Citizen Participation

This weeks blog is about citizen participation and how it effects my CP. I have been reaching out to several CP opportunities and am still waiting for a response. I am still hoping o work with veterans but as the days pass I may become more desperate and have to reach out to some other folks. Hopefully this will be resolved by the end of the day. I am sending emails out to "homefirst", which is a homeless shelter in San Jose and they allow volunteers to help in the kitchen and I am also reaching out to a friend on the Los Altos Rotary club to see if she may be able to help me in some capacity.

Regrouping

          I made contact with my proposed CP yesterday as i had a doctors appointment at the Palo Alto VA, which is the hub for all VA's in the region and all requests were to be sent there anyway. I stopped into the "volunteer services center" and the person behind the desk told me that the Veterans Administration requires a minimum of a 100 hr commitment to offset the cost of training and blood work that must be accomplished; because of HIPA laws and the like everyone must be trained on privacy rights of patients regardless of contact or not with sensitive files. Also he stated that it would take at least four weeks to get everything processed for me to be a part of the team, so "I could be finished somewhere else before I was even able to start there". So, this leaves me with a bit of a quandary as to where I will be able to work. I had my heart set on helping veterans in some capacity,  perhaps iI can work homeless veterans? So I will have to regroup and rethink my CP, hopefully making contact with someone very soon. My CP will hopefully give a voice to veterans who have given so much to this country and are now seemingly left out in the wind by the federal, state, and local governments.

New Semester

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