The Cornerstone Family Ministries main objective is to positively influence the lives of disadvantaged children and their families in the community by nurturing young bodies, developing young minds, and fostering hope through Christ. They envision a future where underprivileged children in the Tampa community will have access to healthy food choices, a quality early education, and connections to a local church (Cornerstone Family Ministries, n.d.). Services/Programs Offered The Rosa Valdez Early Childhood Learning Center is open Monday through Friday. The center provides child care, school readiness programs, and family support services to children, birth to five years of age. The center emphasizes strong Christian values and preparing students socially, emotionally, and academically for kindergarten.…
Ever since I was little, I’ve always wanted to help people. Being a Boy Scout gave me the opportunity to do so. When I was eight years old I joined the cub scouts which began my life long campaign of helping people. I started off learning to take the oath to serve the people weather it be by the organization or myself. I assisted by selling popcorn for charity organizations ( The San Antonio Food Bank and The Knights of Columbus) or for money that we needed for our camp out trips.…
1. I participated in the Community Connections pre fall program during my freshman year. I also attended the Encounter with Christ retreat during my freshman year. I attend mass every Sunday and am involved with volunteer services. In addition to working with the volunteer services office, I also do a large amount of service work with my sorority Theta Phi Alpha.…
In the past few years, I’ve volunteered with a variety of organizations from National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, and Key Club. I have also co-founded a Community Outreach Club at high school. Through the Church I’ve assisted with Vacation Bible School and middle school retreats. One of my favorite memories came from volunteering for the first time with National Spanish Honor Society. Choosing to participate in this program was not a difficult decision, since I knew I wanted to continue practicing my Spanish and volunteer in the community at the same time.…
This summer, I worked as a JCIT at the BSAFE summer program. BSAFE is a summer program for kids from kindergarten to 5th grade, where they are taught school subjects and go on a field trip every day. A JCIT is a junior counselor-in-training, so my job was to assist the leader with the kids and clean and prepare activities for them. JCITs are closer in age to the kids, so they usually confided in us with their questions and concerns. Being a JCIT helped me gain a lot of patience and allowed me to learn to help with things even when I'm not directly asked to do so.…
For our civic engagement project for the Redefining Leadership class, my group, Stephanie, Hailee, Christina, and I, decided to volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House in New Haven, Connecticut on a Thursday. Before we got there, we did not know what to expect, but afterwards, we truly felt grateful that we helped out a great cause. The Ronald McDonald House is a charity house that keeps families close to their family members that are being treated at a nearby hospital. We spoke with someone who works at the House and she told us that eight families were there on that day. We were able to see some people and did what we could to help out.…
Service is something that is near and dear to my heart, and this trip was no exception. My FYS group and I went to a local non for profit Atlas (Attaining Truth, Love, And Self-control) to do projects they needed done. This organization works with troubled people who need a mentor or a shoulder to lean on. Because they are a non for profit and are very busy, the people on pay roll didn’t have the time to do yard work or extra jobs around the building.…
Keeping weapons out of the classroom and into professionals’ hands removes the risk of students finding and firing weapons. The evidence is clear that having armed security guards cuts response time and keeps children safe without having the distraction to the teachers inside the…
There has always been some level of student’s misconduct in school; however school recently changed the methods and polices to deal with delinquent behavior. Schools implemented zero tolerance policies which are punitive and based on deterrence theory. Therefore, many juveniles receive harsh punishments such as expulsion, suspension, and entrance to the juvenile justice system; creating the school-to-prison pipeline. The school-to-prison pipeline has damaging effects on an individual as the student is pushed out of schools; many students then find it difficult to gain an education and become stigmatized within society, thus pushing them to further delinquency. This pipeline tends to contribute to the racial and learning capability disparity…
Gun Violence on campus has been a recurring issue in the past several years with several instances of the mass shooting like the ones in Arizona state university and on Virginia tech. “.Timothy Wheeler wrote a piece called “There 's a reason they choose schools” which was published On May 1,2007,in the issue of National Review. In this article,Wheeler talks about how there may need to be a need to allow guns on campus so we can better protect ourselves against shooters. Another piece used is the poster “Gone but not forgotten”published by Amy Dion at Northern Illinois university in the UCDA campus violence poster project.…
Faith in Action Paper I spent my 15 faith service hours volunteering for Feed My Starving Children and I helped the maintenance crew around the school. While I did this I made new friends and grew as a person as well as in my faith. I probably spent about 8 or more of my service hours volunteering for Feed My Starving Children. Before when I was younger, I would go in because my older sister needed service hours and scoop some veggies and powder into a funnel for an hour and a half. Then after the session my sister would have me walk up to the counter and ask for a slip of paper with the service hours on it, so she give them to her school’s counselor and get the hours out of the way faster.…
Why do you want to be a retreat leader? I would like to help people to have a true understanding of their faith. Many people are unsure of themselves, if they even want to be Catholic. I want to go help them with any questions that they might have. I also have an experience to share that I will highlight below (#8).…
If guns were allowed on campuses, students would have to live in constant fear of a shooting on campus. For my personal audience, I will write a letter to my friend Haley discussing a survivor’s standpoint on the school shooting that occurred in Umpqua Community College. This will appeal to my friend’s sense of pathos while also raising the point that guns should not be…
Every week this past summer I spent eight hours volunteering in Parkview 's outpatient pharmacy. My responsibilities included: restocking over the counter medications, organizing filled prescriptions, and assisting customers with their transactions. Through volunteering I met some outstanding mentors and felt as if I really made a difference to the employee’s at Parkview and the patients they treat. Being a part of Phi Delta Chi philanthropy committee allowed me to help plan and be a part of a variety of volunteer experiences. This last year our group assisted in Boo at the Zoo and Springification.…
During my childhood and lower teens, I was very involved in church. I would go to every event or meeting put on by our church. Watching certain senior youth members, I didn’t understand why they would just come to the fun events. I would only see them during our mission trips or camps, but never at business or regular meetings. Then I promised myself that I would always stay as active as I could.…