Personal Narrative: My Clinical Community Service Observation

I have chosen to perform my windshield survey on the neighborhood in the city of Hartford on which I will be doing my clinical community service rotation at a Immaculate Conception homeless shelter. This neighborhood is located on the southwest part of the city of Hartford and is part of the Frog Hollow neighborhood. I have visited this neighborhood two times since I have started my classes this semester and most of my visits have been done during the daytime. I what my sisters like to call “paranoid” so I do not feel safe driving to places at night that I don't know anything about it. The neighborhood is very busy and lots of people on the streets and it is a high traffic areas with lots of cars and busses around.
I have noticed there …show more content…
I did not notice many primary care providers’ offices in the area or any buildings that would indicate otherwise, but I did notice a building close by that has providers for the community but I am wondering how many patients they see in a day. There is a CVS type of pharmacy in the area that would give them access to a local pharmacist It they should have any questions on prescription medications. In the homeless shelter groups at least the one I will be working with there are social workers available to the community. I am not sure of yet if they provide help for just anyone or just the group I will be attending to. Although that will be very interesting to find out what kind of services are available to the community. I also observed some homeless shelters in the area making an easy access for places for people to stay and sleep specially during the cold winter months.
This neighborhood seem to be predominantly Hispanic population for the reason that I was able to observe that there are a lot of Hispanic restaurants in the area, making easy access to poor quality food. Most of the Hispanic foods include fried food, high carbohydrates foods and unhealthy amounts of sodium and fats in their cooking. On which this population have a high risk for developing …show more content…
Within patients whom suffer from mental health there is an increase of alcohol and drug use. I believe this neighborhood has a high rate for drug abuse, having access to drugs with in the city is prominent specially since there is an increase in heroin overdose with many city within the state. Alcohol abuse is another serious issue in this community since I was able to notice lots of bottles found on the ground in the streets. Some concerns would be the lack nutritional values due to having lots of access to fast food restaurants and lack of housing, no grocery stores available in the area. I would also be concerned with home safety issues related to the high increase in homeless population and drug addicts, which lead to increase rate in theft and mortality