...Once completed, upload the file to the appropriate link in Moodle. 5. Your proposal is a living document. We will be using and refining this document once we as the term progresses. 6. Remember – this is a DRAFT proposal at this point. As such, its contents will still need significant improvement and revisions as you use its contents in writing your capstone in MM598. 7. Submit the complete proposal via Moodle. CAPSTONE PROPOSAL MM 514 – Practical Research Name(s): | Danny Shipman | Proposed Research Topic/Title: | Do Southern Oregon Veterans Face the Same Challenges as Veterans Across the Rest of the Nation When Transitioning from Military to Civilian Life | Executive Summary: | This section essentially provides the reader of your proposal an informative abstract, giving the reader the chance to see the essentials of the proposal without having to read the details as written in the following sections. The executive summary should include a brief statement of the management dilemma and management question, the research objectives/research questions, and the benefits of your approach. You may want to write this section once you have completed the sections below. | Introduction/ Background of the Study | There were an estimated 2.5 million men and women deployed abroad during the wars in Iraq and...
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...“no drinking and driving”. The way society is today most young generations just don’t care about their responsibility and just want to do their own thing. As parents it is our responsibility to raise our kids to follow the right path of life but in reality they need to learn the hard way. They will fall once or twice but they can always get back up. “The demise of personal responsibility occurs when individuals blame their family, peers, economic circumstances, or their society for their own failure to meet standards” (Haskins, 2009, Sequence of personal responsibility, para.1). Those are life lessons that are taught through making good and bad decisions. With great responsibility comes life changing results. When I decided to join the military I knew I was doing something with my life that my family...
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...homelessness in a given year (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2007). Not receiving the help needed in time can result in living on the streets. Some of these complications include mental illness, lack of affordable healthcare, drug addiction, domestic violence, decreasing work opportunities and housing, decline in public assistance, and poverty. It has become so common to see a homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk. 43% of the homeless population are women, 36% are families with children, and 7% are unaccompanied minors. 50% are African-American, 35% white, 12% Hispanic, 2% Native American, and 1% Asian. 66% of the homeless have problems with alcohol, drug abuse, or mental illness and veterans constitute 40% of the homeless population (GrabStats, 2008). Having insufficient money does not help to cover the expenses of a home, a family, and bills. The typical lower class citizen has to deal with all types of financial issues. These issues include debt, loans, bills, and payments. If one has low-income or is unemployed they are consequently at risk of living on the streets. Families can no longer be lifted above the poverty line with an income of minimum wage. Usually, poor Americans spend more than half of their income on housing. The more members of a family in a household the harder it is to take care of them...
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...Volunteering for Veterans Blueprints The social issue I am going to discuss today is the need for volunteers to help veteran facilities, homeless veterans and our disabled veterans. There used to be a fear that came with allowing civilian volunteers to work with veterans with PTSD, missing limbs, experiencing homelessness and I am here to tell you today that, that fear has diminished. The VA finally figured out that without the help of volunteers the Veteran Affairs and VA sponsored sites would not be as successful as we are. The VA finally acknowledged that community service and service learners are beneficial to the veterans who suffer from loss of family, companionship and miss being active. Those who suffer from PTSD like myself find...
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...Homelessness is an issue that many people, even veterans, face. This broad issue imposes many other more specific issues that harm the mental, physical, and psychological well-being of those on the streets. American Veterans make a lot of sacrifices. However, when they come home, they often times are treated unfairly if they don’t adjust to normal life quickly enough. It is due to mental and physical issues as well as substance abuse that veterans are unable to easily rejoin society. While there are basic issues that every homeless man or woman faces, there is a myriad of problems that specifically affect homeless veterans. There are many different examples of these unique differences, too. Veterans happen to be homeless longer, also older, they are more likely to be minorities such as Latinos or African Americans, and veterans are typically more educated than other civilians...
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...help or not knowing how to find help or being concern about being judge by others. There are various individuals/people who are affected by the human services who are lost in a world of not understanding how to seek assistance or help. The elderly is a population of people who may have difficulties living alone, and mayn’t have financial resources to afford the cost for a nursing home or residential ca4e facilities. The homeless populations also face their difficulties of be homeless and not being able to get their basic needs being meet, not being able find affordable housing, no income, no job skills and a lack of education. Some homeless clients might need help finding treatment to address their under lying cause of homelessness. The immigrant clients are dealing with getting help to adjusting their life’s in a new country. They encounter issues/problems with finding housing, jobs, and learning to speak and write the language I the United States. They also have difficulties with understand the legal system in which most of the time is different than their country. There is the individual who struggles with addictions in the human’s services environment because they are not always ready to face...
