Licia Dones has participated in various health education programs and initiatives through internships. She developed a program to reduce mental illness among college students and implemented programs at the St. Clair County Health Department based on community needs assessments. As an intern, she helped administer the Better Birth Outcomes program, which aims to reduce preterm births by applying health behavior theories and ensuring cultural diversity. She also advocated for health education programs and tailored messages to priority groups like low-income pregnant mothers.
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Strategic Plan
2015-2019
Insight Program
Contents
Background
Vision
Mission
Values
SWOT Analysis
Estimated Operating Budget
Objectives and Priorities
Background
Crittenton of Southern California was born out of the opening of the Florence Crittenton Home in Los Angeles in 1892. The country saw a need for a social service program in the early 1960s, this need helped the creation of the Orange County program partnering with The National Association of Florence Crittenton Agencies. ?? (A need on the country's need for social service programs was establish in the early 1960s which helped in the creation of a Orange Country program partnering with The National Association of Florence Crittenton Agencies.) Florence Crittenton Services Orange County was incorporated in 1966 purchasing a home in Santa Ana, CA. The campus transformed from serving only teen mothers to include exploited boys and girls. In 1991 Fullerton Community Hospital was renovated and re-opened, housing adolescent girls and their children as it continues to do today. Currently, Crittenton Southern California serves Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego Counties.
Crittenton’s mission is carried through Crittenton’s Insight Program. Insight is a comprehensive, multi-faceted residential program for assessment, treatment, recovery of Commercial Sexually Exploited Girls. The program focuses on domestic and international teenage girls between ages 12-18. The girls may be runaways, forced into trafficking, or exploited by their “boyfriends”. Crittenton began providing shelter and services for trafficked teenagers and Commercial Sexual Exploited Children (CSEC). Staff are well trained and dedicated to helping young girls who experienced complex traumas; they assist girls to recover and restore them to their whole self.
Vision Statement
To serve domestic and international victims by providing a safe and secure in-home and community based treatment for a better and brighter future for both youth and adults.
Value Statement
· We believe that every child is entitled to health relationships and a loving family.
· In all our dealings, we conduct ourselves with honor and decency; respecting the children and families we serve, tending to relationships with each other, and proudly representing our agency to the community.
· We demonstrate the very tenets of responsibility that we encourage in our children; trying our best, picking ourselves up when we fail, and having the courage of our convictions.
· We are committed to an atmosphere of trust, openness, and fairness in which all members of the agency – staff, client, board and volunteer – can actively participate in setting the course.
· We will never rest on our laurels.
Mission Statement
We are a non-profit organization with a mission to conserve, and provide a safe, nurturing environment where victims can recover from the trauma of comm.
2015 us young lions competitions assignment briefPR Council
2015 US Young Lions Competitions partnered with Every Mother Counts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother around the world. Every year the US Young Lions judges look for the most creative and innovative campaign ideas. The winning team for each category will represent the country as “TEAM USA” at the global competitions in France.
For the first time the United States will be sending a team for the PR category. This team is sponsored by the PR Council, the trade association for America public relations Firms.
2015 Sunburst Projects- Kenya Annual ReportGeri DeLaRosa
Sunburst Projects-Kenya has been growing over the last 4 years.
We have a Kenyan Team with passion and vitality working to stop AIDS among youth in Kenya-Please that a peak at their hard work.
Strategic Plan
2015-2019
Insight Program
Contents
Background
Vision
Mission
Values
SWOT Analysis
Estimated Operating Budget
Objectives and Priorities
Background
Crittenton of Southern California was born out of the opening of the Florence Crittenton Home in Los Angeles in 1892. The country saw a need for a social service program in the early 1960s, this need helped the creation of the Orange County program partnering with The National Association of Florence Crittenton Agencies. ?? (A need on the country's need for social service programs was establish in the early 1960s which helped in the creation of a Orange Country program partnering with The National Association of Florence Crittenton Agencies.) Florence Crittenton Services Orange County was incorporated in 1966 purchasing a home in Santa Ana, CA. The campus transformed from serving only teen mothers to include exploited boys and girls. In 1991 Fullerton Community Hospital was renovated and re-opened, housing adolescent girls and their children as it continues to do today. Currently, Crittenton Southern California serves Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego Counties.
Crittenton’s mission is carried through Crittenton’s Insight Program. Insight is a comprehensive, multi-faceted residential program for assessment, treatment, recovery of Commercial Sexually Exploited Girls. The program focuses on domestic and international teenage girls between ages 12-18. The girls may be runaways, forced into trafficking, or exploited by their “boyfriends”. Crittenton began providing shelter and services for trafficked teenagers and Commercial Sexual Exploited Children (CSEC). Staff are well trained and dedicated to helping young girls who experienced complex traumas; they assist girls to recover and restore them to their whole self.
