The Cal-works program promotes work and employment preparation for parents in penurious families with children. In fact, through employment and community resources the program aims to reduce the number of families living in poverty. However, there are several conditions affecting the Cal-works population in the Imperial Valley County, such as the high unemployment rates, the participants’ socioeconomic disadvantages and the absence of vocational/educational programs available for this population. The goal of the Basic Computer Skills and Employment Readiness program is to fill the gap in the lack of sustainable programs for the Cal-works population created by the shortage of educational, employment, and socioeconomic opportunities within the target area. Our program’s model embodies a …show more content…
Therefore, there are several considerations related to cultural competence that need to be addressed in providing services to the Cal-works population. For example, as of July 1, 2015, the US Census Bureau estimated a total of 180,191 residents in Imperial Valley. Out of this total, 82.3% of the population was Hispanic/Latino. Hence, Spanish is the predominant language spoken among residents. Consequently, programs designed for this particular population should have bilingual (English/Spanish) staff as to effectively approach and address identified concerns. In other words, programs developed to provide vocational/ educational trainings to this population should be culturally competent, flexible to make modifications as needed and accommodate participants, especially those with learning disabilities, cultural differences and lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Unless these participants receive a suitable and evidence based research interventions, they will continue to struggle in becoming
I believe that the dilemma is simple: a student challenges the school official authority. I said simple because not for the dilemma’s complexity rather for the regularity with which a young behave in a rebellious manner.
The court appeals for the Sixth circuit side with the retirees after reading International Union, United Auto, Aerospace, & Agricultural Implement Workers of Am. v. Yard-Man, Inc., 716 F. 2d 1476, 1479 (1983). The court used Yard-Man’s reasoning because the court believed that Yard-Man inferences’ matched context M&G Polymers case. In addition, the union concluded that the language used is not reasonably susceptible to more than one interpretation and the court must order M&G to reinstate contribution-free health care benefits for retirees.
Just following up on our discussion on Friday regarding Which agencies should be memo billed VS direct billed in FY 15-16. One of the action items from that meeting was you will confirm with DOB that all funds identified for FY 15-16 for ITS was already received. Please let me know the status, so I can schedule a follow up meeting to finalize this
UCM: CPSW did a home visit again and talked with Annette regarding her relationship with her mother Ms. Clifton. Annette stated that some times that they both disagrees on things and that and than Annette gets upset with her mother. CPSW talked about therapy with Annette and Ms. Clifton. Annette looked at her mother when this therapy talked about family therapy with her mother Ms. Clifton. Ms. Clifton refused to participate with Annette any family therapy. Ms. Clifton stated that Annette has anger issues and that they don't need family therapy at this time. Annette was very quite and mostly was looking her mother's responses regarding family therapy. CPSW told Ms. Clifton andf Annette to think about it and that we will talk about it on next
S: YMR stated that she had been living with her mother about one year, has is a newcomer. YMR lived with her maternal grandmother for many years back in her country. YMR stated that when she arrived to the U.S., she found out that her mother was pregnant, She shared that her mother did not want to tell her because she did not know how the client was going to react. YMR stated that she was happy because her mother had had four miscarries before. YMR explained that almost at the same time that she started living with her mother, the mother's partner and father of the child that her mother was going to have moved into her home. YMR stated that her mom used to work from 6am-12pm and the YMR spent a lot of time with her mother's partner. YMR stated that this man has
In the field of human services, “cultural competency” has become a common buzz meant to address in part the . The intention being, that workers are able to achieve some level of knowledge and training that prepares them to work with
Understanding a community is essential when planning for instruction. My current placement is at Kofa High School which is a located in an urban community –Yuma, Arizona- with an estimated population of 93,000 people. It is fundamental to recognize that Yuma’s population mostly consists of Hispanic and White people. Although English is mostly spoken in this area, Spanish is commonly heard in the community due to the high Hispanic population.
CalWORK, a case study describes the behaviors and perspectives of the group, as whole, instead of focusing on individual members (Mertens, 2014).
It have been proven effective in providing services to individuals from a wide spread of diverse backgrounds. Cultural competence is understanding a set of congruent behaviors, knowledge, attitudes and policies that enable effective work in cross-cultural situations (Bazron, Cross, Dennis, & Isaacs, 1989). This means that an individual trains to understand different cultural groups. Cultural competency training is beneficial to all human service organizations because it aims to increase the knowledge and skills to improve one’s ability to efficiently serve different cultural groups therefore eliminating biases and
For instance, the majority of employees at Rincon Family Services, speak very well the Spanish language. That skill of speaking Spanish, allows us to communicate with the Hispanic population, the same that does not have access to other facilities in which their staff is not proficient in the Spanish language. Not only, to speak Spanish approaches more us to the clients, but also providing mental health therapy in Spanish is recognized as an element of the quality of patient care.
The purpose of chapter 11 in Lum (2011) is to discuss cultural competence work with Latino Americans. The growth of the Latino population in the United States has been greatly increasing. As of 2008, 15.1% of the United States population is Latino. Some concerns that elderly Latinos may face are: “family roles, health, caregiving, end of life issues, protective factors, and effective interventions” (p. 309). Many of the Central American Latino grandparents have not completed high school, which has left them unemployed. Social workers who serve this group, should become more aware of the historical discrimination that this population has faced.
In the preparation of writing this paper, I reviewed several educational videos from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (n.d.) that show healthcare providers interacting with patients from different cultures. I chose the video that shows a Hispanic man interacting with his surgeon. I chose this video because all counties in Ohio except one are seeing increases in the Hispanic population. There has been a nine
When looking at the Hispanic/Latino ethnic groups some may think they are all from the same country because of their culture, and the fact that many speak Spanish. However, this is not the case, and when looking at the unique features associated with each ethnic group, it is easy to see the differences between them. All of the Latino/Hispanic ethnic groups have differences and this can even be heard in the dialect used to speak Spanish, such as the case when listening to Puerto Ricans and Mexicans speaking Spanish. In an effort to have a better understanding of elder Mexicans, this paper will look at the Mexican sub-culture, and the features associated with the family dynamics, gender roles, acculturation patters, as well as religious contemporary issues such as taking care of an elder family member. We will examine ways to engage, assess, discuss ways of intervention, and review ways to ensure that effective evaluations are completed.
“We have a high diversity of ethnicities within our school which is seen by the fact that we have more than 30 languages spoken within our ESL department. We are also a Title school so we have many transient students, Atlas students, and economically disadvantaged students many of which need extra services such as RTI interventions, weekend backpack meals, and ESL services.”
This Report is bases in the movie The Intern – Myers, Nancy (Producer & Director). (2015). The Intern [Motion picture]. United States: Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is based on retired 70-year-old widower, Ben Whittaker, who is bored with his retired life. He applies to be a senior intern at an online clothing site and ends up getting the position. The founder of the company is Jules Ostin, a tireless, driven, demanding, dynamic workaholic. Ben is made her intern. She doesn't intend to give him work due to her lack of confidence in his capabilities. However, Ben proves to be quite useful and, more than that, a source of support and wisdom. The following report discusses varying factors that contribute to organizational behaviour; which is a consciously coordinated social unit made up of a group of people work together on common goals who function on a relatively continuous basis.