Integrative Paper for kim woods.

The requriment is in the second doc.

Please star the Integrative Paper. You Already work on this for a long time

Mimi-Lecture for week 13

Welcome to Week 13

You have worked pretty hard on the first three headings in the mandatory outline. Thanks for the thoughtful work and time you have devoted to these parts of the paper. It has not been easy trying to understand the feedback I have given. Don’t give up. We are almost there. This week it is time to tweak the Introduction, Statement of the Problem, the ROL, and begin to put the paper together. So send me your final revisions and make changes to insert the parts into your paper.

You recognize that competent writing requires rewrites and lots of tweaking. It is a deliberate process and not easily accomplished without some really focused effort.

Now as you begin to put our paper together, your rough draft is a starting point. Hopefully, you will find the time to put the needed effort into your paper over the next two weeks. I am genuinely hoping that the result is a very clear demonstration that you see a related social issue connected to your volunteer work and that you have been able to see your volunteer work strengthening your agency’s effort to impact a significant social issue.

I hope you will also be able to articulate (identify and discuss their application) how the course concepts to your volunteer experience and your social issue. Feel free to send me a draft copy of your paper but don’t wait until the last minute to send it to me. There are too many if they all come together in week 15 or 16.

You may continue to work on your Integrative paper from now through week 16. However, be mindful of other assignments and activities that occur each week.

It is very important that you to do some genuine reflecting on making a difference in your volunteer work. You can record this in your journals as well as upcoming assignments. Please really reflect on what you are feeling and thinking about the specifics of your experience. You have had the opportunity to thoughtfully look at a number of readings that approach community service from multiple perspectives: the value to you; the value to the people you serve; the value to your community; the value to the agency. The reflecting and writing assignment for this week should be very reflective and similar to the way you write your journals as well.

Please remember that some assignments are to be deposited on your web site during the upcoming weeks.

Best wishes. I am pleased that you are taking an interest in helping others and your community. Keep up the good work. Dr. S

Grading Criteria for Integrative Paper

Grading Criteria for Integrative Paper

A maximum number of points will be available for the following sections of the Integrative Paper. Hopefully, this may prove useful for you.

Use of the Mandatory Outline headings–all Outline headings should be included in your paper. You may include additional headings, however, none of the headings in the Mandatory Outline should be omitted.

1. Introduction: 30 points are available. The Introduction should identify your social issue/topic from a problem perspective; be concise in describing the social issue; and briefly indicate what the paper will contain. Written in third person.

2. Statement of the Problem: 30 points are available. The Statement of the Problem should elaborate briefly on the social issue/topic identified; substantiate that a problem exists by including a statistical reference or two; and be concise and to the point. Written in third person.

3. Review of Literature: 100 points are available. The ROL should continue the problem focus and provide increased detail related to the significance of the social issue.

It should be written in your own words, with an occasional direct quote allowed, with support from authors found in the professional research literature.

It should be concise, objective, focused, to the point without unnecessary words and phrases, written in third person and devoid of personal opinion, value judgments and subjectivity.

References from the literature should come from recognized professional journals or recognized online sources and be cited according to APA writing style.

It should be organized in 4 sections: nature and extent of the problem, consequences, causes, and solutions.

It must make the argument that the chosen social issue is, indeed, an issue of significance.

Clear, concise writing is really important in the first three headings of the Mandatory Outline. Do not put “creative”, “informational” writing in these technical, scholarly parts of the paper. Creative writing is including non-contributing words and phrases that weaken the focus of the paper and cause the reader to have to process emotional or distracting commentary. It is called “fluff.” Rewrites are expected to reflect my feedback from previous versions. If you paper does not then I will assume that you have decided not to consider my feedback. This is entirely up to your disgression.

4. Findings: 40 points available. This heading should contain a summary of the findings in from the research for your ROL as well as the observations from your volunteer efforts related to the topic. You may also add information about your agency here, if you wish, or create a new heading. Third person writing is not required.
5. Integration of Course Concepts: 80 points available. This heading, or a related heading where you have included the discussion of the course concepts, should contain your discussion of how the course concepts, all of them, present themselves in your volunteer work or your agency activities.

6. Citations in the body of your paper as well as in your Reference Page must follow APA guidelines.

7. The Integrative Paper should be 8–10 pages in length and have seven to ten professional journal references.

Effects of lack of after school programs for children
2

Effects of lack of after school programs for children

Student’s Name

University Affiliation

Introduction

After school concern for children is a social issue that is significant in the United States. It is vividly evident that thousands of families are encountered with the issue of insufficient or lack of activities and attention for their children when they come from school. This problem majorly faces families with both parents working; when the kids come home from school, there is no supervision on them from their parents. While the children are at school, they go through several experiences between the time they are in school and the time they will be out of school.

