Category: Human relations

Directions
For this journal reflection, you will do the following:
Describe a movement for positive change that results from branding in the media. (This can include social media.)
Describe the performance space.
Are there conflicting voices or biases in the performance space?
Does the performance space allow people to “talk back”? If so, how?
As you may recall, “talking back” means responding to a dominant narrative with a counternarrative.
Explain how cultural values affect how the movement is perceived.
What cultural values do you see embraced or rejected in the performance space?
How do these cultural values align (or not align) with the movement for positive change?
How has the movement borrowed aspects of different cultures in respectful or harmful ways?

This assignment requires a drawing. I am okay with just a rough draft of where things are and I will take it from there. Sources for this module are attached. 
Cities show a lots about what our values are. You can see the Roman values of public culture, civic pride, and piety in its forums, basilicas, and temples. This assignment will have you create a city according to your own values and compare it to the cities of the Romans. Here is what you need to do:
Make a drawing or plan of your ideal city (it can be modern or futuristic). Be sure to include:
A. at least 7 public buildings (could be town hall, school, church, theaters, sports arena, parks… or none of these, what buildings do you want?)
B. Show the different zones: residential (where people live), commercial (where businesses are), and industrial (where stuff is made)
C. Make sure to show streets and any sort of mass transit you will have
D. Write a paragraph about why your city is the way it is. Compare your city to a Roman city. Make SURE TO MAKE THESE COMPARISONS WITH ROME. YOU WILL NOT GET A GOOD GRADE UNLESS YOU DO! 

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After reflecting on all that you have learned in this course, share what you believe is one current trend in the human services field in meeting the needs of individuals, families, and/or the community. Identify how the trend may impact you in your future position as a nonprofit administrator. In addition, discuss specific ways in which you could improve current service delivery methods in your future position in order to keep pace with trends related to needs of the population.

