Reflection On Community Assessment

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Reflective Practice Through A Community Assessment Assignment Tenzin Kelsang Student number: 821-751-393 Date of submission: 13th May, 2014 Professor: Eva Hearn Humber College ITAL For the community placement, I completed my community hours at Canadian Tibetan Associations of Ontario (CTAO), which is also known as Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre. This organization provides educational programs such as Tibetan classes, religion classes and also cultural dance classes to all people and especially for Tibetan Canadians including children to seniors. They also provide a variety of services to Tibetan newcomers such as settlement service (job development service, referral services). In this placement, my role is to help the children to teach them how to read Tibetan and I also assist the Tibetan performing arts teacher by arranging the instruments for the students. In addition, I assist them with organizing events such as cultural performance, cultural events (Tibetan new year). From this experience, I had great time interacting with children and also improved my communication skills. Moreover, I feel more comfortable to communicate with all ages with the help of the experience that I got from the community placement. It was a great opportunity to help others for their needs and also learned that how community placements can help others need in their life’s.. The organization is located at: 40 Titan Road Etobicoke, ON. M8Z 2J8 Office Hours: Mon - closed, Tues -Sun: 10am - 6pm Contact Number: 416-410-5606 In Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre, the clients are supported through different types of determinants of health such as education, culture, social support and employment and working conditions. The two determin... ... middle of paper ... ...fundamentals of nursing (5th ed). Toronto: Mosby. 2. Betancourt, J.R. (2003). Defining Cultural Competence: A practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic Disparities in health and health care. Public Health Network. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1497553/pdf/12815076.pdf 3. Shankar, J. et al (2013). Education as social determinant of health: issues facing indigenous and visible minority students in postsecondary education in western Canada. International Journal of environment research and public health. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.rap.ocls.ca/docview/1467988743/fulltextPDF?accountid=11530 4. Canadian Nurses Association (2005). Social Determinants of Health and Nursing: A Summary of the Issues. Retrieved from http://www.cna-aiic.ca/~/media/cna/page%20content/pdf%20en/2013/07/26/10/38/bg8_social_determinants_e.pdf

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