In the case that both parents are working, the kids will lack the attention and support they need from their parents or guardians. The kids come from school after going through different experiences some of which are discouraging and may impact negatively on their academic performance as well as moral behavior. It is important that the kids get attended to by their parents or are involved in co-curricula activities that will help them fix and get over the various challenges they have gone through while ate school.

In real life, there is lack of after school activities for children or there is no supervision from their seniors or parents. Due to this scenario, the children are likely to occupy themselves with activities that they think are good for them but in real sense they are harmful especially in their social life and their relationship with the community. This paper is going to look at the dangers of lack of after school activities for children, the extent of the problem, its consequences and the possible solutions that can be adopted to take control of the problem.

Statement of the problem

There is an alarming danger that comes along with the social life of children that are not involved in constructive activities after school or lack parental care. In some cases the lack of parental attention is called uninvolved parenting. According to Diana Baumrind, uninvolved parenting which is also known as neglectful parenting is a style of parenting characterized by lack of responsiveness to the needs of a child. When kids are in school, they are attended to by their teachers and are involved in play with other kids; but when they get home they lack supervision of their parents and are likely to involve themselves in behaviors that are harmful to their social.

The children especially teenagers will find pleasure in taking alcohol and abusing drugs. They tend to believe that these will make them feel more relaxed and superior. 3 out of 10 teenagers that do not get the deserved attention from their parents especially after school think of taking drugs and related substances. The end result is they become irresponsible adults who may not even be able to take care of themselves. They become a burden to the community because all the time they have to be taken care of otherwise they can be destructive in what they do.

Children that don’t engage themselves in after school activities are also at risk of being overweight. Research reveals that in the last three decades obesity in children in the United States of America has more than doubled while in adolescents it has tripled. The percentage of children between the ages of 6 and 11 years that are obese has gone up from 7.1% in 1980 to almost 18% by 2010. On the same note, adolescents between the age of 12 and 19 years are seen rising in obesity from 4.9% to 17.5% over the same duration of time (Larson & Wilson, 2004).

In the United States, most of the households own at least one television set. Children that don’t engage in any after school activities find it wise to spend their time behind television screens. Without proper monitoring, these children will watch programs and movies that are not helpful to them; apparently they will prefer movies with fighting, violence, crime and related themes. When exposed to these for some time, they tend to think that it right to practice what they watched on television. In the long run the children may involve themselves in criminal activities because they think it right for them. This is a social problem because it has a negative impact on the community. Children will start practicing crime due to lack of appropriate after school programs.

In adolescents, if there is no activity after school, they will go out socializing with their peers. Due to the changes and developments in their bodies, they will tend to associate with friends of the opposite gender. Being alone with nobody around them, they are likely to end up having sexual intercourse which could be unsafe or unprotected. The chances of pregnancies that are not planned for is very high if this behavior goes on from time to time. The kids born will not be properly taken care of by their parents because they are still young and unable to provide for the needs. This now becomes a problem for the society to take care of such kids who may end up not getting the care they should have received. They may grow up being another burden to the community.

Children and adolescents are not wise when it comes to decision making. When left on their own, they will choose friends that will help them accomplish their missions. The adolescents may select bad company that will later ruin their character; their choice of friends could no be the best for their good. All this is caused by the fact that children lack programs that will guide them on what to do when they come home from school. The friends chosen by teenagers are the ones who are likely to lead them into all kinds of social evils in the community. The friends are the ones who will provide links on how to get alcohol, drugs and other substances.

This issue of lack of activities or programs for children after school posses a threat to the social well being of the community at large and not just the involved individuals; when the effects come out, the entire community suffers. For example, if it is crime, the victims are the members of the community that the children reside. It is therefore necessary that investigations are initiated with the aim of determining the best programs that can be established for children and adolescents after they come from school.

The programs can have a positive impact in the social life of the community because the youth can engage themselves in activities that will make them useful to the society. This makes them more responsible adults in the future and can participate in the building of the economic as well as the social life of the communities that they come from. The after school programs and activities will make children be helpful in the community (Canuto Marcello & Jason Yaeger, 2000).

Apart from being helpful to the community, the after school programs, depending on what they are, can be used to discover the various talents that children have. Once talents have been discovered, they can be majored on and be what the children will earn a living when they grow up. After school programs are important for the social life of the community, lack of them translates to a social problem in the community.

References

Canut, M. & Jason, Y. (2000). The archeology of communities. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Diana, B. (2000). Parenthood in America: An encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO

Larson, R. & Wilson, S. (2004). Handbook for adolescent psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.