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Blog post #5:  Do a deep dive into the PASA TEAM page. Toggle back and forth between the Team “bios” and the program descriptions to better understand what each staff member does. Choose one position that you might be interested in pursuing (now or later in your career). What is exciting about this position to you? What seems challenging? Looking at the bio (and googling the staff member) what prior training, education, or experiences prepared them for this role? Brainstorm ONE QUESTION for Brittany about PASA. I like the position of Human Resources Coordinator. At PASA, there is a team member named  Eric who oversees and coordinates human resources for PASA. Prior to PASA, Eric worked as a substitute teacher for K-8th grade at the Gordon School in East Providence. Eric holds an ME in Curriculum Studies from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. -I like the fact that in this position requires attention to the human resources department itself. -However, the id...

Hey ya'll! Hope you enjoyed our play-box facilitation tonight. We wanted to find a way to incorporate mindfulness and meditation in a way that was easy to understand and fun to do. We thought with such short time it would be easier to perform an activity for mindfulness rather than meditation, because the meditation exercise we had in mind would've taken more time and required more physical activity. Overall, I feel like we did a good job of explaining the differences and similarities between mindfulness and meditation. However, I feel we could have done a better job of going in depth about meditation and what kind of activities could be performed. Something we could change in the future would be to explain the activities more slowly and thoroughly. With such short time, we tried to go through them as quickly as possible, which didn't leave much time to throughly perform the activity.

New Urban Art's constituents consist of students, mentors, and a full time staff that serves high school students and emerging artists in Providence, RI. They serve urban high school students, trained artist mentors, and emerging artists. ' Their long-term goal is that young people and artists mentors work together—as collaborators and peers—to develop creative practices which allow them to become more imaginative, and active, community members.  One zip code I chose to look up the demographic for was my own town, Tiverton, RI (02878), in which 43.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.7%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupati...

Using the theory of change worksheet, consider your internship organization’s approach to making social change. What problem are they trying to solve? How do programs support the mission? What is your organization’s theory of change? The problem that my internship site (YMCA) is trying to change is improve their summer camp programs so that the youth can have a fulfilling experience.  Some other problems that the Newport County community is facing is fitness and obesity. The YMCA is trying to take a leadership role in health and wellness. Their mission is improve and positively influence the quality of life and social well being for our members, our families, and our community. There is a huge emphasis placed on the whole person through programs and activities that help develop spiritual, mental and physical well-being. My organization's theory of change is to position themselves as a cause-driven organization and communicate the Y's cause to serve the communities in ...