Agency Available – Homewood Health Centre (Guelph, Ontario) Mandate The mandate for the Homewood Institution is as followed. This Psychiatric Health institution has a national mandate that provides highly specialized care to all its individuals residing in Canada. They accept referrals from areas all over the world, however; even though the admission process is similar for all patients, the overall cost may vary depending on the approval of provincial health ministries and the type of accommodations…

Introduction Today the challenges for those who aspire to be leaders are high due to the current environments in business organizations. “The concept of 21st century community transformation recognizes that there will be times when traditional leadership ideas are appropriate and times when an emerging, new type of leadership is appropriate. This new leadership is called “transformational leadership” (Johns Hopkins University, 2010). Society is more diverse, demanding more with a lot of pressure…

idols and ancestral spirits. The traditional healer must use herbal concoctions and invoke the ancestral spirits or deities in order to treat diseases… This was the prevailing belief of the community I was born into. Yonso, my hometown, is a farming community located in the forest belt of Southern Ghana, West Africa. Growing up, the people of Yonso relied on the traditional healer who was either an herbalist, a witch doctor, or both, as their primary source of health care for the sick. With the nearest…

The Impact of Immigration Policies on Communities and the Future of West Michigan “I’m 50% Dutch, 25% German, 15% Polish and a 10% mixture of others I can’t remember.” Does this sound familiar at all? These types of phrases were one of the first things to befuddle my perception of my new found West Michigan friends when our family first moved up to Grand Rapids from a small town in Texas in 2008. It perpetually amazed me as to how so many people had so many different “percents” and a few even…

were black. According to Lord Scarman, appointed to chair the public inquiry into this riot, he calls them an ‘out bust of anger and resentment’ by young black people against the police (Calvin, 2016). Ethnic and communities criminalization finds its roots in 1960 when a report to the West Indian standing council alleged that the police indulged in practices they referred as ‘nigger hunting’ (Weichselbaum, 2001; Hussain & Bagguley, 2012). It showed the pre-existing beliefs about their supposed criminality…

Inn and Homewood Suites guests will experience similar flows when staying at this multi-branded hotel. They will check-in to their respective brand, park their vehicle on premise if necessary, find their way onto the guestroom floors, and then utilize the amenities offered to them such as the fitness center, pool, and the pantries located in each lobby. But throughout the hotel there are design pros and cons that will have an impact on the overall experience of both Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites…

China has undergone dramatic change in the past few decades. In contrast to its isolation from the international community in the 50s and 60s, China today is not only a member of virtually every international organization but even has the potential power to question and reshape the structure and norms of the institutions it has joined. No other country has undergone as total a transformation as has China during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The great change could be traced back to 1978 when…

“The Bottom”, a 1.2 square mile community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with many needs for uplifting and improvement by interstate 10 to the north and east and by highways to the south and west. Housing is substandard compared to other parts of the greater Baton Rouge area. Homelessness is apparent. There is an abundance of foot or bicycle traffic from both kids and adults. Businesses are of typical corner stores with no major grocery or retail business. The unemployment rate is 15% in…

Birdsville is a remote community that is situated in channel country on the west of Queensland (1). At present it has a population of 120 people (1). At present, in metropolitan areas, access and use of mental health services are effective in the diagnosis and treatment of depression. However in rural and remote areas, the rate of mental health disorders and depression is higher, with people in rural and remote areas being 16% more likely to experience a mental health or behavioural issue than…

David Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997) “The work of a mature, indeed brilliant, scholar…” are a few words from Thomas Kuehn, author of Law, Family, and Women, describing David Herlihy’s profession on his work of the Black Death. David Herlihy was a remarkable medievalist who questioned the inference of the Black Death, the Yersinia Pestis or the bubonic plague. Herlihy has written several other books about his work, one well-known…