... 2 Community Board Background: I attended the Committee For The Concerns Of The Aging meeting for Community Board 12 (Manhattan). The Aging meeting is held every 2nd Tuesday of the month. The meeting was held at Dyckman Senior Center. Community Board #12 Manhattan is one of the 59 community boards in New York City (12 in Manhattan). Each of the Community Board members represents a unique geographic area of the city of New York and CB12 represents the neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood in the Borough of Manhattan. It is delimited by the Harlem River on the east and on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and W 155th Street on the south (Community Board 12, 2011). The Community board is made up of 50 non-salaried volunteered members, who are considered officials of the City of New York. These members are appointed by the borough president, in which half of the members must be appointed from nominees of the districts council members. Each of the Board Members must either live, work, or have special interest in the CB 12 district (Community Board 12, 2011). As an independent City Agency, Community Board #12 Manhattan is committed to improving the delivery of the City services in the district and advocating for the welfare of the District and its’ residents. As mandated by the New York City Charter, CB#12 Manhattan is responsible to participate in long-term community planning, review applications for liquor licenses...
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...The History of Community Nursing Community Health Nursing, originally called "Public Health Nursing" from 1900-1970, combines nursing science with public health science to formulate a community-based and population-focused practice, according to Judith Allender and Barbara Spradley in "Community Health Nursing." The overall goal is to improve the health of communities and vulnerable populations. The name "Community Health Nursing" was adopted in 1970, although "Public Health Nursing" was not abandoned, to better describe the place where the nurse practices. Read more: The History of Community Nursing | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6534870_history-community-nursing.html#ixzz2A1vES5oW 1. The Beginnings * According to Mary Nies and Melanie McEwen in "Community/Public Health Nursing," modern Community Health Nursing can trace its history to London, England and New York City. In 1854-1856, London health care institutions developed "District Nursing." This referred to the community being divided into districts, each served by a nurse and social worker. In 1893, Florence Nightingale developed the idea of "Home Nursing." This idea charged the District Nurse with being a health educator as well as a nurse to the sick at home. In 1877, in New York City, the Women's Board of New York City Mission sent Francis Root into the homes of the sick. Visiting Nurse Associations emerged in Buffalo in 1885 and in Boston and Philadelphia in 1886. However, in 1893 Lillian Ward established...
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... Commissioning Based Health Care Environment. Specialism: BSc (Hons) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Submission Date: 15/09/2014 Word Count: 3949 Leadership and Management in a Commissioning Based Health Care environment. In any organization good leadership is not just important but fundamental for the success of the organization. For the purpose of this assignment leadership and management will be explored within today’s rapidly changing health care. This shall be discussed in more depth and in relation to the commissioning of the new service as proposed in the report to the trust board for consideration. As highlighted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards of proficiency for specialist community public health nurses (MNC, 2008), nurses are expected to work in partnership with all team members and clients in delivering the best care. A clear understanding of the quality issues in clinical care will be discussed by analyzing the process of change and leadership styles and how this can influence the quality of care in line with the new policy and legislation. Furthermore strengths and weaknesses given to conflict...
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...PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, INC. Outsourcing Methods & Case Studies City of Colorado Springs Sustainable Funding Committee 04/10/2009 OUTSOURCING Overview ............................................................................................................................. 3 Types of Outsourcing .......................................................................................................... 3 When to Outsource............................................................................................................. 4 When not to Outsource ...................................................................................................... 5 Outsourcing Guidelines ....................................................................................................... 6 Case Studies ...................................................................................................................... 11 Managed Competition ...................................................................................................... 15 Public-Private Partnerships ............................................................................................... 17 Outsourcing Advisory Boards............................................................................................ 18 Outsourcing in Colorado Springs ...................................................................................... 19 Conclusion ...................................................
