Coordinating a Community Project: Connecting Two Generations In the spring of 2014, I launched a community initiative aimed at connecting two generations—adult immigrants and children admitted to Mattel Children’s Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). This project was part of my work at Olympus Adult Day Care Center in West Los Angeles, under the Social and Psychological Department. The participants and clients at Olympus Adult Center were adults from diverse nationalities and religious minorities, including Iranians, Russians, Armenians, Kurds, Azeris, Latin Americans, and American citizens. Understanding the unique challenges and rich cultural experiences these individuals brought with them, I proposed a project that would foster a sense of purpose and connection. The idea was to collect toys and donations, as well as write postcards with heartfelt messages for hospitalized children. This initiative was met with overwhelming support from the adults at the cent...

  leadership, diversity and empowerment. Diversity, Equity and inclusion   Women are underrepresented in all areas of leadership. This can be solving if we play a role in leveling women up. One of the way is to emphasize and value the diverse and rich strengths that make potential women bold. This helps encouraging future generation of girls to have courageous enough to lead in our communities and serve the society they reside. There are a few practical ways to do this is holding an inclusive leadership forum that brings together women in different backgrounds, professions with different ideas. The sessions in different forums can address relevant topics within the specific field and provides practical tools and resources for attendees to implement at their activities and interest, business, workplace, educational place, activism, and…    

  Community resources are a  group of services and/or assisted programme that are provided to the members of a community for free or at an affordable price . Each resources is made available to community members to help them become self reliant and maintain their human rights and well being. 

 

Along with many other wonderful coworkers who worked hard to conduct wellness workshops, I have received a recognition. This is great moment.  to respect privacy of my colleague, I covered her face.  

 

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 A few pictures at a glance If you are interested in learning about my projects, please click this link which is also provided on the taskbar menu of this blog. Healthy Start Program @Liggett E.S 7/28/2022 Another great event, fundraising with Echoes of Hope, the executive director is amazing, helpful. https://www.echoesofhope.org/ Healthy Start Program held a big and wonderful assembly in the school. Macro Event:  Leading a Wellness Assembly in my school  Jun 2022 **************************************** Macro Event: PPE Project  In a weekly basis for 3 months, distributed about 1200 Personal Protective Equipments  ********************************** Healthy Start Program  staff  Soraya Fallah and one of the staff from Center Clothes Corner She allowed me to take pictures.  Center for Clothes corner Getting donations and gifts for my community from  The Volunteer League of the SFV (Center for Clothes corner), May 2022 ***********...