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Program Design Draft
Maria Moya
CHS 320
Program Design Draft
Hypothesis: If we provide other options to victims to access their resources and worker, such as case managers, counselors, etc., during pandemics, then fewer domestic violence cases and more safe victims.
Mission Statement: For victims, the mission is to guide them with all available resources that are available during pandemics, to teach them how safe is the available alternative options, to work with them on the type of electronics that need for this access, to empower the victims with knowledge of how to be safe during state crisis.
Goal: To develop and prepare the alternative ways of accessing services during pandemics and state crises so that Domestic Violence victims could receive their supports, resources, and needs to be addressed.
Objectives-
By the year, increase 25% of alternative ways to communicate to counselors, case managers, and other workers.
By the year, at least 25% of workshops to be available for victims and cases to be worked on during pandemics.
By the year to decrease 50% of domestic violence calls and cases.
By six months, 50% of 100 workshops to have participants and know how to access these programs by Telehealth communications.
Program Plan
Faculty and Staff- (can be either part time/ full time and either in person or virtually)
Program Director/ Assistant Program Director- (Full time, virtual and in person)
Coordinate and supervise the program tasks. To administer, motivate, hire, train to staff. Create and nurture affective communication within the organization. Initiate and set goals for programs base on the organization strategic objectives. Develop and approve operations and budgets.
Bilingual Preferred
One Program Director, Two Assistant Program Director
Three days virtual, two days in person
Requirements
Master’s degree in social work, human services
Two years or more of managements supervision
Five years or more of managerial experience
Solid knowledge of the overall department function
Education Coordinator- (Part time, either remotely or in person)
The Education Coordinator provides support and assistance, development of educational programs. Duties may include use of electronics communications and technology, preparation of reports and program documentation, develop workshop for domestic violence victims.
Five Education Coordinators
Bilingual preferred
Should choose wether in person or remotely, aware of the change of shift if need to revise more hours
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in social work, human service or related field
One year of work experience in educational setting
Five year of work experience in domestic violence
Work independently on highly complex or strategic assignment
Victim Advocate- (Full time, remotely and in person, shift change)
Providing crisis intervention, safety planning, counseling and advocacy. Providing clients with information and referrals to outside services. Assess the urgency of victims needs and seek immediate assistance for those issues affecting victim safety.
Five victim advocate
Bilingual preferred
Requirements
Master’s degree in social work, human service, criminal justice or related field
Five years of work experience in domestic violence
Must have experience providing mental health services.
Social Worker- (Full time & Part time, in person or remotely)
Responsible for managing multiple clients and their individual needs. Developing treatment for clients with mental illness or clients recovering from traumatic events. Address patient concerns and goals while maintaining constant communications with the patients. Develop care plans for patients.
Six social workers
Bilingual preferred
Three full time in person, 3 part time remotely (shift change)
Requirements
Bachelor’s or Master degree in social worker
Valid and current LCSW or LMSW license
Five years of clinical social work experience
Two years or more in working with domestic violence
Ability to make psychosocial assessment and develop and implement care plans
Domestic Violence Counselors- (Full time and Part time, remote or in person)
Promote safety, independence and healing for victims of domestic violence. Provide hotline, counseling, support group, advocacy services. Must be active providing services either by phone, online or in person.
Five Domestic violence counselors
Bilingual preferred
Rotates shift either remote or in person
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree
Two years of experience in working with victims of domestic violence or Telehealth counselings
Ability to work in a fast paced environment, assess priorities, handle multiple assignments
Intern/ Volunteer- (Fully Remote)
Will have the unique role of answering questions, debrief difficult calls, chats, coordinating and planning support groups, engagement activities.
Three intern students per semester (150 hours)
Two volunteer worker (6 months, 24 hours per week)
Requirements
Intern must be in any degree program within human service related
Volunteer worker must provide resume, cover letter, letter recommendation
Computer skills knowledge of zoom or Telehealth communications
Must show good time management skills and be responsible
Activities
Faculty and Staff-
Before hiring all faculty and staff would bee trained properly to use and have knowledge of using Telehealth communications. How to create zooms meeting, phone calls meetings and chat meeting safely for the victims. All be preparation for pandemics and state crisis.
After hiring all faculty and staff are required to participate in meeting and workshops.
Meetings would be giving three times a month (all meetings would be remotely). Meeting would be an opportunity for workers to ask questions, provide new ideas for the program.
Workshops- as the program is growing, workshops would be held every two months or if new activities or service is added, the worker would be informed. Workshops would be either remotely or in person.
All worker would also be prepared to work remotely during state crisis and pandemics. If any pandemics occur worker would be prepared with phone and computer to be worked from home.
Clients/victims-
In the program there would be workshops provided to the clients. The workshops would teach clients how to access to all alternatives ways, to reach to their worker or counselors. Also, clients would be provided with technology equipment if necessary. They would have the opportunity to learn how to use each electronics devices.
