...Effects of Change There are two certainties in life, death and taxes. I would like to add, “change” to that list as well. Change is everywhere and is considered both good and bad. Change stimulates innovation, growth, correcting mistakes of the past, reforming old techniques and behavior. But change can also be bad because it has uncertainty and sometimes leads to risk. Some of which includes loss of people, loyalty, trust, jobs, money, time and resources. To promote change, there needs to be effective planning, team work, proper execution, an open mind, critical thinking and individuals who are prepared to address problems with solutions. Change in Medical Community The medical community is always evolving and implementing new technology....
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...police. This basically convinced the community that we are all in it together to solve the problem of crime. In New York City it all started with Mr. Bratton who thought that crime could be tame. He indentified where crime was taking place and held local commanders responsible for their areas. It took tactical planning and accountability system. What set the stage for this process to work was Mayor David Dinkins, who won a tax increase to hire 7,000 additional police officers. The stop, question and frisk are an extension of the broken window theory that stated back in the 1980’s. Community scope should focus on the problem that affects the community, and talk to local officials, business leaders to built a brighter future for there community. Lack of community resources presents a challenge for communities. Deficient financial resources to deal with problems, forces community teams to rely on volunteers to carry out community base activities. Relationship between government and urban communities presents problem for community teams. The connection between government and community are damage by the community perception that governments do not understand community issues. Selecting an intended community change or benefit is only a beginning. Those involved need a sound plans that details the intermediate outcomes or milestones required to achieve the targeted change. The strategy, which may be expressed as a common sense model or presumption of change, must take into account the key...
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...special events are held, and the pavilions at the local parks are also available for renting for birthday parties, showers, and family reunions. The City of Mansfield is a growing community located in the southern part of Tarrant County in the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States. Being positioned near DFW, Mansfield’s population has grown from a mere 4,000 residents in 1970 to over 60,000 in 2009. In 2007, Money Magazine and CNN/Money voted Mansfield one of the Best Places to Live in America; being one of only six Texas cities to be on this list. As of 2015, the demographics and household income information are as follows: Household Income Race Less than $14,999 4% White 74% $15,000-$24,999 4% Black 14% $25,000-$34,999 5% Hispanic or Latin 8% $35,000-$49,999 10% Other 4% $50,000-$74,999 19% $75,000-$99,999 19% $100,000 Plus 39% The Mansfield Activities Center is part of the City’s Parks and Recreation Department. They operate and maintain more than 500 acres of developed parkland, more than 50 acres of athletic fields, 3 public/private partnerships, and several recreational facilities throughout the city. Mansfield has 14 parks, 3.5 miles of walking and biking trails, and one activities center. Their purpose is to enhance the quality of life within the community for all of the City’s residents through provision of places and opportunities for people to recreate and be active. The Budget used for the MAC and the Parks and Recreation Department...
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... West Philadelphia community doesn’t recycle as often as they should and this is because they don’t know the benefits of recycling and how harmful it could be. Recycling is very important because the earth’s precious resources in the current material world where we take all the incredible products around us for granted (Media, 2007). Recycling we can ensure that we get the most out of the precious resources that we have created, and help to eliminate the culture of just throwing things away. S.W.E.E.P is willing to help save our community. Their job is to educated communities about the important and benefits of recycling. They will provide bins and give tips on what to and not recycle. Philadelphia S.W.E.E.P is a program that will educate citizens about their responsibilities under the Sanitation Code (Philadelphia, 2010). S.W.E.E.P supports and improve individual and community hard work to continue make a clean City. Plastic is the basic need of our day to day life. A clean community will better place to live and work. Keeping our community in West Philadelphia litter-free will enhance the city's image and cost-effective strength. Agreement with the sanitation laws is also cost effective, since keeping litter off the streets to begin with is less expensive than cleaning it up. S.W.E.E.P will provide trained civilian officers meet with the community for the learning the responsibilities of recycling. S.W.E.E.P officers will work with the community to addressing the why...
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...inform the community that we the people should start a charity to help fundraise and build the community so that it can become a well structured environment for the kids. Also in this process it should help the communities stop what we call “violence”. We will name this “Stop the Violence Movement”. I. First I will begin and break down the term “Violence” and where did the “Stop the Violence Movement come from”. This will give the people a little insight and some background of how Violence got to be so bad that African-American men took charge and stood up for the community so that the poor communities could become better places to live. II. Furthermore as we continue to the stop the violence trait we understand that if the parents and children see that we are trying to do the community good, they will see that and want to join in and volunteer and the way we work we could “BUILD AN EMPIRE”. All we need is a little support and hard workers to campaign and we could change that way things are in the neighborhoods. III. On the next topic we will begin to see that advertisement has a lot to do with what how the kids go about their ways of life. We should advertise the good instead of advertising the bad. Seems like when we turn on the news we see nothing but bad things and that is caused because no one steps up and takes charge in anything and it’s time to make a stand and stand up for the community. The Transition: I will teach how if we save the community how many...
