What is your opinion about programs such as Delancey Street
Delancey Street is a non-profit, self-supporting job training foundation for substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless, and others who have hit rock bottom. They have a moving company, a restaurant, a cafe, a coach limo service, and a paratransit service to help residents. This non-profit program was established in San Francisco, California and further expanded to Los Angeles, California. This then later expanded to many other cities and countries. The amount of time these substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless, and others who have hit rock bottom are in Delancey Street, their behavior changes because their attitude changes from being a criminal to becoming a positive person. Delancey Street helps those that hit rock bottom by changing these individual’s attitude towards themselves and others. This program helps those that grew up in a bad neighborhood to change their perspective around and give them a better life style after getting out of jail or wants to change their life around while in jail. There are no labels on Delancey Street because everyone is dealing with the same problem and wants to change their life around. The goal of Delancey Street is to help substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless, and others who have hit rock bottom to turn their lives around. The goal is to help these people live a better lifestyle, without drugs, without going in and out of jail, without living on the street, it’s to help these people get a job to make money and have a happy life. This program is giving these people a second chance at life after making a mistake because they grew up in a bad neighborhood. There really isn’t much to improve Delancey Street, it’s the best it could be. It gives individuals a second chance at life and there’s nothing to complain about. One thing it didn’t mention is housing. It would be great if all these individuals were given a house or apartment to live in and then that would create a bit more jobs, like a cleaning service or something. My opinion on programs like Delancey Street is excellent because the impact a program that could change a state of mind. This program technically rehabilitated these substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless, and others who have hit rock bottom minds to life a better lifestyle.
Reflection: The assignment that I chose to reflect on is the Delancey Street Video. As soon as I learned that Delancey Street helped turn around the lives of substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless, and others who have hit rock bottom, it reminded me of a place that I learned about a couple of years ago, it somewhat relates to Homeboy Industries in Chinatown. These two places are great because these programs give those people a second chance at life, since they messed up the first time. Even though Homeboy isn’t related to Delancey Street, I believe it is a great place to learn about as well because it’s local to Pasadena. It’s completely irrelevant, but I thought people should know about it. I felt that in doing this assignment my academic skills have improved because I had to watch a video and then answer questions to it. I usually do these assignments in class, but had to pay attention more because there wasn’t an option to stop the video and answer the question. When I did this assignment at home, I had more time to focus on each question individually and put in more effort to answer the question as best as I could. I could also rewatch the video as many times as I wanted just in case I missed something that was important. My academic skills improved because this assignment helped me put in more effort towards my work, rather than doing a sloppy job on answering questions and just getting part of it correct. My learning goals for my next assignment is to research more into the topic. For example, like in Delancey Street, I only used the video to answer the questions that was assigned. I should’ve searched more into Delancey Street on Google to have more of an understanding of the program because the video might not have had all the details that I wanted to know. On my next assignment, I am going to research more into the topic that we are learning about to gain a full understanding of the topic. This is going to help me accomplish not only finishing the assignment, but help me gain a full understanding.