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OUR PEOPLE, OUR MISSION Global Health eMagazine August 2023 Highlights Spotlight Clinical Case of the Month Reflections Global Mental Health Hispanic/Latinx Communities Voices of Ugandan Students Our Beautiful Planet Innovation and Technology Nursing Division Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Article of the Month Video of the Month Dr. Menn Memorial Among the Letters Congratulations Welcome Calendar Hispanic/Latinx Voices; Stories from our Community Section Editor; Elvis Novas Written by Elvis Novas Advisor for the Dominican Community Center and member of the Board of Directors of Housatonic Habitat for Humanity, Danbury, CT “I am very grateful for the privilege of being selected as editor for the column “Hispanic/Latinx Voices: Stories from our Community ‘’ of the Global Health eMagazine.” My desire for a better community has been the guide to introduce me to community work, specifically in the Hispanic/Latinx community. This experience has allowed me to see and treat people in our community with great human and professional values; men and women who just need a platform to share their stories and amplify the voices of others. Our vision for the column “Hispanic/Latinx Voices: Stories From Our Community” is based on the interest of making our people, culture, values, and points of view known and at the same time motivate our audience to be more interested in our community. With this, we seek greater visibility for our community, the opportunity for our people to expose their talents and abilities to communicate and for others to know our true stories. I encourage you to follow us each month as we feature inspiring stories from our Hispanic/Latinx community in the city of Danbury, Connecticut. This month we focus on the Youth Academy for Latino Leaders and the Summer Program. This article was written by Jacqueline Cabrera, a very well known writer to the readers. Please feel free to send me your ideas or thoughts at enovas@gmail.com. Global Health Family Photo News Previous Issues of the eMagazine 20 Hispanic/Latinx continued on next page >>
OUR PEOPLE, OUR MISSION Youth Academy for Latino Leaders (Y.A.L.L.) Written by Jacqueline Cabrera Global Health eMagazine August 2023 Highlights Spotlight Clinical Case of the Month Reflections Global Mental Health Hispanic/Latinx Communities Voices of Ugandan Students Our Beautiful Planet Innovation and Technology Nursing Division Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Article of the Month Video of the Month Dr. Menn Memorial Among the Letters Congratulations Welcome Calendar Global Health Family Photo News Previous Issues of the eMagazine Jacqueline is a Dominican-American, abstract artist who has always been fascinated by the beauty of nature and people. She studied sociology at Baruch College in New York City, but as she pursued her degree, she realized that there was more to life than just theory. She had always been artistically inclined, but she felt like she couldn’t create the same kind of work as others. What started as ideas quickly became actionable steps. We started having meetings both in person and virtually regularly. Months later the Youth Academy for Latino Leaders becomes a reality. The Dominican Community Center and Nuvance Global Health Academy have merged forces and created the Y.A.L.L. or Youth Academy for Latino Leaders. The main goal of Y.A.L.L. is to help develop college-ready students and through them and their families help create strong, informed, and active Latino communities that can serve as assimilation hubs for newly migrant families. Back in January, we held our first official meeting. The best part was that at each meeting we caught up with each other’s lives too. Slowly as the weeks progressed, we got to know each other better. We purposely developed positive, supportive relationships as a foundation for the program. Each giving our input, all having an equal part in participation. I’ll like to highlight our DCC Secretary, Jason Nova, kept us on our toes to make sure we were on time. He was the architect for this project. Always making sure that we kept focused and on time. Creating this project was such a rewarding experience for me. Throughout my life, I have had so many mentors as I am pretty sure each single one of my fellows can attest to as well. We need others to help us build our identity, they help us see what we can’t see in us. The Youth Academy for Latino Leaders was developed by a group of community leaders here in our beloved city of Danbury with the specific goal is to improve our graduates’ quality of life. Community data, along with our lived experiences were used to create the objectives for this program. This goal will be attained by ensuring that our graduates gain self-development skills through the mentorship experiences they receive from their mentors and facilitators. The Dominican Community Center is in Danbury, currently, the Danbury Public Schools fall under the Alliance Districts. Alliance Districts have the lowest-performing schools in the state. Danbury also has a 66.8 as their Next Generation Accountability Index which is how prepared students are to go to college. We hope to help improve our student’s college outcomes by bridging the gap. 21 Hispanic/Latinx continued on next page >>
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