Community youth development

unlawful acts going on in their community. The meeting is a great place for the community and law enforcement officers to interact. The meeting began at 7:30 Pm and was supposed to finish by 9:00 Pm. So, after my professor speaking to the law enforcement officers, they mentioned that we should attend one that they were going to be at Mayfair church on Pulaski and Foster right in front of the…

semester, I participated in serval service-learning events which have broaden my insight on issues within my community. I participated in service-learning events held by Faith in Fresno. The overall mission statement of Faith in Fresno is to “…unlock the power of people to put faith into action in the public square, and to advance a movement for racial justice and health equity.” The community service related events I participated in were Day of Action and Rapid Response Training, which were…

Community satisfaction, especially with the community that is a marriage, is dependent on feeling equal because it establishes a sense of responsibility. Being an equal is very important in relationships and is often a reason for discord; so, developing communities that foster equality will alleviate tension by allowing both parties to express themselves. Many marriages have aspects that promote equality and some that negate it, some to the point of desiring something other than one’s partner.…

Communities and organizations can collaborate to promote resilience with families and children. In order to increase protective factors in a high risk community, it is often necessary for agencies to work together in order to provide comprehensive services. As a human service professional it is important to recognize both the benefit and challenges of providing these services. Communities, agencies, and families can work together to increase the protective factors identified in resilience.…

reading and researching communities, most follow similar general patterns and outlines. The community members are working together for a common goal or they are brought together by corresponding qualities. When I think of the word community it is usually with a positive connotation rather than negative. In Amy Tan’s essay, she introduced a community that her mother was apart of that caused me to rethink my definition of community. Her mother was apart of a community of “broken” and/or…

Many individuals, myself included, will always have family members that can be defined as unusual. Whether it be at family barbecues or even out on a vacation, these family members are customary to making themselves stand out. Uncle Arturo (or 'Art' for short) stands about 6 feet, 2 inches tall, has short and curly black hair that has begun to recede, and has stomach that's as hard as a rock although it bulges out to be as big as a basketball. Uncle Art is notoriously known for his colossal…

How Communities’ Identities Change Over Time What is the generalized other? Well it is the set of beliefs, roles, and norms followed by different cultures and this generalized other changes continuously in many cities around America and the world. For example, London is very modern, so it has a generalized other that is very progressive compared to what it was a few decades ago . Community identity is a very complex force that feeds on cultural changes and people’s ideas and rules and because…

INTRODUCTION The Mississippian rocks of Kansas are regarded as the largest oil producing unit in the Midcontinent. These rocks have produced oil both at the top and within the sequence unit. The name “Chat” is given to these rocks because their high porosity and low resistivity characteristics (Rogers, 2001). Over 6000 well-logs such as neutron, density and resistivity have been studied in Kansas and result shows that the chat is everywhere but lack uniformity. Depositional and diagenetic…

Although we are individuals we are all part of a community. Communities can be seen as things such as the school we go to, our neighborhood, work place, etc. In community conversations, we talk to honor and explore differences with one another. The form of a conversation is dynamic to the way in which participants work through their differences. The Public Conversations Project (PCP) recommends that members follow a shared set of principles that include genuine listening, respectful…

Bloomington is a town, which is full of different kinds of nonprofit organizations, and there are always events that held by those organizations going on daily. It is hard to catch every single event, but because of the large variety of nonprofit organizations, people who live here can have lots of choices to participate into them and experience the voluntarism and altruism at the same time. According to Indiana.edu, there are approximately 1,082 nonprofit organizations at Bloomington (Indiana…