Essays on Community Service

Through the years, I have had several chances of a leadership position. One of my favorite leadership experience was being the captain of our high school football team and being the leader of the youth group from my time at a Christian school. I took the initiative of being the leader of my youth group at my church as I believed I would optimally direct my peers to living a positive life that adheres to Christian values. Through these positions, I attained significant qualities associated with good leadership. The various leaderships traits I obtained through these positions include: being ...

A policing organization is an organization that endorses law enforcement at all levels. Therefore, this organization must do all it can to maintain law by all levels to ensure that people live in peace. Thus, this organization requires perfect leadership skills, with the top management acquiring the best leadership qualities that will be imitated by other personnel, to ensure that the entire department performs its duties excellently. Some of the examples leadership characteristics are responsibilities within policing organization are discussed below (Dobby, Anscombe & Tuffin, 2004). They should be committed to help other people: Law enforcement professional should be dedicated ...

Alternatives to incarceration refer to any punishment for crime, which does not involve sending an offender to prison for a jail term (Joseph and Wesley 15). Such alternatives to incarceration include parole, probation, fines or community service. Having such alternatives to incarceration gives judges a wide range of sentencing options to judges. They also help to reduce congestion in state correctional facilities. Mostly these options are awarded to the less violent offenders, especially those that have been accused of dealing with petty crime or selling less harmful drugs and on a small scale. This paper will look into how ...

Over the years, several problems have emerged in relations to parole management. At some point in time, parole management posed several challenges that people began to think that perhaps it’s something that is relatively impractical; however, intense pressure was laid to law enforcement agencies to come up with programs that could effectively work. Parole is just but a status of a convicted offender being released conditionally from prison before the actual expiry of the incarceration period by a paroling authority (Donald, 2011). Due to this reason, the inmates are thoroughly supervised by the relevant authority; moreover, they are ...

Project Description

Purpose This project aims at organizing grade 12 volunteers of Westside High School in collecting blankets, clothes, and shoes from donors in both the school and the community. The items will be delivered to the Heartland Hope Mission to supplement the resources it offers to the needy. The target outcomes for this project is to instill a greater sense of social responsibility and citizenship in the participants and reinforce the strategic plan of the school to strengthen its outreach to communities. From the community resource analysis, it was evident that Westside Schools fell short in reaching out to minority ...

Abstract

Juvenile delinquency in the United States is steadily increasing at an alarming rate. The age pool of offenders keeps on decreasing even for violent crimes such as homicide and rape. It is unclear on how the society deteriorated in successive decades since the 1970s crack cocaine epidemic. Street gangs took over droves of students into their establishments while promising acceptance. The programs that came to the aid of the criminal justice system were two pronged. The primary program is prevention. This program holds the potential to safeguard schoolchildren who are yet to succumb to the pressures and circumstances around ...

Background

I volunteered to work with Goodwill Easter Seals of the Gulfcoast. This organization was founded in 1902 by Rev. Edgar J. Helms, an early social innovator and Methodist minister. Helms used to collect clothing and household goods from affluent parts of the city, then proceeded to hire people who could mend the goods. After that, the goods were resold or given to individuals who repaired them. This system became successful and resulted in the Goodwill philosophy which stated that “a hand up, not a hand out”. Dr. Helm’s vision set the precedent for the $4 billion non-profit organization ...

Introduction

Community service is being involved in work done by community based that is non-profitable to the organization or to an individual with the need of helping people in the community. Community service cuts across a range of services that include information and advice, advocacy, counseling and support that targets a diverse range of people and area of interest. This paper seeks to give a reflective thought on my experience doing community service at Lafayette Urban Ministry. Lafayette Urban Ministry (LUM) is an organization that serves as a societal safety net for Lafayette’s needy families and children. LUM works ...

Introduction

Juvenile correctional approaches in the United States centers around the best interest of the child. Young children below the age of 18 fall into the juvenile category. The system offers to purge any criminal record after a stipulated period of time and at the completion of certain terms. The juvenile records remain sealed from public record during this time and are rarely unsealed in spite of exceptional circumstances. Juvenile offenders are first part of a meeting between the State prosecutors to discuss the options of community service for nonviolent crimes. Only in the event of not reaching a conclusive ...

It is an admitted reality that correctional facilities across the United States, and even around the world, are becoming overcrowded. Moreover, the rate of such overpopulation is still growing and counting. The authorities should also take into consideration other related issues like the health of the prisoners and the risk of escaping from detention that accompany the problem of overpopulated prisons. However, not all of those persons incarcerated are convicted felons. Some of them were detained on mere suspicion of a crime. Others are still undergoing trial. Their crimes range from petty, like abuse of the illegal substance, to ...

Abstract

In referencing the text “Early Childhood Education” by Morrison, Chapter 17, which explains parent, family, and community Involvement in schooling, an analysis of Table 17.1, was made. The account specified Research Support for Parent Involvement and how parent/family involvement can be enhanced. A description of all six types listed in the text is given. Examples of ways in which involvement from a teacher or school's perspective can be encouraged are outlined, using supporting scientific research data.

Parenting Knowledge and Skills

This involvement is, primarily, incorporated through parent- teacher associations within the school organization. A National Education Association research revealed an exciting new wave of ...

Human service provision is concept which refers to the provision of services that are useful in offering solutions to challenges facing humanity. Such challenges include water supply shortage, information services, banking, counseling, health care services, the list is endless. I have for the last fifteen years worked as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a Community Based Organization (CBO) which deals with substance abuse and mental problems. In this paper, I will give advice to professionals who are beginners in human service provision. I will give guidelines on issues of human service such as confidentiality, barrier identification, making and ...

Introduction

Correctional program is a planned undertaking which addresses factors connected/related to offender’s criminal behavior. It helps in assisting in the rehabilitation of offenders and their reintegration into the community as responsible citizens who are law are abiding. This can be achieved by making them provide programs in the prison and in the community. (Bonta 2007) Some of the correctional programs are community based. They are supervised to deal with convicted people and does not base its operation in cases of confinement of the prisoners. Some of the commonly used methods of community correction include Parole and probation. There ...