Community-supported agriculture

Community Context Matters In the six levels of Spectrums of Prevention, each level is connected to the other levels and reinforces each other. Therefore, my interventions are specifically tailored to the Latino students at Fairfield High community. Prior to implement any intervention, the most important thing is to educate students about the consequences of obesity. Once students fully understand the risks and consequences of obesity and maintaining unhealthy body, they will be motivated to…

Chapter 7 and 8 in The Practicum Companion gave some very important and insightful points. Chapter 7 was on working in groups while in the field. One of the main points discussed was expectations for practice with groups. They gave four examples of models that social workers may fulfill they were, social action/goals model, reciprocal goals model, and remedial goals model. Another point discussed was learning the factors that come along with group practice. The chapter discussed important…

beings to create an atmosphere of enriched community. The tour at Brain Coyle Center has been a unique experience. There were a few knowns and a lot of unknowns. My initial thought process going to the center was, I have been there before to play basketball, what else can I learn. How naïve of me, because there were more to the center than I could ever imagine. This experience has taught me a lot, but also gave me somethings to think about in the Cedar community. All the speakers did a great…

There are some different types of identity in the society. People can maintain the identity as a member of a community such as a country or religion, and the identity as an individual, or personality. Thus, the theme of identity can be argued in some ways. For example, “First Muse,” the poem written by Julia Alvarez is about the Mexican-American girl who faces the problem to have her identity as an American. The Catcher in the Rye, the novel written by J. D. Salinger, is also based on the…

This chapter examines literature categories that are directly on indirectly related to the study. It analyses and explores historical perspectives of street children and the emergence of street families in Kenya and other developing countries. For the purpose of this study, a street child is any child who uses the street as a working place and carries out different activities to earn a living for themselves and their families, either on a full-time or part-time basis. These street families…

have spent my time volunteering at Dr. Amy Waterman’s research lab, which has recently transitioned into a part-time job, providing me with valuable research and work experience. Furthermore, shadowing physicians and volunteering at Kids Come First Community Health Center have provided clinical experiences that reaffirm my desire to become a physician. In preparation for communicating with more of my future patients, I have polished my Chinese and have been teaching myself Spanish. I grew up…

Prompt: Why is community service such an important part of an effective civic culture? Elizabeth Andrews once said, “Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart” (cite). The interests, passions, and determination lying within one’s soul motivates others to make worthy decisions that promote a civic culture. Since the existence of mankind, dedicated individuals have been selflessly serving others to “pay it forward” to their communities. People volunteer for a variety…

marginalizing their immediate communities. Offering services to focus on the issues that affect the characteristics of societies is done through different means. Specifically, the five arts organizations in this study established themselves as agents of change to address the existent disparity in their communities. Art is the language these leaders and their organization use to cultivate a relationship and nurture positive changes as well as personal growth in their communities. It is…

volunteerism, and community service are similar since they offer help with the needs of the environment to society or communities. While working on those needs, we get to learn and gain not only knowledge, but a formation of moral and civic values. By performing service learning, volunteerism, or a community service, we have the opportunity to interact with people who failed to get a job that month, people who do not have sufficient resources, and with members of communities that are not legal…

with Verigin, another leader/novelist of the Doukhobors making the Doukhobors the largest single mass migration in Canada’s history. Verigin led his followers to the southern parts of B.C. here was where he bought land and created a self-contained community made up of over 6,000 Doukhobors. Later on a tiny amount of Doukhobors left and made their own farms and became independents. When they showed up in Canada they were supposed to register for individual homesteads instead of living…