Employee assistance programs

definitions. Mutual aid in reference to organizational theory means “voluntary trades of resources and service that will benefit each party” (Wikipedia). Mutual aid in emergency services service is “An agreement among emergency responders to lend assistance across jurisdictional boundaries” (Mutual aid). Mutual aid eliminates the need to have competition amongst each other (Rosen). Peter Kropotkin…

xecutive Report: University of Southern California (USC) Summer Bridge Program Overview The Academic Counseling Services (ACS) is a unit of the Undergraduate Programs in the Office of the Provost. The purpose of the ACS is to identify and assist specific populations in an effort to increase retention and graduation rates of undergraduate students at the University of Southern California (USC). In collaboration with academic partners, ACS offers general academic advising, tutoring services,…

Absolute poverty is a condition where people lack the wealth or means to cater to their basic needs, while the imbalance between people of different sex, class and status is inequality. Both states have negative impacts on a country, affecting a large number of the population, hence it is necessary to develop strategies to curb them. According to the World Bank (2016), 66% of the population in developing countries survived on less than $3.10 per day in 1990 and the percentage of people living in…

Help for someone people is second nature. Helping others no matter what the circumstances may be is just instinct for them. While for others help is something they approach more cautiously it’s something they choose to do if it does not negatively impact them in the process. Help is complex and confusing. Should it always be given to those who need it? Or should help only be offered if we can offer it without risking ourselves? For some the answer is clear we should all strive to help as many…

The only thing that readers get to learn about foreign aid is how bad it is in providing assistance to the developing countries. The readers get to learn that foreign aid creates dependency and makes the people in the developing countries not seek employment for themselves. Thus, because they cannot seek employment, they cannot earn a respectable…

The limitations on Foreign Aid include whether or not it is effective, deciding between a planner and searcher, and misallocation of provided aid by government officials. The billions of dollars that have been collected worldwide, and specifically designated to foreign aid, have been abused by politicians in developing countries and in turn, have registered as not generating an economic growth or negatively affecting a developing country’s economy. The big argument within economics and foreign…

It is better to think of foreign aid as an investment where the growth we stimulate in developing countries by providing developmental assistance, promoting peace, education, and health assistance, provides friendlier and wealthier customers to buy US products. Currently, the top 43 consumers of American agricultural products have been past recipients of American foreign aid. Big companies recognize the economic advantage…

The United States should stop sending aid to foreign countries There many different opinions on the touchy subject . Some U.S. citizens may say, “If we help them, then They will help us when we need it” . Some U.S. citizens may say, “ Stop foreign aid; They can hate us for free “ (http://ivn.us/2014/02/04/) . Some citizens of the U.S. , think that it depends what country it is and if the aid is financial or military . foreign countries may just want the U.S’s money . Some may want the U.S.’s…

research what made a program exemplary. According to an article by Pogrow, “an exemplary program is one that can increase learning to a surprising extent with a great deal of consistency”. (Pogrow, 1998) This definition helped me to narrow down the list of programs and to have a criterion on which to base my decision. I also found an article written on the NAEYC website, that describes six principals that can be used as a criterion of reference on how to become an exemplary program. These…

several programs for the state. Last year funds were cut for a particular program that was implemented during the George W. Bush terms in office. Connecticut was chosen to pilot the program initially and due to our success it was implemented throughout the other states. The program was called Access To Recovery (ATR) and the problem the program was designed to address was to assist former inmates and people involved with the judicial system i.e. (parole, probation and court diversion programs…