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...discharged from the Navy after spending eighteen months in Iraq. While Sergeant Smith was serving time in his deployed location, he was captured and a near death experienced occurred when he was threatened with beheading by his captors. Years later he began seeing flying horses and reported hearing voices from the television that were in a foreign dialogue. It was recommended he see a psychiatrist when family members realized that the foreign dialogue he heard came from the television when it was not turned on. The symptoms that Blaire had were similar to what many other veterans of wars experienced. The doctors treating Sgt. Blaire Smith were familiar with the different types of symptoms he was experiencing and they immediately diagnosed him with Post – Traumatic Stress Disorder (also known as PTSD). PTSD is a common anxiety disorder that develops after exposure to a terrifying event in which a deadly physical harm occurred (Pastorino & Doyle- Portillo, 2010, P. 585). History of PTSD After many years of dealing with the various symptoms of Post – Traumatic Stress Disorder clinicians and psychologist have worked together to develop treatments that help reduced the symptoms of PTSD. These symptoms include depression, anxiety, re-current nightmares, and hopelessness. Though it took years for medical doctors to recognized PTSD, surviving veterans have been rewarded with intensify treatment that is master towards their individual needs. Many of the veterans who displayed PTSD...
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...the four theories applied and why I choose them as well as the ten concepts used in this case. I will explain the conditions indicated by my client and what actions it took to accomplish the goals that were set forth in order to cope with the conditions at hand. I will explain how I used the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers to coincide with my findings and explain how I applied them to this case. A white man, aged fifty-one, came to my office and requested for an intake assessment, he was a veteran. He served only eleven months and fifteen days in the Unites States Marines Core (USMC). Serving in the USMC left him traumatized stressed, after which he was given an honorary discharge under medical conditions. Since then he has repeatedly applied for after employment arrears and benefits but he has been denied. He returns to his home of Record in Louisiana where he applies for jobs, gets them but never works longer than a year. He marries and gives birth to three children. He develops an anger problem and is hospitalized for having thoughts of suicide in his minds. Even though, this man has been on top at one time he is at his wits end and needs some help. He is fed up with life, his wife, children, and himself. Coming from a large family and being the third youngest member, he feels he needs help and...
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...Especially when the restaurant would be slammed with business and kitchen would be entirely overwhelmed with food order. Being a veteran of the line cook staff I suggested, since we were constantly busy, to assign a runner if our food supply on the line got low. That way the cooks could stay on the line and still cook other orders without having to leave. This helped out tremendously and although it was busy, operations in the kitchen functioned smoothly. My arranger strength helps me out when I have to think and solve a problem. This strength will help me as a leader in the future and it will definitely assist me when a problem arises and they ask me how I would solve a problem. Right now I am not faced with that situation to where I have to use arranger strength. Knowing that it is my strength I will apply it when I come into a leadership position, If I needed a team I would know who works well with whom, and try to use my skill on problems that are complex...
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...Table of Contents I. Executive Summary ............................................…………….………..................... 3 II. Theoretical Aspect (Literature Review) ..........………………................................. 6 3.1. Definition of Equal Employment Opportunities............................................... 6 3.2. Definition of Discrimination............................................................................. 6 3.3. Definition of other laws regarding equal employment………………….……..7 III. Practical Aspect ..........…….....…….......................................................................... 10 4.4. Background and description of Hy-Vee Inc.…................…………..……..... 10 4.5. Discussion………… ……………................................................................. 11 IV. Conclusions and Recommendations…...………................…………….................. 12 5.6. Conclusions ..........………................................................................................ 12 5.7. Recommendations .........……...……................................................................ 13 List of References…………………………………………….....………….…………….…………14 I. Executive Summary For my research paper, I have choose to analyze the equal employment opportunities within Hy-Vee Inc. Equal employment opportunity is a very specific yet broad determination of what is allowed and what is seen as discrimination. A lawsuit...