-The workshop would be help at the beginning of each month and the end of each month (If the 1st fall in a weekend the workshop would be held the first Monday of the month and the last Monday of the month). There would be two sections for each workshop. For the beginning of the month the first section would be 9am- 11am in English second section at 1pm-3pm in Spanish in person. For the end of the month would be the same time but through zoom meeting (link would be provided through email or flyers to the client)
-To obtain electronic devices would be giving once a month with referrals from their workers.
For electronic devices workshop would be held in person. The time for these workshops would be from 9am to 12pm on Wednesday’s of the second week of the month. While receiving the devices, the client would have an opportunity to learn how to access the program online, how to set up appointment with their worker either in person or online. Also, they would learn if having emergency how to access to the emergency portal.
Completion-
After each workshops clients would be giving survey giving the program feedback to either know how to maintain or the improvements of the programs. After each client completion goal, they would be asked to speak in either workshop to provide information and how the program was a help to complete their goal and how they survive or write a letter to be giving to other clients.
The Funerary Statues of Prince Rahotep and Nofret, His Wife
The Funerary Statues of Prince Rahotep and Nofret, His Wife
At the beginning of Old Kingdom Egypt, a rather rapid development of characteristics that defined “classical” Egyptian art took place. Later works would strictly adhere to these guidelines. In relief and painting, the human figure is represented with the head, pelvis, legs and feet sideways, or in profile. Much the opposite, the eye and shoulders are shown in front view. In early Egyptian art there was little or no attempt made to produce a photorealistic product. The Relief’s produced around this time period are very shallow and color is applied in flat hues. Another signature of early Egyptian art is the lack of linear perspective, or depth. These “rules” also carried over into the works of statuary produced contemporaneously with these wall paintings and reliefs.
In the realm of statuary, various standing and seated positions were adopted. The exacting frontality seen in earlier works resurfaces in statues produced in and around the same period. A hallmark of Old Kingdom works is the tendency to emphasize uniformity and to minimize the suggestion of motion. Notable Old Kingdom works of sculpture are: Chephren (Fig. 1), The Sheik-el-Beled , and the Seated Scribe (fig. 2). Because painting is not very permanent it was used very little as a medium of representation; it appears to have been used primarily in accenting of sculpture. An unusual example of painting in Old Kingdom Egypt is the Meidum geese (Fig. 3). This rather uncommon painting was found in the mastaba tomb of Nefermaat and Atet . Another work found close-by is an incredible pair of painted limestone funerary statues. This couple, represented as equals, is the prince Rahotep and his wife Nofret. Constructed by a masterful craftsman, at around 2630 BC, this couple has come to single-handedly represent Fourth Dynasty painted statuary.
As mentioned before, early dynastic works adhere to very precise formulae, and these two royals are no exception. The prince is seated facing forward, with his knees and ankles touching. His right hand is clenched, and held over his heart. His gaze is straightforward and vacant. Lastly, as in most other contemporary works, his skin is represented as a deep red/brown. The figure epitomizes the Fourth Dynasty tendency to make forms heavier, thicker, and more durable. This is surely so to deter theft, vandalism, or to insure permanence. If it can be said, at all, that this statue is rather unadorned, the same can not be said for his regal wife.
The Princess Nofret sits serenely with her arms crossed, gazing into nothing, much like her Prince. She wears an elaborate daidem , which offsets her rather heavy wig. The statue also alludes to a thin, gauze-like cloth used in her dress through showing a trace of nipples. The necklace worn by this aristocratic Egyptian Princess is also given the utmost attention, with its elaborate painting, gilding, and prominence as placed against the plain ecru hue of the dress. Works of this sort were reserved for nobility. As such, no commoner could afford the sheer luxuriance of contracting such an opulent statue, even for his or her burial. This is due not only to the cost of construction, but also to the religious and social ramifications of the statues, and the meaning inherent in them. Statuary of this sort was used as the eternal home of the ka , and as the organic body, even if well preserved, decomposed; the spirit would live forever in the statue. This explains the photorealim, and very idealistic proportions used in ancient Egypt.
The somewhat vacant stares shown in funerary statues also serve an integral purpose in the afterlife. These were tumultuous times, war, and civil unrest was commonplace. Therefore, a serene gaze, and a comfortable position would be best for the deceased, ending all the worry, and troubles of earthly life, it also assured others that death was noble, even beautiful.
If death was noble for members of royal families, then it surely had to be so for the peasants at that time, even if it was simplified. The statues of commoners were less grand than those of their rulers, but they showed the same artistic principle, and serenity. Most plebeians were shown seated, cross-legged, or in a chair, not of a royal proportion, but of a more modest scale, as in the seated scribe (Fig. 2). The common citizen in Old Kingdom Egypt was also shown to be bodily less perfect than their god-like rulers. To show that they were of less divine blood, Most had sagging pectoral muscles, fat stomachs and were made of less expensive materials.
