is an accurate source of information because it transmits several of the concerns and struggles that the citizens residing in the area face daily. The setting of the film goes into Riverdale, Chicago; in which the Newton family provides an insight of what it means to reside in the suburbs. For this reason, the information of the documentary gains relevance, because they incorporate first person stories that accurately describe the current period of violence and crime in Chicago. Furthermore, the documentary describes considerable societal issues that evolve around a typical urban community. For example, the relative lack of employment and governmental services and facilities such as schools and educational

The outcomes for the Southern Park Heights neighborhood are consistent with the issues that urban African Americans face. These outcomes are a result of the continuous cycle of poverty that urban African Americans go through. Urban African Americans do not have the same resources available as middle-upper class neighborhoods. Southern Park Heights statistics are a prime example of the level of violence in the urban communities influencing the safety of the residents. The homicide incidence rate in Souther Park Heights is 43.7 per 10,000 residents, this is 22.8 numbers greater than Baltimore City. The health outcomes are also an example of the impact of family structures; many urban African Americans are raised in single parent homes influencing

“In a county of 10 million people, the unincorporated Westmont neighborhoods is among the deadliest places to live” (Santa Cruz & Schwencke). The South Los Angeles neighborhood of Westmont is infamously known for its violence. The area’s population is 31,467 people and is primarily made up of African Americans and Hispanics. Many residents either have just a highschool diploma or even less than that. In fact only 5.7% of residents have a four-year degree while there is a high percentage of residents with less than a highschool diploma. Westmont’s households median average is $31,572. Even though Westmont is a fairly small neighborhood, it is ranked 12th in the Los Angeles violent crimes and has had 257 violent crimes in the past six months

After almost four years, the City of Takoma Park has been on an ongoing debate with the Takoma Park-Silver Spring Cooperative grocery store to pursue the construction of the Takoma Junction city-owned parking lot in order to revitalize the commercial area.

In looking at Nashville, Tennessee, as an example, the behavior, which should be the focus of the area that are in question in resolving the criminal justice problems in low-income neighborhoods would be violent crimes against the person; (assault, rape, robbery, murder, etc.) the data obtained for this question, was taken from the City of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee ("MNPD Public Crime Reports and Maps," n.d.) In reviewing the crime areas the central zone would be located in what is considered the centralized area of downtown Nashville, with the population density decreasing towards the outward zones. According to the website, The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, it collects and reports data in both the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program and the National

The women’s agency offers a full range of services to women in the central valley community. Unfortunately, the program was affected by cutbacks and the professionals who provided the counseling were women with degrees in social work, counseling, and psychology. Research suggests that social work professionals are some of the best prepared to respond to the world’s social problems. Social workers are not easy to find in the mix of societal problem solving and for the Director of the women’s agency to have reduced the number of counseling professionals from nine to three was an error on her behalf. It would have been in the interest of the Director to support the social workers. The professionals who provided the counseling services could have taken action to assert and “stand up and embrace the straightforward business sense found in social entrepreneurship” (Germak & Singh, 2010, p. 80), the hybrid of social work macro practice and business activities. Many social workers are already exposed to the business of working in nonprofit environments, “encompassing nearly 1.6 million organizations and having an aggregate budget of approximately $820 billion, the nonprofit sector in the United States is a robust socio-economic influence” (Germak & Singh, 2010, p. 80). The Director could have researched about the growth of the nonprofit industry and competed for the funding. So, it is to the interest of social workers to

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Volunteers for the Fort Bend Women’s Center fulfill a number of roles in their retail store, PennyWise. In my service, I worked to help the staff organize and sort the various donations that they received that were inundating their warehouse. Working with PennyWise exposed me to an entirely different perspective than I was previously familiar with as I have always been insulated away from people in such a situation. I found that the employees, women who were victims of domestic violence trying to get back on their feet again, faced an array social problems that severely affected every aspect of their lives. Several of the most notable social problems that I observed intersecting with domestic violence were poverty/class inequality, gender, and race.