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...Below is a condensed version of the proposal I put together for the homeless soccer program. This was presented to the board of St. Francis Xavier Mission for their review. Xavier Shelter Soccer Program Background: “I don’t want to say it’s a return to being normal, but it makes me feel like myself again. Two weeks ago, that was, like, the first time in a while that I forgot. I forgot where I was and what was going on.” Chris Lodgson of Ward Island’s soccer team speaking with the New York Times. Building the selfrespect and the confidence to stand on one’s own two feet again is a less tangible benefit than providing food and shelter. However, the role of sport continues to grow as a way of engaging homeless people in positive activity. Homeless soccer programs have been very successful in raising awareness of homeless issues and improving the image of homeless people to the general public. Each week at Chelsea Piers, a homeless team from Ward’s Island lines up against different business sponsored teams in the city, facing Bloomberg employees one week, Goldman Sachs the next. The opportunities to reintegrate into society are clearly visible. This growing awareness and recognition of outreach work in the community leads to new partnerships and opportunities, which in turn make a difference in the lives of homeless individuals. The programs give players new leases on life and improve their social relations. Soccer programs can allow the homeless to transcend stereotypes and feel like themselves again...
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...While working at Pavia & Harcourt she also served on the board of Puerto Rican Legal Defense, Education Fund, the New York City Campaign Finance Board and the State of New York Mortgage Agency. However this was just the beginning of where her career in law would take her. In 1991, she was nominated by President George H.W. Bush for U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York City which in August of 1992 she took the position. She was the youngest and first Hispanic federal judge. Bill Clinton nominated her for U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in June of 1997. While working in the Court of Appeals she also taught law classes at NYU and Columbia Law. Also served on the Board of Trustees at Princeton and received honorary degrees from Herbert H. Lehman College, Princeton University, and Brooklyn Law School. She is known to be a workaholic, I believe this shows...
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...supports, promotes and advocates for nonprofit home healthcare and hospice providers. Who care for all individuals regardless of complexity of condition or ability to pay. The mission of the VNAA is to support, promote and advance nonprofit providers of home and community based healthcare, hospice and health promotion services to ensure quality care for their communities. The vision of the Visiting Nurses Association of America is to make sure our communities are healthier through quality care provided in a way and place people choose. The VNAAs values to the members are Access to Care, Excellence, Transparency, Accountability, Membership Engagement, Stewardship, and leader ship. The association believes all persons should have access to affordable, high-quality, compassionate home and community-based healthcare, and hospice and health promotion services, regardless of the complexity of care or ability to pay. As an association they strive for the highest possible levels of service, patient care, ethical conduct and integrity as we support the nonprofit mission in delivering healthcare. They will share information and communicate openly among member organizations, stakeholder groups, VNAA staff and the Board of Directors in order to achieve our mission. They will generate...
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...disrespectful individuals. When it comes to the city of Batesville, Indiana those are not the thoughts at Hillenbrand Incorporated. Rather, “to help families honor the lives of those they love.” (Hillenbrand Inc.) Hillenbrand Incorporated was a holding company for 2 major businesses, Batesville Casket Company and Hill-Rom Company for over a century. To this day they operate Batesville Casket Company and K-Tron and are publicly traded on the New York stock exchange as HI. Batesville Casket Company was founded in 1906 when the Hillenbrand family rescued Batesville Coffin Company from bankruptcy. They are the leader in death care products in North America specializing in burial caskets, cremation caskets, containers and urns, and funeral home displays. They provide superior funeral products and services to help grieving families during a most difficult time in their lives. (Hillenbrand Inc.) K-Tron is Hillenbrand’s newest acquisition since separating Hill-Rom in 2008. K-Tron serves the bulk solids material handling markets, which focuses on feeding and pneumatic conveying systems and screening equipment. K-Tron designs, produces, markets, and services their equipment. (K-Tron) Hillenbrand Incorporated employs 3,200 of the 6,500 people in the city of Batesville, Indiana. Hillenbrand has a commitment to corporate governance. The board of governance consists of 12 individuals including the CEO of the company, Kenneth A. Camp. The board of directors is elected by its many shareholders...
