Students get to impact the communities that they are working with and also many students find their passion through this program. I know a number of people who have found their niche in helping others and through that they discovered what their future goals are, but prior to that the students were unsure of their future. One action that I plan to take in order to get more involved in my community is stay connected with everything that is going on in politics. Vote for local elections. Recognize who my local representatives are and the impact that they are having on me and my community as a whole. Often we tend to care about everything that is going on on a national level with politics , and that's okay, but I tend to forget that there are policy makers right in my backyard that are affected the people that are closest to far, in terms of proximity. Politicians get a bad wrap, rightfully so, but that doesn't mean that I can’t be engaged on what's going on in my neighborhood whether I completely support a candidate for a local position. Recently I have been more informed about the people in Johnson County who represent us. While in Memphis we had visited the mid-south peace and justice center and there was an activity where we split into two groups and we constructed the perfect
Students get to impact the communities that they are working with and also many students find their passion through this program. I know a number of people who have found their niche in helping others and through that they discovered what their future goals are, but prior to that the students were unsure of their future. One action that I plan to take in order to get more involved in my community is stay connected with everything that is going on in politics. Vote for local elections. Recognize who my local representatives are and the impact that they are having on me and my community as a whole. Often we tend to care about everything that is going on on a national level with politics , and that's okay, but I tend to forget that there are policy makers right in my backyard that are affected the people that are closest to far, in terms of proximity. Politicians get a bad wrap, rightfully so, but that doesn't mean that I can’t be engaged on what's going on in my neighborhood whether I completely support a candidate for a local position. Recently I have been more informed about the people in Johnson County who represent us. While in Memphis we had visited the mid-south peace and justice center and there was an activity where we split into two groups and we constructed the perfect