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What to Submit
Your collaborative care guide should be 6 to 8 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA format. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margin
Final Submission: Collaborative Care Guide
In Module Seven, you will submit your final project. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will be graded with the Final Project Rubric.
Prompt
Based on your analysis of the case study, develop a collaborative care guide in which you assess the client’s needs, make recommendations concerning the interdisciplinary team, and create a follow-up care plan. Remember to use healthcare terminology when appropriate.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Introduction
Based on an analysis of the case study, research and select the most appropriate research-based strategies to use with this client. What are the most effective strategies used with this client population? Why?
Inpatient Assessment
In a narrative format, provide an overview—using a strengths-based focus—to identify the inpatient client needs represented in the context of the case.
What are the central physiological, emotional, social, and environmental issues facing this client?
How will her strengths help her make any needed transitions?
Does trauma impact this client? How?
What potential complexities could the client encounter during her inpatient stay? How will these complexities impact the client?
What types of strategies could you employ in this setting to ensure that the client is not re-traumatized?
Develop effective strategies to address the client’s inpatient financial needs. How can you best facilitate access to recommended services?
What resources might be available in her community to fill unmet financial needs?
Are there state or federal resources available to assist this client?
The Interdisciplinary Team
Based on the case study, ideally who should serve on the interdisciplinary team tasked with developing the client’s care plan? Why?
Analyze the role of each member of the interdisciplinary team in relation to the following:
Improving patient care. For instance, you might consider the role of a team member who would have day-to-day interaction with the client throughout the client’s hospital stay.
Improving patient outcomes. For instance, you might consider the role of a team member who would be responsible for developing cost-effective outcomes.
What strategies should be implemented by the team to ensure the patient understands the terms and outcomes of the post-discharge plan?
Follow-Up Care Plan
Based on all of the client’s needs, create a comprehensive follow-up care plan. Include the following:
Applying best practices, explain the basic post-discharge client needs represented within the case study.
Develop strategies to arrange provision of services to the client.
Develop effective strategies to address the client’s post-discharge financial needs. What strategies will you use to ensure client access to recommended services?
Conclusion
Based on the case study, how would the difficulty of navigating the available resources for both inpatient and discharge needs impact the client?
What long-term effects will the strategies you developed for addressing the client’s inpatient and post-discharge financial deficits potentially have?
Describe the expected outcomes of this care plan.
Academic Reflection
Reflect on your decisions and choices in the care plan based on the forces that have influenced the U.S. healthcare system.
How has the evolution of the U.S. healthcare system positively impacted patients such as the one in this case? Negatively?
Overview
The final project for this course requires you to analyze the provided case study to identify basic client inpatient and post-discharge needs. As you will see, the analysis of this case requires awareness of trauma and recovery and the fundamentals of ongoing care for neurological disorders and resultant paralysis, as well as sensitivity to health and lifestyle issues associated with aging. Based on the identified needs, you will develop a collaborative care guide, including several essential elements. To create this guide, you will assess research findings to identify goals and evidence-based strategies to address these needs or gaps in services for both inpatient and post-discharge care. You will identify the recommendations you will make during the multidisciplinary care planning session, while being sure to address any financial deficits that are identified for the patient. In your work, you will incorporate appropriate medical terminology to enhance comprehension of care plan objectives for all stakeholders.
The project is divided into three milestones, each including elements of the final project. These milestones will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. Milestones will be submitted in Modules Three, Four, and Five. The final product will be submitted in Module Seven.
In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
Illustrate the complexity of navigating the U.S. healthcare system for addressing its impact on patients
Analyze the role of the human services worker and interdisciplinary teams for improving patient care and outcomes
Apply best practices in the creation of inpatient and discharge care plans
Develop basic strategies for addressing financial challenges faced by individual patients
Analyze the forces that have influenced the evolution of the U.S. healthcare system
Case Study
Jean is an 87-year-old woman who was admitted to Manchester Community Hospital, in Manchester, New Hampshire, after having a debilitating stroke that paralyzed the left half of her body. She is a widow, and her three adult children live in different states. She needs assistance eating, transferring to her wheelchair, and most other activities of daily living. Her medical issues related to the stroke are quickly being resolved, and it is time to begin assessing her needs for discharge and post-discharge. It is important to note that Jean’s savings have been totally depleted and her medical bills are mounting since her healthcare insurance has proven to be inadequate to cover her medical expenses. Her limited pension and social security barely covered her living expenses prior to her stroke and are unlikely to cover the escalating expenses that she will undoubtedly encounter based on her medical condition. Moreover, Jean has been clinically diagnosed with PTSD after being raped by a neighbor in her home two years ago. She is still grappling with the effects of the trauma, even as the criminal case against the perpetrator slowly moves forward. Although her family modified the home to make it more secure and less vulnerable to intrusion, her current lack of mobility is weighing heavily on her psychologically. Despite her current issues, Jean derives great comfort from her faith as a devout Catholic. She typically has a wonderful sense of humor and is highly organized, having worked as an elementary school teacher during her earlier years. She participates regularly in the local garden club and on her neighborhood welcoming committee. She has a wide circle of friends with whom she interacts. Her children are currently staying in Manchester to oversee her care and to contribute to the development of her post-discharge care plan. It is unclear whether any of the children will stay on after her discharge to help care for Jean, but this seems unlikely unless considered essential by the medical team. An interdisciplinary team is being developed to design a comprehensive plan for Jean’s post-discharge care.

Throughout the term you will be actively calculating simple statistics and visualizing data. In this first assignment, you will use the attached data set to create a chart and a table of data. Note that formatting is key to data representation. Once you make your calculations and create the chart, interpret the information you observe in a short summary of 250 words.
Download the Demo Data file to create a chart and write a description and interpretation of the data represented.
Download and Save the Excel file to your computer or cloud.
Using the Demo Data file, create a chart that represents the number of fruit eaten per month for each fruit. This should be one (1) chart for all fruit.
Calculate the appropriate measure(s) of central tendency for fruit eaten per month. Sum the total fruit per month eaten. (Hint: Measures of central tendency are applied according to the level of measurement – fruit would be a _______ variable)
Copy the chart, and paste into a Word document as an Excel object.
Create a table in the document that includes the Total fruit eaten, as well as the applicable measure(s) of central tendency. Note: the table should include the names of the(each) measure in conjunction with the calculation.
Describe the data: What is the data about?
Explain why the chart type you selected is most appropriate for the representation of this data.
Explain your measure(s) of central tendency and what they say about the data.
Interpret the data: What does the chart show you? What fruit stands out to you and why?