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...ENG 106 May 26, 2009 Charter Schools Why charter schools? Public, Private, Magnet, and Charter schools all have one thing in common, that is a place where students can learn, jobs for educators, and a location with a purpose where parents feel safe to let their children go to learn and interact with others in the community. Charter schools have a unique way of teaching students. Charter schools are not only created to teach the basic reading, writing, and math, but, to bring originality and flexibility to advance student’s achievements. Charter schools are not nation wide as of yet because the population in the community does not know how beneficial they can be towards the community. Charter schools are privately run and publicly financed departments run by parents, educators, and companies. The state and federal tax dollars are based on enrollment, just like public schools are. There is no tuition to attend a charter school, and it is freely available to any student who wishes to enroll. Charter schools are legally obligated to state and federal academic standards. Charter schools can make a difference in the community by having an arranged schedule for students, parents, and educators to follow. Parents, who work during school hours and have no one to pick up their children from school, can have their children attend evening, or weekend classes to make up for lost time in school. Students who are struggling with their academics can take weekend...
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...I arranged to attend a city council meeting in Frisco, Texas (Collin County) on May 15, 2012 at 5:00 P.M. The board consisted of 6 council members including the Mayor Mayer Maso who was the facilitator. The meeting took place at the Frisco City Hall in the George A. Purefoy Municipal Center in the council chambers. The meeting began with the call to order and subsequently closed to the public due to a closed session to discuss legal advice about Exide, a factory in Frisco that many citizens are against and want to be closed due to environmental factors. The closed session lasted about an hour and a half... Mayor Maso welcomed the citizens and gave a brief announcement about the recently elected council members. After that, the Innovation started with a prayer by the Mayor’s Pro Tem, Pat Fallon and Deputy City Manager, Henry Hill. All stood to recite the pledge of Allegiance to the US Flag and the Texas Flag. The Mayor started off by recognizing the Mayor’s Youth Committee for their awesome services to the community. This group of 20 teenage scholars from various high schools in Frisco were recognized for their exemplary service to the community and to their peers. Each person introduced themselves and their high school. After the recognitions there was another 20 minute break for a small reception honoring the teens. The meeting convened around 7:30 PM and Mayor Maso addressed information he left out during his initial welcome statements. He apologized and moved...
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...3.3. Strategies 3. Green city: Environmental Sustainability 5-6 4.4. Failures 4.5. Strategies 4. Distinctive Singapore Identity 7 5.6. Failures 5.7. Strategies 5. Online references 8 * Land Use Plan 2030 Singapore and A New Vision To it Creating Dynamic Economy * Creating a dynamic economy which will generate good jobs, opportunities and resources so as to invest in the city and the people thus help them achieve their aspirations. As poor growth also affect the people who are less educated and the employment. * Looking at the demographic profile it is seen that Singaporeans are becoming better educated with 70% of citizens aged 25-29 have diploma qualifications and above. By 2030 the expected rise in PMET jobs will be nearly 50% to about 1.25 million compared to 850,000 today while the other non-PMET jobs are expected to fall by 20% to about 650,000 compared to 850,000 today. By 2030, two-third jobs will be held by Singaporeans compared to about half today. * To create this number of good jobs it is needed to i. remain competitive to tap Asia’s growth, ii. make a strong Singaporean workforce, iii. Complement the Singaporean core with the foreign workforce. * Creating more commercial and urban centres near homes would help meet higher aspirations and new lifestyle preferences. As currently the employment sector is in western region and in the city while the housing is in the north...
