Week 9 – Community/Public Health Elective

Date: 11/10/17 Rotation: Community/Public Health Elective Location: BronxWorks

Activities / Assignments:

Distributed lunch and metro cards
Tracked group activities in e-share – lunch/dinner
Reassessments
Counseling with supplements
Continued reading “Random Family”
Modified recipe book for Thanksgiving using items offered in pantry
Worked on fat lesson plan
Received and processed order from Food Bank for pantry and harm reduction
Referred client to POTS (Part of the Solution) Bronx for clothing services (client needs exercise clothes; referred to their clothing donation program – held M, W, & F 9-3)
Set up and distributed food for pantry bags
Developed educational signs about the different food groups offered in pantry and hung up for clients to read

Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned / Challenges: My preceptor gave me the book “Random Family” to read to get a better understanding of what life in the Bronx is like, specifically for the people in the blocks surrounding our building. I learned that you cannot judge the decisions these people have made or the paths they have taken to get where they are. Escaping the environment that they grow up in is extremely difficult, and from the moment they are born a lot of them are surrounded by drugs and sexual abuse, and even when someone tries to escape their situation, they have family or friends pulling them back in despite their best efforts. It really impacted how I interact with and respond to clients in counseling sessions.

Learning Objectives Met: CRDN 2.6, CRDN 2.11, CRDN 3.3, CRDN 3.5, CRDN 3.6, CRDN 3.7, CRDN 3.8, CRDN 3.10, CRDN 4.1

Clock Hours: 40 Hours