.In Manchester, NH, several resources are available to assist individuals and families struggling with housing, medical treatment, food and clothing, electricity, and other living costs. Southern New Hampshire Services (SNHS) is a community action agency offering a variety of programs for low-income residents. Their services include the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to help with heating costs, rental assistance through programs like the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, food assistance via food pantries and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) for seniors, and healthcare access through partnerships with local health centers, along with health insurance enrollment assistance. SNHS also provides emergency financial assistance for basic needs, including clothing.  Clients can apply for these services by visiting their office, calling their office, or accessing applications and more information on their website at (https://www.snhs.org).  
Another key resource is Families in Transition-New Horizons (FIT-NH), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing housing and supportive services to homeless individuals and families. FIT-NH operates emergency shelters for immediate housing needs and offers permanent supportive housing solutions combined with supportive services. They provide food assistance through the New Horizons Food Pantry, which distributes groceries to low-income residents, and their soup kitchen, which serves daily meals. Additionally, FIT-NH offers case management to help clients access healthcare, employment, and other essential services. Clients can access FIT-NH services by visiting their Resource Center, calling their office, or visiting their website at (https://www.fitnh.org) for more information and application forms. These organizations offer comprehensive assistance to help residents of Manchester, NH, address their immediate and long-term needs.

The History of Racism in the United States
Purpose: To demonstrate what you’ve learned from our first book-length reading and the extent to which it’s expanded your conceptual framework for understanding race.
Outcomes:
Analyze how individual and structural factors contribute to racial inequity in the United States
Evaluate your own position of marginalization or privilege within the complex social framework of the United States.
Construct a coherently organized thesis-driven essay with a clear sense of purpose.
Analyze the impact of race and socialization on expressions of social position in the United States.
Demonstrate perspective-taking and self-reflection appropriate to context.
Task:  Choose one of the follow prompts and write a 4-5 page essay in response.
The text we’ve read provides great deal of historical perspective on racial politics in the United States. Describe the processes of articulation, containment, rearticulation and rollback and then examine one example of rearticulation and rollback from after the civil rights movement that previously influenced the way you understood the history of racism in the United States. Explain how it impacted your thinking and behavior.
A sizeable portion of the text is dedicated to the meaning of Race – the Ethnicity, Class, and Nation paradigms, the ocular dimension of race, and the way representation has successfully changed, at least in part, the meaning of different racial categories. Explain how the concepts of Racialization and Racial Formation refute the past paradigms, and what these theories help us understand, then examine at least one example of racialization in action and explain the political context.
What can we learn from the social movements of the past? In thinking about the mass protests of 2020, what strategies still seem to work, and which ones don’t? Explain what’s changed that needs to be accounted for: what terms and slogans have been rearticulated? What technologies (whether LRAD sound cannons or smart phones and the tension between our ability to post video on social media and the State’s ability to spy on whoever it choses).
(Bonus option): Put real critical pressure on the idea of race as master category. Must there be a master category? Does this add anything substantial to the conversation? Is it even fair to women? How does it square with the rest of their assessment of women’s rights in the United States?
Criteria for Success:
Demonstrates meta-cognitive critical thinking skills through deep reflection.
Clearly connects individual experiences to structural, cultural, and political contexts.
Completes a final product that is relatively free of typos and grammar errors.
Integrates at least two assigned readings with proper in-text MLA or APA citation conventions and includes a works cited page.
I have a copy of the book needed to write the essay on 

.Hey guys, I interviewed a self-own hair stylist who is making wigs for cancer patients. She is currently doing the paperwork to get started with her business. For now, I will not name the company. 
What did you learn as the result of the interview?
I learned from this interview this person dealt with a person who had cancer. The person who was close to her lost her hair and hope for life. Her sister passed away from cancer years later. She decided to make customized wigs for patients and go into the hospitals and connect with patients. I learned that she can bring life into these patients who are going through something. Making a wig can be uplifting to someone, who loves their hair and can’t handle the situation that is going. 
What is the role of the board of directors?
The board of employees works together as one. The directors meet with corporations to get the okay, while employees prepare for executions of advertisement and marketing. Also, the director’s non-profit is to seek out hospitals that are willing to collaborate with our programs. 
What was the agency’s knowledge of current trends in human services? Do you believe the agency is meeting current trends in human services? Please explain.
this question was not answered. 
Provide one example of how the agency adheres to legal and ethical human services standards in its decision-making processes related to budgeting and/or funding.
When I was interviewing her, she stated she made sure her lawyer was present. In order to solve a legal matter. 1st point of contact will be me. 2nd point of contact is the board. the third point of contact is sponsors lastly employees.