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...Community Analysis Purple Group January 21, 2013 Community Analysis: COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS New Hyde Park Community. New Hyde Park is a merged region of North Hempstead, situated in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. It has a land area of eighty-six square miles and zero square miles of water. It was a unique and historic settlement, of the ancient times. The first settlers were Dutch and English, followed by Irish polish and Germans. In 1990, Jewish families began settling in. Although the settlement began in 1624, George Clark a former Secretory of the Province gave the name Hyde Park after his wife, Ann Hyde. (New Hyde Park, New York, 2012).The village formerly a farmland experienced rapid growth and development in 1930and was turned into and a village with several home. The Geopolitical communities are designed by natural or human made boundaries (Maurer and Smith, 2009). It holds community safer for the residents and the governing body. The New Hyde Park community is bordered by human made boundaries. The eastern and western borders are Herrick’s Road and the Eleventh Avenue respectively. Stewart Manor Road in Garden City borders the south. Northern Boulevard in Manhasset Hills borders the north. Presently Jericho Turnpike divides it into two sections north and south with 86 square miles of land and zero squares of water. Geopolitical communities within this a few luxury gated communities. Political communities and low enforcement jurisdictions...
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...Communications because they became WorldCom’s largest provider of business and consumer telephone service. From 1983 to 2002 WorldCom developed from a humble long distance telephone company to the second-largest long distance telephone company in the United States and one of the largest companies handling worldwide Internet data traffic, and finished as the largest bankruptcy of an organization in American history (Moberg, 2008). The purpose of WorldCom was to provide mission-critical communication services for tens of thousands of businesses internationally. WorldCom owned and operated 75 data centers on five continents. The organization owned and operated a global Internet Protocol backbone that provided connectivity in more than 2,600 cities and in more than 100 countries. Before the bankruptcy of the organization, WorldCom carried more international voice traffic than any other company and carried a significant amount of the world’s Internet traffic. Bernie Ebbers and the managers of his company were supposed oversee the activities of WorldCom and ensure that their business was working in integrity (Moberg, 2008). The role of the CEO and the manager’s of WorldCom were to lead the organization in interpersonal, informational, and decisional work ethics. The interpersonal behavior of managers includes motivating and directing employees and maintaining a network of outside contacts. The informational behavior of managers of WorldCom should...
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...workers, physicians, nuclear engineers’ psychologists, and immigration judges (Cascio, p., 537, 2010). In 1943, TWU organized employees of the former Philadelphia Transit company. Local 234 won their first major victory for TWU outside of New York City. The local union was formed during the time of racial strife and the TWU stood by its record and strong dedication to racial equality to represent African American trolley operators. However, TWU local 234 represents more than 5,000 workers at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation (SEPTA). Upper Darby Municipal and Eden’s Paratranist employees are included. Local 234 established a name for themselves by getting the job done at contact time. Therefore, the members show pride for the indispensable service they provide to their communities (www.twu234.org). One union that has proven its presence in the City of Philadelphia as well as nationwide branch is the Transport Worker Union (TWU). The TWU website categorizes the union as a powerful nationwide organization of skilled men and women who work in public, and many other divisions of the economy. The union has more than 130,000 transit workers who keep America daily on the move. As union members, they are committed to improving working lives, the quality of life for their families, and fellow members. They work to...
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...Leadership then becomes one of the roles that managers need to be able to play’ (Dembrowski 2007 p.2). The most successful organisations will combine strong leadership with effective management and will seek to develop the potential of their people in both areas (Dembrowski 2007). Employee engagement is crucial to the effectiveness of organisations and the success of engaging employees is measured by the processes developed to allow employees perform their duties effectively (McShane, Olekalns, Traviglione 2013). This report provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of the management and leadership practices at the City of South Perth local Council and provides recommendations for improving the effectiveness of leadership. Contents Executive Summary 2 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 City of South Perth Organisational Structure 4 3.0 Leadership the City of South Perth council 6 3.1 The Executive Management Team (Task-oriented) 8 3.2 The Operational Management Team (Relationship-oriented) 9 4.0 Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership and Management at South Perth……………………….. 11 5.0 Recommendations 12 6.0 Conclusion 13 7.0 Reference List 15 1.0 Introduction The purpose of this report is to...
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