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What It Means to Be At-Risk and Why It Matters

It is likely that you have at least heard the term at-risk used in a variety of contexts, but you may not know exactly what is meant by this commonly used term. When working in a community or educational environment, one must be aware of the scope of at-risk groups so as to implement or guide them toward appropriate and effective supports or services. In this discussion, you will analyze a variety of descriptions of at-risk groups and behaviors associated with them for the purpose of acquiring your own working definition. You will include this definition in your website that is created throughout the course and finalized during the Week Six Final Project and make adjustments to your working definition during Week Six when you reflect upon how your definition has expanded.

Prepare for this discussion by reading the Week One Instructor Guidance and reviewing the following resources that provide descriptions of at-risk groups and the behaviors associated with them:

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: At-Risk Individuals

A website defining at-risk individuals.

U.S Department of Health & Human Services: Factors That Contribute to Child Abuse and Neglect

A website about child abuse and neglect.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

An article describing violent behavior in children and adolescents.

Teachnology

A website defining the concept of being at-risk.

National Center for School Engagement

A website offering descriptions for youth at risk.

Initial Post: Considering the descriptions in the websites provided above, create an initial post that addresses the following:

Discuss which of the websites most effectively described the term at-risk as it relates to establishing and enhancing your understanding of the phrase.
Write a working definition of the term at-risk in your own words. Review the Week One Instructor Guidance for what constitutes a working definition.
Explain what the personal value is in having knowledge of groups at risk in relation to your current or anticipated future work with children and/or families.

Discussion 2

Evaluating the Impact of Poverty: A Review of “Quality” Online Resources

Post Due by Day 3. An important part of assisting at-risk children and families is having knowledge of the resources and programs available as sources of support. As such, a significant part of your course work in EDU644 involves discovering, analyzing, and creating resources! In your analysis of various descriptions of at-risk this week in Discussion 1, you discovered that those living in poverty are at-risk, with significant factors impacting their well-being and ability to thrive. In this discussion, you will examine online resources with information and supports for individuals and groups in poverty. Using what you discover, start developing your ideas for the website you will begin to create in Week Two. Therefore, during your investigation, it is important that you take note of how the websites are organized and the way content is presented. Considering what makes a resource effective will help you design comparable organization and content structures in your own website. To prepare for this discussion, examine the Poverty USA website. Additionally, review the Week One Instructor Guidance, making sure to review the intellectual elaboration and the section dedicated to guidance for the assessments.

Initial Post: Create an initial post addressing the following:

Summarize what you learned from the Poverty USA website and how this knowledge will be useful to you in your current or future professional practice.
Summarize the statistical data from the Poverty USA website that explains the impact poverty has on children and families and include at least one example of a program, policy, or resource that provides support. Be sure to explain how the example provides support and cite where the information is located on the Poverty USA website.
Describe the organizational and content features of the Poverty USA website that were particularly helpful, innovative, interactive, or that otherwise caught your attention and that you might emulate when creating your own website in this course.
Using your preferred search engine, locate at least one additional website focused on groups in poverty and cite the website in your initial post. Include a two-to-three sentence description of the type of information included in the website.
Describe the organizational and content features of the website you located that were particularly helpful, innovative, interactive, or that otherwise appealed to you and that you might emulate when creating your own website in this course.

Required Resources
Article

· American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry . (2011, December). Understanding violent behavior in children and adolescents. Retrieved from http://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/Facts_for_Families_Pages/Understanding_Violent_Behavior_In_Children_and_Adolescents_55.aspx

· This AACAP website provides an overview of violent behavior in children and adolescents and links to other Facts for Families Pages that may be of use for this course. This website is a required resource for the Week One discussion about what it means to be at-risk.

· Teachnology. (n.d.). The effects of poverty on teaching and learning.Retrieved from http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/poverty/

· This website provides an overview of the concept of at-risk and explores several challenges of poverty in learning environments. This website is a required resource for the Week One discussion about what it means to be at-risk.