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...Prompt: If you attended Villanova, how would you make the noun "community" become a verb? To me, the word community defines a group of individuals who have something in common, whether it be location, likes and dislikes, or goals. “Community” should be defined by what the people do, rather than what they are. If I could edit the dictionary, I would change “community, noun,” to “community, verb, to make meaningful connections and relationships, to bond through shared interests and experiences, and work together to effect change.” The first part of my definition of community is “to make meaningful connections and relationships.” At Villanova, I plan to form these relationships in the classroom and outside it, as well as beyond the campus in the...
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...Welcome to WritePoint, the automated review system that recognizes errors most commonly made by university students in academic essays. The system embeds comments into your paper and suggests possible changes in grammar and style. Please evaluate each comment carefully to ensure that the suggested change is appropriate for your paper, but remember that your instructor's preferences for style and format prevail. You will also need to review your own citations and references since WritePoint capability in this area is limited. NOTE: WritePoint comments are computer-generated writing and grammar suggestions inviting the consideration and analysis of the writer; they are not infallible statements of right/wrong, and they should not be used as grading elements. Also, at present, WritePoint cannot detect quotations or block-quotes, so comments in those areas should be ignored. Please see the other helpful writing resources in the Tutorials and Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence. Thank you for using WritePoint. Starbucks: A Responsible Company Represented by Their Enacted Values Stephanie White BCOM/230 Hannah Rosette August 20, 2012 Starbucks:...
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...last door on the left.” My heart was pounding at the speed of Usain Bolt’s 100 meter time as the hallway got shorter and dimmer. My hands were covered with beads of anticipation filled sweat. The click clack of my shoes got louder. The air turned thin. I was as tense as a spider monkey on the hunt for some mouth watering wild berries. Violent gasps were escaping my mouth as I reached the old heavy wooden door. Behind this door contained some key elements that could shape my future. My eyes wide and with an awkward school photo smile, I entered the room. The room was pitch dark except for the low glow of a projector. All 100 pairs of white eyes turned and stared at me like I had committed an outstanding crime. I peeped “Is this the community service meeting?” A slow and shaky head nod confirmed my suspicion. Taking my cold, hard, metal seat, the presentation resumed. While sitting there on the cold hard metal seat, my mind began to race. The nerves soon overtook my mind and I contemplated leaving. I cleared my clustered mind and began listening to this wonderfully mysterious speaker. The more she talked the calmer I became and I actually became intrigued by her message. This group’s main mission is philanthropy. I hadn’t heard that word much before and my curiosity peaked. While the presentation continued, the speaker kept on repeating one phrase, ”Only all of us can make a difference.”. I had gotten a little annoyed at the phrase until I realized what message came with...
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...COMMUNITY Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB), passion for supporting vibrant and thriving communities started back in 2007 with founder Christian Ettinger. For the past ten years HUB has been actively participating in corporate social responsibility (CSR) supporting several bike-and-walk programs, local schools, and providing employees with volunteer opportunities in the neighborhood. Employer Supported Volunteering Employer supported volunteering refers to companies supporting their employees to volunteer their time and skills to serve their community. Employee volunteering is a rising trend that companies from all over the world, from all kinds of different industries, are giving careful consideration to. Getting up close and personal with the...
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...The Role of a Community Counselor Donte Love Abstract The purpose of this paper is to address the role and function of the community counselor. Additionally, the framework of the community counseling model is taken into account, including some of the strategies used in community counseling. The Role of a Community Counselor Community counseling can be defined as “…a comprehensive helping framework that is grounded in multicultural competence and oriented toward social justice (Lewis, Lewis, Daniels, & D'Andrea, 2011). While this definition may serve as a starting point, any meaningful understanding of the role and function of a Community counselor requires more than a brief description or a cursory glance at a definition. The community counseling model is based on four fundamental assumptions and several concepts. The first assumption is: “1. Human development and behavior take place in environmental contexts that have the potential to be nurturing or limiting” (Lewis et al., 2011). This assumption refers to the connection between people and their environment and its potential to act as a source of support or as a limiting factor on their development. The community counseling model effectively deals with the environmental factors that have an influence on the development of problems that people encounter. “2. Even in the face of devastating stress, people who are treated respectfully can demonstrate surprising levels of strength and access resources that a pessimistic...
