Corporation for National and Community Service

documentary provides a historical account of the U.S criminal justice system following the end of the Civil War, and continuing to the present. The documentary could not have come out at a better time, as the country is currently in the midst of a national discussion of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. The excellence of 13TH is evident in its position as the opening film at the prestigious NY Film Festival, becoming the first non-fiction film to open the festival in its 54…

Throughout chapter one and two the main topic is engineering service in the community. The first chapter talks about the integration between community work and engineering classes within the university setting. The first chapter talks about how engineering classes and community work complement one another and have very beneficial outcomes in the long run. The chapter also highlights some of the key essential attributes for all engineers which consist of understanding engineering design, science…

steadily increasing, organizations, such as Remote Area Medical, are becoming more necessary to meet the demand for healthcare access for all Americans. Remote Area Medical is a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring medical care to needy communities in the form of large “pop-up” clinics, offering general, prevention, vision, and dental care (Reichert & Zaman, 2013). The documentary, Remote Area Medical, brings an awareness to the lack of healthcare access across the United States…

Cities of San Pedro and Torrance The city of San Pedro is a coastal community located in the city of Los Angeles, covering 12.046 square miles. It is port city that is neighbors to the cities of Long Beach and Wilmington to its East, Harbor City to its North, and Ranchos Palos Verdes and Lomita to its West. Housing a portion of the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, is known as a blue collar town. With consideration to national averages the city of San Pedro is considerably high in both violent…

Cure Violence is a violence prevention program that works with communities that have high levels of violence in an effort to address gang violence and reduce retaliatory killings1. This program applies public education, anti-violence slogans “Don’t shoot. I want to grow up.”, conflict mediation and community mobilization activities2. The Cure Violence program is currently active in 25 cities in the United States as well as several international cities3. In New York City, the Cure Violence…

she arrives home from a tedious day at work. After hanging up the phone with her husband, she mentally begins listing the tasks to complete due to the sprung arrival of her in-laws in 2 hours. She recalls a co-worker raving about an errand running service called FlashTask; she logs on and begins the simple process of having the following tasks completed: dry cleaning picked up, a homestyle cooked meal delivered, and groceries for the week. Taking a deep breath of relief, she heads back out to…

He focuses on how to make community corrections work to reduce crime better than our current failed system of mass incarceration 18. According to Kleiman, the current system of mass incarceration is a social problem on the same level as crime itself. Mark Kleiman offers a really effective program of community supervision that could reduce incarceration directly by reducing both revocations and sentences for new crimes…

following financial software firms, recognize the changing marketplace as an opportunity to introduce powerful new solutions as the health care field shifts from a service fee for service to outcome based reimbursement structure. Allscripts Allscripts distributes a user-friendly, feature-rich patient…

Economic Benefits to Nonprofits from Volunteerism Topic 1: Volunteers and the act of volunteering bring multiple benefits to organizations, communities and people. Organizations receive enormous contributions of time, talents and skills. The tools that help nonprofit organizations understand the scale and significance of volunteering need to be invested in and maintained. There is often limitations and reluctance when trying to assign a value to volunteerism. This is a problem that needs to be…

Epidemiology in the community of Hartford Connecticut I have chosen to focus my paper on the city of Hartford Connecticut. Identifying the right data source to obtain information is very important for managing and targeting the right population in the disease management process. Information can be found in many places, but finding credible sources is very important to assess the community and compare to the nationwide problems. Since the introduction of the Internet, we have been able to…