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· U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (2012). At-risk individuals. Retrieved from: http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/abc/Pages/at-risk.aspx

· This HHS website provides the HHS definition of at-risk individuals and elaborates on how their definition is related to the National Response Framework (NRF) definition of at-risk individuals. The website also discusses the typical services an individual at risk typically needs and provides examples for how to identify an individual at risk. This website is a required resource for the Week One discussion about what it means to be at-risk and assignment about poverty.
Websites

· National Center for School Engagement. (n.d.). Serving at-risk youth. Retrieved from http://schoolengagement.org/school-engagement-services/at-risk-youth

· The National Center for School Engagement was established based on over a decade of educational research conducted by Colorado Foundation for Families and Children. NCSE has generated many resources about school attendance, attachment, and achievement. NCSE provides training and technical assistance, research and evaluation to school districts, law enforcement agencies, courts, as well as state and federal agencies – to name a few. This website is a required resource for the Week One discussion about what it means to be at-risk.

· Poverty USA (http://www.povertyusa.org)

· The Poverty USA website describes an initiative of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development offering a vast array of information regarding issues related to poverty in the United States as well as ways to make a difference, how to get involved, the provision of resources, stories of hope and videos that show the impact of poverty. This website is a required resource for the Week One discussion about Evaluating the Impact of Poverty.

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· U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (n.d.). Factors that contribute to child abuse and neglect. Retrieved from https://www.childwelfare.gov/can/factors/contribute.cfm

· This HHS website provides links to articles about several factors that contribute to child abuse and neglect. The website also emphasizes the importance of awareness of these factors for individuals working with groups at risk. This website is a required resource for the Week One discussion about what it means to be at-risk.and assignment about poverty

Please write a one to two page paper discussing whether or not the possession and carrying of firearms or the illegal purchase of a firearm are “victimless” crimes. Why are offenses such as these not usually listed as victimless crimes?

Make sure your paper is in proper APA format and that you accurately cite all outside sources used in this paper both in the text of your essay and in a References page

Name the physical property (hardness, color, streak, etc.) described by each of the following statements.

DESCRIPTION: PHYSICAL PROPERTY:

Breaks along smooth planes: ___________________________________

Scratches glass: _______________________________________

Shines like metal: __________________________________

Scratching produces a red powder: _____________________________

Looks like broken glass: ______________________________

2. What term is used to describe the shape of a mineral that has three directions of cleavage that intersect at 90-degree angels? _______________________________

3. Describe the cleavage fo the minerals listed below. include the number of directions and degrees of cleavage angles (if appropriate).

MINERAL: CLEAVAGE:

Muscovite: _____________________

Calcite: _______________________

Halite: ______________________

Feldspar: _____________________

4. What physical feature most distinguishes biotite mica from muscovite mica? __________________________

5. Name a mineral that exhibits the physical properties listed below. (use the Photos in the upload, if needed)

PROPERTY: MINERAL:

One direction of cleavage: ________________________

Striations: ________________________

Multiple Colors: __________________

Cubic cleavage: ______________________

Nonmetallic, vitreous luster: ______________________

Fracture: _____________________

Metallic luster: _____________________

6. Figure 1.32 illustrates the common crystal form of the mineral fluorite and the characteristic shape of a cleaved sample of fluorite. Identify each specimen (A or B) next to its appropriate description below.

Cystal form of fluorite: ____________

Cleavage specimen of fluorite: ___________

7. Refer to the photo in Figure 1.33 to complete the following.

a. Describe the crystal form (habit) of this specimen.

______________________________________________________________________________

b. What term is applied to the lines on this sample?

______________________________________________________________________________

c. Based on what you can determine from this photo, use the mineral identification key (see figure 1.24) to

identify this mineral.

______________________________________________________________________________

8. A photo of agate, a variety of quartz composed of microscopically small crystals, is provided in Figure 1.34. Based on this image, describe the habit of this sample.

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

9. If a mineral can be scratched by a penny but not by a fuman fingernail, what is its hardness on the Mohs scale?

____________________________

10. What term is used to describe the tenacity of muscovite?

_________________________________________

11. Use the mineral identification key (see Figure 1.24) to identify a mineral that is nonmetallic, dark colored, harder than glass, lacks cleavage, and is green in color. _________________________________

12. For each mineral listed below, list at least one diagnostic property.

lick on Business Source Complete: SWOT Analyses and choose an organization.

