Crenshaw Community Reflection

The Crenshaw community is a family of individuals with similar backgrounds who relate to one another through their personal values, reoccurring challenges, and their passion for change. I call this amazing community my home. While growing up in this community, I was faced with several different challenges. One of the most constraining challenges was the perpetuating health dilemma that began to take a toll on my community. There were times where I had to watch many families struggle, having no one to turn to in a community where violence, instead of health, was viewed as the single most vital crisis. As I began to enter a new milestone in my life, high school, the lack of health resources became very clear to me as it began to affect the lives of many of my closest friends.
As a teenager, we were told on various occasions what not to do and why we shouldn’t do it. We were not given advice on what to do if we found ourselves in those unfavorable situations. For instance, finding out that you will soon be a teenage mother in 9 months. During my junior year of high school, I’ve witnessed a large increase in the number of teen pregnancies …show more content…
When tuning in for evening news, we see countless outbreaks of communities, foreign and non-foreign, experiencing a drop in their population. A change must be made and with more academic preparation, I can become that change. As an undergraduate with a public health minor, I will be taught the necessary tools to better assess the health of various communities, identify growing health problems localized in those communities, and create public health policies to help alleviate the issues. A minor in public health will give me the opportunity to become a resource to others, rebuild my community and several other global communities, and give rise to change in the field of