Assignment 1
APA format – 2 pages
Book List
1) Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth Holmes (2013)
2) Promises I can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (2007, 2nd revised edition) by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas (available in digital book form in SUNY ESC library)
3) Doing the Best I can: Fatherhood in the Inner City (2013) by Kathryn Edin and Timothy Nelson (available in digital book form in SUNY ESC library
4) Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life (2011, 2nd edition with an update a decade later) by Annette Lareau (available in digital book form in SUNY ESC library
5) Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (2004) by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
6) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (2004) by B. Ehrenreich and A. R. Hochschild
7) Women of the Pandemic: Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19 (2021) Lauren McKeon
Chose one book from the list above. While reading this book, make notes about how the governments public health’s infrastructure supports (or does not support) this books specific situation. Create a 2 page write up connecting the infrastructure of the community in the book and social justice issues it brings up, to either supporting or is lacking support for the vulnerable populations.
Assignment 2
For this project, we are going to pretend we are responsible for creating a community health center geared towards clients who meet the criteria for a vulnerable population. This is going to be based off of an advocacy and critical thinking perspective. You are to choose 1 vulnerable population. Imagine you were hired to create this community health center and were asked to give a 7-10 minute presentation introducing the community to what this health center can offer it. Please create a PowerPoint presentation. This presentation should include why this population needs this community health center. How it can impact the clients lives. How is this population resilient? How can this center support them? What does this community health center going to do build the connection between the population and medical care, social services, and the environment? How can it impact the community as a whole. What new research exists regarding this vulnerable population. Please keep in mind our presentation should use proper APA formatting and trusted research resources. This presentation should use at least 5 trusted resources and be appropriately 5 slides in length.please include notes so I can do a presentation a five minute presentation.