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...Security Administration and TSOs…………………………..46 Domestic Partnership Benefits……………………………..………………….49 Employment Non-Discrimination Act……………………………………..…..55 Paid Parental Leave………………………………………………..…………..57 One America, Many Voices Act………………………………………….…....60 Department of Veterans Affairs…………………………………..……………62 Department of Defense……………………………...……….………………...71 Federal Prisons………………………………………………………………….90 Social Security Administration ……………………………………….…...…103 National Guard/Reserve Technicians ………………………...……….……108 D.C. Workers’ Issues …………………...……………………………..…..…117 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ……………………..……...120 Another Manufactured Crisis: What’s Next in the Fiscal Showdown? Background At the beginning of January, President Obama signed a tax deal that restored higher Clinton-era rates to those making over $450,000, and funded an extension of unemployment insurance benefits to the long-term unemployed, extended for another year the $240 monthly transit subsidy, but did not extend the 2% payroll tax holiday. The deal also delayed until March 1 the sweeping across-the-board agency cuts, known as sequestration, which will force furloughs and RIFs on federal employees. In January, after many threats, Republicans finally agreed to lift the debt ceiling, but only until May. They are once again ignoring the real problems facing our economy, such as long-term...
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...Phillip Mulligan Professor Lothman Introduction to Psychology 23.April.2013 Europe I have been to Europe twice in my life. The first time in 2006, I went with my immediate family. We flew to Germany, then drove to France, Austria, Switzerland, and even saw some of the Torino Olympics in Italy. It was an amazing trip, really opened up my eyes. The second time around was just this past year, in 2012. I flew into Germany again with my Father and a good family friend/neighbor. We met up with my sister who was studying there, then drove All around Germany and to Austria again. Both trips were absolutely amazing and shouldn’t be easily forgotten. Hopefully, they just scratched the surface of my European life The first trip was amazing. The journey started in I want to say 2004, in a very respectful and cultural Swiss restaurant called The Alp Horn, located in Canada. This was the restaurant that my family went to each year for three or four nights in a row. It was a short 20 minute drive from our hotel that we stayed at which is at the base of Blue Mountain. Blue Mountain is 4 seasons resort, popular for it’s skiing, located about 90 minutes from Toronto. We had always made yearly trips to this place to indulge in one of my fathers greatest pleasures, interacting with nature in the means of winter snow skiing. As we sat in our booth reminiscing on the fun we had just had for the past three days our parents told us something. They said they had a secret and were...
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...guardianships, and orphanages. This experience convinced her that she was a "mistake," a person easily abandoned. Given an insecure childhood that included the trauma of sexual molestation and an early marriage (to James Dougherty in 1942; they were divorced in 1946) arranged in part to prevent her return to an orphanage, it is a testament to Monroe's tenacity, personal strength, and resilience that she managed to achieve the heights in her career that she did. Her marriage to Dougherty compelled Monroe to quit high school, and her lack of formal education furthered her sense of inadequacy. While her husband served in the merchant marine during World War II, Monroe found a job inspecting parachutes at the Radioplane Company (1944-1945). Army photographers who had arrived at the plant to take commercial and military pictures of female war workers discovered her. From this first successful posing arose Monroe's fabled "love affair" with the camera (particularly with still photography). She was sensual and at ease before the camera, and her direct sexuality--mingled with her beauty, her innocence, and her now lightened blonde hair--accounted for her popularity with photographers and filmmakers. At age twenty Monroe had her first screen test, signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox, and adopted her stage name of...
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...Clin Soc Work J (2014) 42:323–335 DOI 10.1007/s10615-014-0496-z ORIGINAL PAPER Trauma Through the Life Cycle: A Review of Current Literature Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner Alexandrea Josephine Calnan • Highlight every key term that refers to the following key concepts: 1) "trauma" generally a) "large T trauma" b) "micro-trauma" 2) "resilience" Published online: 31 May 2014 Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract This paper provides an overview of common traumatic events and responses, with a specific focus on the life cycle. It identifies selected ‘‘large T’’ and ‘‘micro’’ traumas encountered during childhood, adulthood and late life, and the concept of resilience. It also identifies the differences in traumatic events and reactions experienced by men compared to women, those related to the experience of immigration, and cross generational transmission of trauma. Descriptions of empirically-supported treatment approaches of traumatized individuals at the different stages of the life cycle are offered. Keywords PTSD Á Large-T and micro-traumas Á Neurobiology Á Gender differences Á Immigrants Á Treatment approaches The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. Judith Lewis Herman S. L. A. Straussner (&) Silver School of Social Work, New York University, 1 Washington...
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...people in long-term care facilities are there for a short period of time while they are recovering from a sudden illness or injury, and then may be able to be cared for at home. Others may need long-term care services on an on-going basis. Some may need to move into a nursing home or other type of facility-based setting for more extensive care or supervision. Long-term care services can be delivered in a variety of settings ranging from private residences to certain outpatient or day care facilities to residential care home and ultimately to skilled nursing facilities (SNF). ALMSHOUSES In the early years of this country, very few people lived to old age and for those that did meant having children or property. Having family living nearby was not often an issue. In those days...
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