The conventions established in Old Kingdom statuary, whether for a royal, or even the commoner, influenced Egyptian art immeasurably. The strict poses and positions of the deceased would be used for 3 millennia following. If the statues presented are truly the eternal home of Rahotep, and Nofret they have definitely withstood the test of time. And will continue to do so, influencing countless other works, as they have for 5 millennia already.
Fig. 1. King Chefren, diorite, Fourth Dynasty, Cairo, Egypt
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Fig. 2 Seated Scribe, painted limestone, Fifth Dynasty, Louvre, Paris
Fig. 3. Meidum Geese, wall painting, Fourth Dynasty, Egypt
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Fig. 4. Rahotep and Nofret, painted limestone, Fourth Dynasty, Egypt
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Bibliography:
Bibliography of the funerary statues of Rahotep and NofretHuyghe, Rene, Ed. Larousse Encyclopedia of Prehistoric and Ancient Art. New York: Prometheus, 1957.
Silcotti, Albert. Guide to the Pyramids of Egypt, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1997.
Smith, W.S. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt. New Haven: Yale University, 1998.
Reeves, Nicholas. Ancient Egypt: the Great Discoveries. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999
Tiraditti, Francesco. Egypt: Treasures from the Museum of Cairo. New York: Abrams, 1999
Profound early control of highly pathogenic SIV by an effector memory T-cell vaccine is an article written by Scot et al
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Profound early control of highly pathogenic SIV by an effector memory T-cell vaccine is an article written by Scot et al. in the urge to control the pathogenicity of the SIV by the application of the memory T-cells to the specific sites that are responsible for the body immune response, the CD4+ and CD8+ cells. The research is important as it gives a direction as well as hopes that may lead to the development of a vaccine that can control the pathogenicity of the SIV. The author states that the lentiviruses, the Simian Immunodeficiency virus (SIV) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are caused by the immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The two lentiviruses can effectively evade the host’s immune system, and when they get established in the host’s body, the infections caused by the two viruses become hard to control by the immunological mechanisms.
However, there is hope of immunological control as the viruses become vulnerable to the immune control just before they begin the viral dissemination and massive replication in their initial establishment of the infection during the first few days just after the mucosal exposure. The article reports that the simian immunodeficiency virus vaccine that includes the rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) vectors establishes an indefinitely persistent, high-frequency SIV-effector memory T-cells responses at the potential sites of replication for the simian immunodeficiency virus in the rhesus macaques. The T- cells can stringently control the highly pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVMAC239) infection early before the virus challenge to the mucosa.
Thirteen of the twenty-four rhesus macaques that receives either the RhCMV vectors alone or a combination of the RhCMV vectors followed by the adenovirus 5 indicated early signs of complete control of the simian immunodeficiency virus that is the undetectable plasma virus. In twelve of the thirteen rhesus macaques that showed entire control of the SIV, there was a long-term protection of the animals for a period that was more than or equal to one year. The protection of the animals was characterized by occasional blips of the plasma viraemia that ultimately waned. Another characteristic is that the predominantly undetectable cell-associated viral load in the blood and the lymph nodes mononuclear cells. The third characteristic is that there was no depletion of the effector-site CD4+ memory of the T-cells and no induction or boosting of the simian immunodeficiency virus Env-specific antibodies. The last characteristic is that, the induction followed by the loss of the T-cells to the simian immunodeficiency virus protein that is not included in the RhCMV vectors. The protection of the animal correlated with the magnitude of the peak simian immunodeficiency virus-specific CD8+ T-cells responses in the vaccine phase and this occurred without anamnestic T-cell responses.
It is worth noting that the long-term RhCMV vector associated with the SIV control was insensitive to either CD4+ or the CD8+ lymphocytes depletion. Besides, at the necropsy, the cells associated with the simian immunodeficiency virus was occasionally quantifiable at the limit of the final viral clearance. Therefore, the persistent vectors such as the CMV and their associated TEM responses would significantly contribute to the development of an effective and efficacious vaccine that is aimed to control the development of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS).
Since there are some lights regarding the availability of a vaccine that is targeted to control the pathogenicity of the SIV and HIV viruses after infection, there is a need for more experiments in the same field. The experiments should be directed towards the development of a vaccine that at this time won’t target the infectious agent after it has begun to cause harm to the host’s body but towards the development of a vaccine that aims to block the infection by the infectious agent. The blockage can be achieved through the same mechanism of memory T-cells in the immune cells such as the CD4+ and the CD8+ cells. As in the previous experiment, the immune cells showed no signs of depletion. There is a higher chance that this experiment will work out well and lead to the development of a blocking vaccine against the SIV and AIDS. The reason as to why I chose the experiment is because it will help reduce the number of infections and this will lead to a more healthy population.