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leadership. Jackson’s plan is to continue providing the residents of Miami-Dade County with the best quality care possible by creating ways to satisfy their healthcare needs (Community Health Needs Assessment, 2015, para. 1). In 2015, Jackson collaborated with the Health Council of South Florida to orchestrate a health needs assessment to evaluate areas that can be improved to better serve the residents of Miami-Dade County (Community Health Needs Assessment, 2015, para. 2). In result of the…

It was a warm, summer day in Boone County, West Virginia. I was just a kid at the age of four at the time. I was living with my mother, and we are going to court for some reason. It was in Charleston, West Virginia and we had to be there by six o' clock. I did not know what was going on until my teen years. I never understood why we went to court, but the next thing I knew was that I was living with my dad. My dad lived in Wyoming county, West Virginia, but instead of living with my dad, I lived…

Homelessness is an issue that goes back as far as the 1640s. The County of Los Angeles has been trying to combat the issues of homelessness for decades. The total estimated number of people experiencing homelessness in “Los Angeles County” according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) is “46,874, an overall increase of 2,515 people or 5.7% from 2015 (44,359)” LAHSA.ORG (2016). Although many programs have been developed over the years, the numbers continue to increase for…

On Wednesday, March 7th, I took place in an interview with the Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office. There were three interviewers that conducted this interview, over Facetime, this afternoon at 3:39 pm, which were Debra, Steve and Peter. The interview process began with Peter Inouye, in which he introduced the other interviewers and then began the interview questions by asking me to introduce myself. In response, I let them know that I was a senior at the University of California, Irvine…

The Bexar County population is almost two million and is expected to grow one more million by the year 2020. With the expected growth in population we can expect for the homeless population to also grow. Laura Calderon from Heaven for Hope said that they service an average of 1,200 Homeless per month and 25 percent of this are women. (2017) According to the Journal of General Internal Medicine, “women are one of the fastest growing groups in the homeless population”. (Lewis et al. 2003) This…

The documentary of The Lost Children of Rockdale County was about a syphilis outbreak back in 1996 that happened in an urban area of Atlanta Georgia. The outbreak affected over 200 teenagers. Parents did not know that their children were getting involved in premarital sex, group sex, drinking and taking drugs. Without this outbreak of syphilis, the community of Rockdale would have not known that their children were behaving deviant. While watching this documentary, I was shock at how young the…

University High School. He was a member of the varsity basketball team. They won the state championship of private schools in 1973. Sheriff Clarke and his wife, Julie Clarke, both live in a home they built together in the northwest side of Milwaukee County. His Law Enforcement career began in 1978 at Milwaukee Police department (MPD).David Clarke has 38 plus years of in the law enforcement. During his decade plus…

Hard Times in Humboldt County depicts an issue that arises often in different type of industries. When demand is high and supply is plentiful, one of the variables are bound to change. Once that has happened, people within that industry face hardship and must adapt or fail. The video has a vintage feel, however the 1980’s was not that long ago. Within the last 30 years, society has changed its thoughts in some ways and have stayed stubbornly the same in others. For centuries, civilizations have…

Student: Gretel Herrera- Martinez Panther ID: 3339147 " HIV in Miami- Dade County" HIV is the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). You can become infected with HIV through the exchange of blood, semen and vaginal secretions with a person infected with the virus, for example by having sex or sharing needles to inject person. Pregnant women infected with HIV can also pass the virus to their babies during birth or through breast milk. HIV attacks the immune system so…

While I was waiting for a slot to open up, I went into the Air Force Active Reserve as a Target Intelligence Analyst and at the same time I joined the Bell County Sheriff’s Office, working in the “old” old Jail, built in the early 1900’s. In 1996 I received 60 stiches cause by inmates during a jail escape. Unluckily for them I still was able to remember something that had happened early in the evening and that…