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... STUDENT NUMBER: UNIQUE NUMBER: MODULE: COMMUNITY AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY YEAR: Table of content Page no INTRODUCTION This essay will compare and contrast the community psychology and public health approaches to social problems. It will start by giving the historical development of the community psychology and public health; and then state the differences and similarities of both the approaches to social problems and how they supplement and complement each other. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH The community psychology originates from the United Sates of America’s reform movements that occurred from the 1800s to the 1960s. These reform movements amongst others are known as moral movement treatment, mental hygiene, and deinstitutionalization. These movements brought about the changes or further development of the community psychology approach to social problems. The public health constitutes of four regimes and they are known as the Sanitary Science; Social medicine; Community and a new socio- ecological model. These regimes originate from South African over the past fifteen decades. The regimes of Public health are an overlapping development of the public health that eventually came to place in the 1990s. DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES OF THE COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS The community psychology uses four different models to approach...
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...to express some concern about my community and hopefully some insight as to how we can fix the epidemic of health and issues in our local community. Health promotion programs often lack a clearly specified theoretical foundation or are based on narrowly conceived conceptual models. For example, lifestyle modification programs typically emphasize individually focused behavior change strategies, while neglecting the environmental underpinnings of health and illness (Stokols, 1994). The ecological approach focuses on the population-level and individual level determinants of health and intervention. It has also been said that a population can achieve long-term health improvements when people become involved in their community and work together to effect change (Hanson, 1998-89). After looking at the Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiative video it opened up my eyes. The video showed how certain communities are using a technology called Photovoice. It helps different members of the community show others what is happening there with hopefulness that it will get the messages reached out to others. It really helps by showing the legislatures and congressmen in their area what is going on in the communities around them. It’s a great tool that can promote safety and awareness. I really loved the fact that there are people out there that really want to help the communities where they live and how working together can turn their community into a healthy and safe place to...
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...cognitive understanding of community has shattered and turned into his worst nightmare. The result is a potent exposition of the effects of globalization on transnational interactions, community identity, and urban space. Paired with Zilberg’s ethnographic study of Maras and Marreros across borders, Sin Nombre suggests that forced trans-nationality and the associated evolution of multifaceted identity politics are propelling modern society away from an identification of individuals based on nationality (where they live) and instead by Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities (who and what they live with). The characters presented in both the movie and Zilberg’s study represent threats to their respective social orders and are therefore confronted with a forced separation from their communities and homes. Willy (the gangster in Sin Nombre) threatened the hierarchical structure of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) by killing his superior. His options were to attempt exile or to accept death. Weasel (a subject in Zilberg’s study), proved to hold a disregard for American laws by ending up in jail. In the eyes of the authorities in the USA, his legal status as a resident did not change the fact that he (and his cronies) made Los Angeles a more dangerous place. The problem for these characters, however, is not the loss of the physical space that they are accustomed to, but the loss of a social community. Benedict Anderson describes such a community as a cognitive artifact. In...
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...The Brownsville Community Council was created in 1996. The council was established with the goal of addressing poverty and crime in the neighborhood. Welfare, voting rights, and housing were arranged for the community. In additions, parks were built and a local newspaper established for the members of the community. No matter the attempts for social change, Brownsville took a turn for the worse. The crime and the violence escalated in Brownsville. As the death rate rised due to violence within the community, the residents began rioting. The education system was also failing at this time. The school systems shut down, and members of the community were given control of the school system for a brief period of time. Segregation deepened, and many...
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...Community Nursing in the 53218 Zip code University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee College of Nursing NURS 415 David Deau, Elizabeth Kuss, Blessing Lee, PaKou Lo, Nygil Matthews, Terresa Novak, Dami Olaniyi, Edith Sardea, Tiffany Theard, and Houa Xiong November 30, 2012 Community Nursing in the 53218 Zip code Each community has its own positive and negative features. The zip code community of 53218 is no exception. Some of those positive features of the 53218 community has prospective features such as its existing available clinics, multipurpose community centers, such as the Silver Spring Community Center, and numerous outreach programs through organizations including Growing Power and the Milwaukee Outreach Center. Unfortunately, it is still considered one of ten zip codes in the Milwaukee County designated in the “lower socioeconomic status” group as reported in the Milwaukee Health Report (Chen, et al., 2011). The lower SES group, including 53218, as a whole is at risk for (1) a growing rate of obesity related to a poor nutritional lifestyle, (2) a continually decreasing gynecological health among the female population between ages 12 and 19 related to a lack of enforced education and rising teen pregnancy-related issues, and (3) a consistently low level of neighborhood safety related to motor vehicle accidents and rising crime rates. Community Strengths The community of 53218 has three main areas of strength: (1) several available clinics, (2) an abundance...
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