Use the SWOT analysis associated with the organization you selected to evaluate the organization’s operational performance.

Develop a plan of 1050- to 1,575-words to capitalize on the strengths of the organization and mitigate any weaknesses. Discuss how to measure improvement by using decision-making techniques, such as balanced scorecard, decision trees, Monte Carlo analysis, or real options.

Include recommendations for the future direction of the organization based on your analysis and plan. Explain the value your plan could bring to the organization.

Include citations.

Format your paper consistent with APA guideline

Organization Performance Recommendation

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Click on Business Source Complete: SWOT Analyses and choose an organization.

Use the SWOT analysis associated with the organization you selected to evaluate the organization’s operational performance.

Develop a plan of 1050- to 1,575-words to capitalize on the strengths of the organization and mitigate any weaknesses. Discuss how to measure improvement by using decision-making techniques, such as balanced scorecard, decision trees, Monte Carlo analysis, or real options.

Include recommendations for the future direction of the organization based on your analysis and plan. Explain the value your plan could bring to the organization.

Include citations.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

need a java application that meets the criteria listed below.

Write a Java application using NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that calculates the total annual compensation of a salesperson. Consider the following factors:

A salesperson will earn a fixed salary of 40,000.
A salesperson will also receive a commission as a sales incentive. Commission is a percentage of the salesperson’s annual sales. The current commission is 4 of total sales.
The total annual compensation is the fixed salary plus the commission earned.

The Java application should meet these technical requirements:

The application should have at least one class, in addition to the application’s controlling class (a controlling class is where the main function resides).
There should be proper documentation in the source code.
The application should ask the user to enter annual sales, and it should display the total annual compensation

Organization Performance Recommendation

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Click on Business Source Complete: SWOT Analyses and choose an organization.

Use the SWOT analysis associated with the organization you selected to evaluate the organization’s operational performance.

Develop a plan of 1050- to 1,575-words to capitalize on the strengths of the organization and mitigate any weaknesses. Discuss how to measure improvement by using decision-making techniques, such as balanced scorecard, decision trees, Monte Carlo analysis, or real options.

Include recommendations for the future direction of the organization based on your analysis and plan. Explain the value your plan could bring to the organization.

Include citations.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

You are a newly promoted manager for a medium-sized, locally operated security company. The owner of the company recently elevated you to your new position to place you as a security director in a large hotel and convention center for which the security company recently received a contract to provide full 24-hour security services. The owner of the security company advises you that the hotel and convention center were funded by private as well as university funding, and the structure is located on the campus of a large university in your town.

Because of this unique ownership situation, there are three parties with interests in security matters inside the facility and in the surrounding property: the management company; the university; and now, your security organization. You are also advised by the owner that you will be working closely with campus law enforcement who will provide security primarily on an as-needed basis for the facility and the outer perimeter of the building. Because this is a unique situation that your security manager has not previously faced, he has asked you to come up with a management plan and present it to him within the next week. Your manager did provide you with a list of areas toward which he felt you needed to focus your primary efforts.

Assignment Guidelines

Hiring

Provide a document of 300 words detailing the hiring process that you will use to select personnel for your facility.

You will not utilize the normal hiring process of your company; instead, you will hire people directly for that facility as per the management agreement.

In this document, you will advise on the following:

How you will recruit personnel

The standards and qualifications that individuals should meet

Any pre-employment background investigations, screening, or testing that will be done

Any important legal issues in the recruitment and selection process that you need to be concerned with

Shift Scheduling

To provide 24-hour coverage for the facility, you have initially been provided with the authority to hire 12 security officers.

In your response, you will devise an example of 200 words of a schedule that you can utilize to provide 24-hour coverage for the facility.

The schedule can be completed as a Microsoft Word table or any other type of format, with the days and hours of coverage and the number of officers per shift given in the example.

By contract, you are required to have at least 2 people on the property between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Beyond that requirement, it is left up to you to cover the remaining shifts.

