Positive Action Community Center Inc. wants to work for you. We need to create more living wage jobs, improve our schools, make sound business decisions individually, and at the corporate level in particular. Our top priority is to equip you with the necessary education, and provide excellent services. It is an investment in the human capital. In this process we are also offering to our clients opportunities to join our health education, and public healthcare advocacy programs.
With more than a decade of public and private experiences, Positive Action Community Center, Inc. (PACC) knows what it takes to find solutions, navigate complicated client or agency issues, and get things done."
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LIST OF ISSUES
EDUCATION
We prioritize educating our clients. We subscribe to a client-based philosophy that leads us to implement effective programs, and providing consultation to individuals and businesses seeking our services. Because help is essential as a core value, we envision Positive Action Community Center, Inc., as a game changer, a true resource center for everyone.
HEALTHCARE
Our emphasis on health prevention, and education is sustained by the belief that individuals in communities that benefit from preventive interventions or initiatives may not easily fall within the web of diseases incidence and prevalence. The lack of healthcare, or access to healthcare creates a compounding effects to their mere existence, and add to the social, and economic ills within many communities. Our motto "Because you need help" is a driving force for everyone to reach out to realize a new way of standing for their wellbeing, through prevention, and responsability. Health is our social responsibility as well. Positive Action Community Center, Inc. plans to create a Healthcare institution in the near future.
DIVERSITY
The lack of heathcare, and prevention have plagued many minority communities. Regardless of the ethnicity, Positive Action Community Center, Inc. seeks to make an impact through the delivery of its services. It envisions in the future, a platform creating opportunities for medical, ethnic and social researches that foster awareness, and yield positive contributions. We are striving for our grant and research endeavors to mean more for the clients we serve.
BUSINESS
In addition to our social focus, we provide consulting services to businesses, and individuals free of charge. Our experiences have dictated that education and know-how can help reduce the rate of new business failures, increase profit margins, and plan strategically. The future of technology in the financial or business services is highly important for survival. The growing lack and need for budgetary management, and systems, ways to checking into an acquisition candidate, actuarial, benefits and compensation consulting, are some of the challenges many businesses have faced in the past, and current eras. Having a non-profit organization to provide limited consultation is a great plus. Positive Action Community Center, Inc.has branded itself as unique in the non-profit field.
OUR PAST, CURRENT AND FUTURE PROGRAMS
Some of our past activities consisted of various social , business education and empowerment, literacy, after school, and health prevention programs.
SAMPLE OF OUR PAST PROGRAMS
Business Focus: Grant FORM (Grant Writing For Me)
The goal of the program was to help business owners explore avenues to grant , and business proposal writings. We provided a week training at no cost. 20 of the participants , at the end of the training were able to write their own business plans, and sought external financing.
Management Focus: Budget Please !
A Financial course which was provided to 7 Families to help them alleviate the rampant rate of divorce due to financial mismanagement,and lack of planning, and 6 business owners. 3 Families were on the verge of divorce. After the course, the participants were able to adhere to their household budgets, thus avoiding crisis. The business owners developed sound budgets .The Program was offered in collaboration with 3 community churches.
Education Focus : Project ALPHA
This program targeted elderly Haitians who had limited writing, and reading skills, and were unable to move freely, and adjust within their community. The short-term goals were to help them increase their reading, and writing skills, to transfer them to another programs within the community. The program grew from 15 to 80 participants. It lasted one year. About 80% of the participants have continued, and acquired an elementary reading and writing skills level.
Education Focus: After Music
This program targeted 15 students from age 7 to 16, and provided piano, violin, guitar lessons in connection with Harmony School of Music in North Miami. Only one free lesson was offered weekly. The goal was to reduce delinquency within the community. A musical gala was organized, and the students' performance was noted. The program lasted 8 months.
Personal Development Focus: My Narrative Story/Histwa Pam
In fostering good citizenry, Positive Action Community Center, Inc was proud to implement in 2009, a two hour weekly communication outreach program for members of the Haitian Community where people came, and talked about issues affecting their lives. The program led to the creation of a narrative story initiative, the creation of an oral tradition to better communicate, and understand the need of this community. Further grant opportunities are expected to replicate the program in the near future.
Current Programs
Positive Action Community Center, Inc. is currently running various programs consisting of advocating on behalf of clients with housing, utilities, collection, and educational issues. We continue to provide free blood pressure, and diabetes check- ups to ensure that health assistance and prevention is possible though an organization that cares.
Future Plans
Cervical Cancer Narrative Stories
The Program
The Cervical Cancer Narrative Stories are a 3-hour weekly communication outreach program for members of the Haitian Community in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where women with interest in cervical cancer, or have been diagnosed with cervical cancer can come and talk about issues affecting their lives. The program is also available to all women. There are no specific requirements to adhere to the English language. The participants are free to express themselves, either in English, Creole, French, or Spanish. The organizational staff is multilingual.
The program will last 6 months. It is conceived as a free format program where participants, after registering, will enter a cozy room to talk about the disease, and its impact on their daily lives. Light snacks and water will be offered. A team of 1 doctoral student in conflict analysis and resolution from Nova Southeastern University, a researcher in mind-body medicine,and a volunteer psychologist will help facilitate the narrative processes, in a very congenial manner.
At the end of each cervical cancer narrative session, the participants will be invited to go to a soft music and relaxation room to reduce stressors.There will be a debriefing session by the staff after the participants leave the premises, and salient analyses will be highlighted. The researcher has a post-graduate certificate in conflict analysis and resolution, is a medical doctor and currently pursuing a Ph.D in Mind-Body Medicine. He will serve as the program coordinator.
At the end of the 6 months program, the participants will be asked to complete a survey about their experiences in the program. It is anticipated that the organization will create an oral tradition as a therapeutic approach for the participants to better understand their communications, concerns and fear. Such tradition will create a sense of ownership (my narrative story or histwa pam in Haitian Creole). Mind-Body Medicine therapies will help frame alternative interventions or treatments associated with the narrative stories The cervical cancer narrative program may lead to further grant funding and allow for larger scales initiatives.
LEARNING SPACE CENTER
Positive Action Community Center, Inc., plans to create a "Learning Space Center" where individuals can come to get solutions for their problems, and at the same token find an opportunity to learn about their own culture, listen to music, read, thus preserving their cultural heritage. A library with 150,000 books, a social media room are intended to that effect,and will serve as a learning platform. We envision a culture of learning, an academic forum where intellectuals can gather to share and promote knowledge. We plan to have a story telling room for children, and a research room for academics. We hope to become a think thank organization on culture, social policy, and community development strategies in 10 years. We also plan to create the Positive Action Community Center, Inc. Nursing School.
Partnerships to Establish
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