For your initial post, address the following:    
Describe an identity or brand and share how it has shaped your identity or influenced you in other ways.  Pick a brand 
What creative works associated with the identity or brand do you use to help promote the identity or brand? 
What cultural value (positive or negative) has come from the creative works?   
For your response posts, address the following:    
How has the identity or brand your peer described influenced you (or someone you know) similarly or differently than it has influenced your peer? 
How does this identity or brand resonate with cultural values? 
50 words each reply
1. Brandon Ford posted Jun 12, 2024 10:50 AM
One brand that has significantly influenced me is Patagonia, the outdoor clothing and gear company. Patagonia’s commitment to environmental sustainability and social responsibility has shaped my personal values and lifestyle choices. This brand promotes a strong message of conservation and ethical business practices, encouraging its customers to consider the environmental impact of their purchases and activities. I have adopted a more eco-conscious mindset inspired by Patagonia’s mission.
Patagonia produces a range of creative works that promote its identity, including documentaries, books, and campaigns. Notably, their documentary “DamNation” explores the impact of dams on the environment and advocates for the restoration of free-flowing rivers. Another significant campaign is “The Footprint Chronicles,” which provides transparency about the environmental and social impact of Patagonia’s supply chain.
The cultural value derived from Patagonia’s creative works is overwhelmingly positive. They have contributed to a broader awareness and dialogue about environmental sustainability and ethical consumption. Patagonia’s initiatives have inspired other companies to adopt more sustainable practices and have empowered consumers to demand greater transparency and responsibility from brands. On the flip side, there is a challenge in ensuring that the message does not become mere marketing rhetoric, a phenomenon known as “greenwashing.” However, Patagonia’s consistent and genuine commitment helps mitigate this risk.
2. Jake Lamb posted Jun 9, 2024 2:34 PM
Hello everyone!
A brand that I fell in love with that I have worn most of my adult life during many races, including the 2023 Chicago Marathon was the Active Faith Sports Apparel company. My favorite shirt i wear is a dry fit athletic shirt that says my favorite verse on it which is also tattooed on me, Philippians 4:13 I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me. When I wore it for the marathon, I heard spectators yell out great things like “yes you can!’ and “I love that shirt” and  “God is all powerful!” Not only does it promote my faith and get others to see and possibly read the verse or the want to learn more. But it keeps me close to God in my own faith. By surrounding my life with God everywhere I am constantly more aware of the way I think, speak, and treat others. to me wearing the apparel, almost feels like a shield protecting my heart, mind and soul. 
Now more than ever more people are coming to Christianity, and because of putting the christian image out into the public more. Wearing the apparel from this brand and the many others brings a cool style to our everyday lives, as well as keeping God at the center of our day. It has brought a positive impact to the younger generation of students, and those who may feel like they don’t belong anywhere. The clothing brand promotes a positive message and brings a chance for a conversation starter as well.
https://activefaithsports.com/collections/shop-men/products/mens-i-can-tank 
Have a great week everyone!
Jake

.Hello all! I interviewed a friend of mine who has worked for girl’s scout which is a nonprofit organization
What did you learn as the result of the interview?
Through the interview I learned that the mission of this organization is to build up the confidence of girls. It is a group of likeminded people wanting to work together with younger girls to accomplish that. There is a lot that goes into building up, funding and running a nonprofit organization. Theres a lot of planning, fundraisers and ideas that goes into it and its not as simple as it may seem.
What is the role of the board of directors?
The person I interviewed opted not to answer this question. However, upon searching this question this is what I found. Along with the CEO and the Executive Team, GSUSA’s Board of Directors guides the organization in the planning, development, and execution of initiatives and resources to benefit a diverse group of girls, volunteers, and staff across the nation—and the world. (Girl’s Scouts-leadership).
What was the agency’s knowledge of current trends in human services? Do you believe the agency is meeting current trends in human services? Please explain.
The organization works hard to stay on top of current trends and works on offering programs and opportunities to educate our members and families. They previously offered a community-based program called the FAB Factor that was offered in targeted communities such as Lowell, Lynn, Lawrence. These communities were identified to have high school dropouts and high pregnancy. The program we delivered was focused on Health and Wellness, STEM, Financial Literacy and leadership. I believe the agency is staying on top of current trends by always shifting things and staying informed and involved. They seem to be open to new ideas to better the organization.
Provide one example of how the agency adheres to legal and ethical human services standards in its decision-making processes related to budgeting and/or funding.
This question was also not answered in the interview. However, she did mention that they have a CFO and Accounting department which I assume stay on top of things like this and reviews and audits.