Vision Statement
To serve domestic and international victims by providing a safe and secure in-home and community based treatment for a better and brighter future for both youth and adults.
Value Statement
· We believe that every child is entitled to health relationships and a loving family.
· In all our dealings, we conduct ourselves with honor and decency; respecting the children and families we serve, tending to relationships with each other, and proudly representing our agency to the community.
· We demonstrate the very tenets of responsibility that we encourage in our children; trying our best, picking ourselves up when we fail, and having the courage of our convictions.
· We are committed to an atmosphere of trust, openness, and fairness in which all members of the agency – staff, client, board and volunteer – can actively participate in setting the course.
· We will never rest on our laurels.
Mission Statement
We are a non-profit organization with a mission to conserve, and provide a safe, nurturing environment where victims can recover from the trauma of comm.
2015 us young lions competitions assignment briefPR Council
2015 US Young Lions Competitions partnered with Every Mother Counts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother around the world. Every year the US Young Lions judges look for the most creative and innovative campaign ideas. The winning team for each category will represent the country as “TEAM USA” at the global competitions in France.
For the first time the United States will be sending a team for the PR category. This team is sponsored by the PR Council, the trade association for America public relations Firms.
1. Licia Dones
Area of ResponsibilityI
Throughmy journeyof becomingaHealthEducator,there are variousactivitiesIhave
participatedinthathave allowedme toassessneeds,assets,andcapacityforHealthEducation.Fall of
2015, mycolleaguesandIdevelopedafreshmanprogramdesignedtohelpreduce mental illness
amongstSIUE college students. We collectedprimaryandsecondarydatafrompriorcollege mental
healthprograms to developsurveys,andidentifiedstakeholders.
Area of ResponsibilityII
As an internatthe St.ClairCountyHealthDepartment,Ihave participatedinimplementing
programsfor citizensof St.ClairCounty,IL. Basedon the needsof citizensthroughcommunitysurveys
done previous,successfully,collectingover300 surveys.These surveysare usedtodeterminenew
programs,if needed. Ialsometwithlocal stakeholdersinaddressingthe mostattainable needsforthe
county.
Area of ResponsibilityIII
As a future HealthEducator,I have implemented programs suchasStressmenProbs:Messages
for ManagingStress, andassistedwiththe BetterBirthOutcomesprogramat the St. ClairCountyHealth
Department.Asaninternat the St. ClairCountyHealthDepartment, mycolleaguesandI,has
implementedthe BetterBirthOutcomesprogram.Thisprogramisdesignedtoreduce the likelyhoodof
pretermbirths.Before implementingthisprogram, we usedstrategiestoensure cultural diversity,as
well asapplytheoriessuchasHealthBelief Model topromote successamongstthisprogram.
Area of ResponsibilityIV
Fall 2015, mycolleaguesandIdevelopedthe StressmenProbsprogramamongstthe SIUE
freshmanstudents.Myprojectwas locatedinall of the freshman halls;Idesignedthree bulletinboards
withthree helpfulstepstomanagingstress.Toensure these boardswere successfulduring
implementation,Idevelopedanevaluationusingbothqualitative andquantitative data.
Area of ResponsibilityV
As an internatthe St.ClairCountyHealthDepartment,partof my jobis to administerand
manage the BetterBirth Outcome program. Throughstrategicplanning,mycollegeandIadministered
fiscal resourcestospecificpartsof the program. By doingso,we alsodevelopedabudgetandmanaged
were the moneywouldbe spent.
Area of ResponsibilityVI
As an internatthe St.ClairCountyHealthDepartment,I servedas a healtheducationconsultant
whenconductingoutreachinthe St.ClairCountyarea. I provide assistance tolocal doctors,schools,
2. hospitals andnursesinexplainingthe importance of the BetterBirthOutcomesprogram andseeking
health-relatedreasoning.
Area of ResponsibilityVII
As a future HealthEducator,I frequentlyadvocatedandcommunicatedforHealtheducation
program.While conductingoutreachforthe BetterBirthOutcomesprogram, I identified currentissues
that may affecta personinabilitylearnfromhealtheducation,andtailoredmessagestopriority
populationpregnantlow-incomemothers.Forexample,mostlow income motherslackproper
educationoncare fora childor children.Myjobisto access the programswe have now and ensure
these womenunderstandourmessagesthroughourdifferentmethods.