Answer the following question:

What are some of the employee and legal considerations that you need to consider before you schedule your officers?

Given a choice of an 8-hour shift, a 10-hour shift, or a 12-hour shift, which would be most beneficial to you to provide the coverage needed at the facility?

Relations With University Police and Other Challenges

Relations between law enforcement and security can sometimes be strained. This is primarily because the goals of each entity are not necessarily identical.

In 300 words, provide your manager with a plan for how you will engage the University Police Department (UPD) to facilitate your relationship with the department and its officers.

This is going to require that you meet on a regular basis with the UPD to ensure that things are running smoothly.

Answer the following questions:

How will your understanding of the history of private security play a role in your communications with the UPD?

As a supervisor, how do you see your role in promoting this positive relationship?

What type of joint training programs do you see as being useful between your department and the UPD?

What are some of the other types of challenges that you foresee that might affect your relationship with the UPD? What steps will you take to negate or minimize these challenges?

Compile the 3 above sections into your final submission. Be sure to reference all sources using APA style

Name the four hormones involved in the regulation of the reproductive cycle. Where is each made, and what is the function of each?

2.Differentiate between spermatogenesis and oogenesis. How do these differences relate to the role of the male and female in reproduction?

3.Explain what occurs between the time of ovulation and the implantation of the fertilized egg into the uterus.

4.Describe and give the approximate length of each of the three stages of labor.

5.Explain how the DNA code is able to regulate the biochemistry of the cell.

6.Explain why men have more sex-linked disorders than women.

PART II: Case Study

Directions: Please answer each of the case study questions below. Ensure that your responses are detailed and that each response is at least one half of a page to one page in length. Please use proper APA format. If necessary, please cite any sources. You may also utilize LIRN for your research. Please visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC) for concise APA and LIRN guidelines.

1.The human reproductive process depends on different multiple organs from both male and female reproductive systems performing key functions of the process. On the basis of your knowledge of reproductive organs, how do a vasectomy (blocking the vas deferens in the male) and tubal ligation (blocking the fallopian tubes in the female) work to interrupt the reproductive process?

2.Dana, a 24-year-old patient who is 5 weeks pregnant with her first child, is visiting the office for a routine checkup. She says that birth defects are common in her family, and she is concerned about the possibility that her baby will have defects as well. What should you tell her?

3.Kathleen’s husband has a brother who has phenylketonuria (PKU). They are anxious to start a family but are concerned about the possibility of having a child with PKU. Family members have indicated that it is a genetic disease that is inherited. Kathleen and her husband have decided to seek genetic counseling. What do you think the counselor might say?

.Briefly explain the following disorders: urethritis, cystitis, and pyelonephritis.

2.Name the three hormones that regulate urine volume. State where each is made and the specific effect each has on urine volume.

3.If a person were doing strenuous work on a hot day and perspiring heavily, would there be a great deal of ADH in the blood or very little? Explain your answer.

4.What factors influence the percentage of water in the body? Explain the effect of each factor.

5.Explain the relationship between pH and the relative concentration of hydrogen and hydroxide ions in a solution.

6.Explain how excessive vomiting causes metabolic alkalosis and explain why normal saline can be used to correct it.

PART II: Case Study

Directions: Please answer each of the case study questions below. Ensure that your responses are detailed and that each response is at least one half of a page to one page in length. Please use proper APA format. If necessary, please cite any sources. You may also utilize LIRN for your research. Please visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC) for concise APA and LIRN guidelines.

1.A patient has been having pain in the back and groin, renal colic, reduced urine output, and painful voiding. The physician orders a urinalysis. Crystalline substances and some blood cells are observed in the urine on microscopic analysis. On the basis of the results of an ultrasound examination, the physician recommends lithotripsy. What do you suspect might be wrong with the patient? What further diagnostic techniques do you think might be ordered?

2.The body must maintain fairly constant fluid levels to remain healthy. What mechanism does the body use to accomplish this?

3.Josie is in her second trimester of pregnancy and has been vomiting constantly for several days. On the advice of her physician, Josie is admitted to the hospital, where she receives intravenous administrations of normal saline solution. Why?