Wasteful Practices at Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center

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From the scale of 1-10, my internship is about 4. As a nonprofit organization, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center waste a lot of money for breakfast and lunch for mappers. For example, from Monday to Friday, we have about 30 meals for breakfast and lunch, which at the end of the day being thrown away. Our supervisor tells us to throw the food away every afternoon. In Harlem, many people suffer from hunger and the Mount Sinai throws around 30-40 meals every day. As a result, I question myself, do I really want to work for this organization? Field and site coordinators emphasize health consequences of junk food and raise awareness of health risks produced by consumption of junk foods. However, nonprofit organization Mount Sinai orders unhealthy food, such as pizza, cheese sandwiches, Chinese food, sugary drinks, etc. Adolescents who eat too much sugar, fat and processed food and too few vitamins are more likely to develop chronic health problems over time. These might include obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Does this nonprofit organization want to help at-risk populations? In addition, several employees who work as Health Educators and responsible for creating and implementing health education programs do not have …show more content…

I found very challenging to communicate in a culturally appropriate way with the young mappers due to differences in age, ethnicity, and education. For example, on August 3rd my supervisor and I had an issue with one of the mappers. A young girl who is from a dysfunctional family verbally abused me and my supervisor. Due to the fact that the young mapper is only 18 years old and was not able to manage her feelings properly, I told her that I will not argue with her and let my supervisor handle the situation. However, due to repetitive verbal and then physically abused one of our securities, the young mapper was expelled from the Mount

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