volunteering at Kid’s Café. Four years ago‚ the leaders at my church‚ Jamestown United Methodist‚ felt a need to step beyond our church doors and help our community. After searching for a location‚ they selected Parkview Elementary School‚ a Title I‚ highly impacted‚ low income school with a high percentage of free and reduced lunch students. After planning for a year‚ we opened Kids’ Café at Parkview right next to my high school‚ Penn Griffin School for the Arts. I knew I wanted to volunteer. Many of the
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semester‚ I have been learning about more writing techniques to use for essays. I am trying to get all the skills I can to prepare me for other prompts from now until college. I have learned a fair amount of new things that can help to make my writing better. Now I look to apply these methods to what is given to me and I hope to succeed in my written works. How has your writing improved this semester? Our first legitimate essay in English was about Homer’s The Odyssey. To accomplish this‚ I had to
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Explain the importance of a child or young person centred approach. Schools must embed in a child what acceptable and unacceptable behaviour is. A child or young person who is on the ‘at risk’ register or who have been identified as being at greater risk need to be supported by school and outside agencies where needed. All agencies have to consider the ways in which their approach is child-centred‚ for example‚ involving a child in meetings‚ asking them what they think of situations and decisions
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always been wanted to work in the Central Montessori Child Care. When searching for a job of teaching young kids recently‚ I learned that a part-time teacher assistant position is currently available. Although I am a student‚ I am still available to work 10-15 hours a week. I believe that my previous work experience‚ my excellent academic achievement‚ and my love for working with kids will make me a great member of the Central Montessori Child Care’s team. As you will see from the enclosed résumé
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Issac Oliva StrengthsFinder Reflection My five strengths are; 1) Includer 2) Empathy 3) Belief 4) Responsibility 5) Woo. I feel that the StrengthsFinders test somewhat accurately described my strength of “Includer”. I suppose that I could be an includer in the sense that I do evangelize every so often. I also lead a bible study for high schoolers and I like to promote participation from everybody. Sometimes it is hard for me to understand the feelings that others have‚ but when I can relate I know
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tensions festering across the globe. While the immediate causes of WWII were manifold‚ they were deeply rooted in the aftermath of the Great War. Additionally‚ Japan’s calculated decision to force the United States into the conflict through the attack on Pearl Harbor further escalated the already brewing tensions. The war‚ its consequences‚ and the decisions made during this time had profound and lasting effects on both domestic and international affairs. Immediate and Underlying Causes of WWII‚ Relating
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varied aged youth are disposed into foster care for a variety of reasons such as uncontrolled behaviors‚ parental/caretaker abuse‚ neglect and/or substance dependence of a parent/caretaker. Intended to be impermanent‚ arrangements [foster care placement] are with an understanding of the primary goal being that of reunification with the parent/caretaker in the majority cases. Contrariwise‚ an ever-increasing percentage of youth entering the foster care system are unable to succeed in reunifying
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“Under the Child Care Act 1991 as amended by the Child and Family Agency Act 2013 the Child and Family Agency (Tusla) is charged with ensuring the health‚ safety and welfare of pre-school children attending services.”(Citizens information‚ 2016) Preschool regulations aim to ensure that every preschool service meets the quality standard‚ provide a suitable environment setting for preschoolers to develop their physical‚ social-emotional‚ and cognitive domains. There are a few specific legal requirements
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Introduction Spiritual care is an integral part of human life and a vital aspect of holistic care in nursing homes (especially with patients who have dementia). A number of studies have investigated the thoughts of spirituality and religiosity‚ however‚ few studies have been done to describe how nurses provide spiritual care in clinical practice. Dementia‚ according to Ødbehr‚ Kvigne‚ Hauge‚ and Danbolt (2015)‚ is characterized as memory impairment‚ impaired communication‚ and orientation‚ leading
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Foster Care‚ and its effects on the children and families involved‚ are debatable topics in our country. Foster parenting is where a child is placed into a new home because of danger in their own home. There may be physical‚ emotional‚ and mental consequences for the child‚ the biological parents‚ and the foster parents. Usually‚ children are put into foster care because of child abuse‚ drug abuse‚ or another situation which puts the child’s safety at risk. Foster care may also be an option when
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