The Work Abs 497 Week 1 Assignment Community Change

Have you ever thought about people who need help in your community and ways you could help? In Aniak, Alaska, there was a need in the medical field because the town only had one doctor. A team of teenagers saw this need and decided they could do something about it and formed a team called the Dragon Slayers. On the other side of the country, Cassandra saw a different kind of need in her community. Because of harsh Rhode Island winters, fuel for heating homes is really important. She and her friends learned about biodiesel and how it could help her community. In the two articles, Defeating Dragons and Food That Fuels, young people saw community needs and helped bring positive change in unique ways.

Community development is used to promote health education because the problems can be directly targeted and hit. Community development is used to target issues such as environment issues, housing, crime, pollution, support and isolation. By improving these issues you can improve the health issues that have become a consequence, Such as smoking, alcohol, drugs, stress, exercise and crime. See diagram

What is the importance of community? Please talk about your experience with working with diverse groups of people and how you interact with others that are different from you in a community setting.

A major issue that is a result of racial tensions in my district is the fact that there are two high schools in the district that have a majority of Caucasian students and a majority of African American students. This has led to the students in those schools not often being exposed to many students of a different race. Therefore these students respond poorly to diversity, and it has led to the minority students in both of those school feeling belittled and overlooked. Similarly, these students feel adverse to diversity, and this has resulted in most of them feeling dislike for students that are different than them.

1. How might we inspire community members of all kinds to stand-up and be an ally for those kids who are labeled as dysfunctional or different?

The community I decided to research and compose this paper is one from which I live, Kent County Michigan. I gathered data from several different resources such as the Kent County Health Department and Michigan Department of Community Health in order to create a community assessment. The data I collected can be broken down into four different assessment pieces.

ELCC 4.2 states the importance of community relations in order to reach the different cultures of the school. The community offers many resources that can be over looked by schools. In order to meet this standard was the school crisis plan evaluation. Within this activity I had to create a task force team made up of school and community members. The task force team looked at

“Is the topic related to your organization, the community, or a personal interest? Does the topic align with Regis University’s mission: ‘men and women in service to others’? Is the topic manageable? Is the topic attainable? (doable within 8 weeks)Is the topic one that you are passionate about?”

There are several potential community problems in this area such as low test scores in the school, high employment rate and lack of adequate transportation. Any one or all of these could compound difficulties for a community member struggling to get by in this community.

Think about the implementation strategy and/or intervention method your group selected for your community program project.

Ethnographic Study Paper In performing my ethnographic study on my school and community I will be discussing the following, ethnic background, language, age, and educational level of community members, behavioral norms, values, and socioeconomic status. Out of these seven factors the two I feel have a significant effect on the daily personal and professional interactions within the school and community are the educational level of community members and the socioeconomic status. I teach in a very small town called Thermal in California. The population is roughly 2,900 and has one neighborhood. Thermal is listed as 591 largest communities in California. Thermal can be described as a blue-collar town, with almost half of the people working in

I live in a rural community named Brockton, or as some like to call us “Broketown.” I have lived in Brockton for 12 unconsecutive years. Brockton is a small community, but we are publicly exploited for violence and crime. Brockton is full of influential and hard working people and not everyone gets to see this positive side of Brockton. As someone that lives in Brockton, I know how hard it is to set goals and actually have the support needed to accomplish them. Brockton has a bad reputation because of the negativity that is dispersed about Brockton resident. Brockton kids are tainted with this image that we’re all disrespectful and low achievers. I want to break that mold. I want to diminish the stereotype that Brockton kids don’t amount to great things.

Strengthening community action is instrumental in establishing positive health outcomes in young people. In strengthening community action, various support networks are put into place to not only prevent

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Through this class, I understand the general gist of what controls the community in terms of power, organizational strength, and political influences. I have learned about what factors into certain decisions that community members make and what the recent outlook of community participation is. Even though I learned that community participation and involvement in organizations has declined over the past years, it is hopeful to find ways to combat this social apathy that is happening in America today. I enjoyed learning about strategies to help groups of people interact and create an active and responsive community power. The Greene and Haines text was well-organized, strategic, direct, and practical to the subject matter.