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Evi Hernandez has 18 years of work experience in the field of public health, with 12 of those years working within the non-profit sector at the California Health Collaborative (CHC). His experience in the public health sector has been primarily in the areas of tobacco control, alcohol and other drug prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, youth development, and the prevention and management of chronic diseases. He currently serves as the Director of Program Services for CHC. He is affiliated with various health initiatives and community service/volunteer organizations throughout California. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Science, Community Health option and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chicano/Latino Studies from California
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I agree with my groups decision about what should be a priority in the building on strengths program. I think working with partners like a Nuestra Comunidad will increase resources and funding. The Nuestra Comunidad provides mental health and substance abuse resources and assistance to the Latino Hispanic community in Mississippi State (Hunting, K., & Gleason, B. L, 2012). More funding will help support the needs of Latino Hispanic community. Nuestra Comunidad mission is to provide the best quality help of mental health and substance abuse treatments and give resources (Hunting, K., & Gleason, B. L, 2012).

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My week 6 in Public Health was filled with unprofessionalism and full of sadness how public school has become. I was at Mt. Gleason again this week with Nurse Archer and Nurse Ana. We had to organize health immunization cards that has not been organized for a while. While organizing the health immunization cards, we noticed that the health immunization cards that were in the filing cabinets were mostly students that transitioned to Middle School or have transferred to another schools. It was very disorganized.

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