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This center supervises Jupiter's day-labor hiring center in a controlled and sanitary atmosphere. It provides several social services including occupational training, language and literacy instruction, counseling, health education, legal and other services to individuals in need.
What is El Sol Resource Center?
100
Variable costs for products, services, or taxes based on one's ability to pay.
What is a sliding fee scale?
100
This is a shared ride, door-to-door paratransit service that provides transportation for disabled residents and visitors in Palm Beach County.
What is Palm Tran Connection?
100
The process of connecting with others for sharing, information, ideas and support.
What is networking?
100
Any demand made upon you by either internal or external pressures and expectations that leads to the fight or flight response in the body and the subsequent biochemical changes in your body.
What is stress?
200
This organization has a drop-in center operated in West Palm Beach to provide supportive environment for persons diagnosed with mental illness. It also provides information and referral services, educational programs, and children's mentoring program as well as wellness and rehabilitation programs.
What is the Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County?
200
The act of pleading or arguing in favor of something, such as a cause, idea, or policy; active support.
What is advocacy?
200
Using a family-centered approach to preserve native language, culture and wisdom while promoting stability, resiliency, and efficacy, this Center provides unique social services primarily to the Guatemalan Maya refugee population.
What is Guatemalan Maya Center?
200
A communication strategy involving two key steps: seeking to understand a speaker's idea, then offering the idea back to the speaker, to confirm the idea has been understood correctly.
What is reflective listening?
200
This community network of nonprofits with 60 member organizations, organizes a holiday gift drive that benefits over 3,500 children in the community.
What is Spirit of Giving Network?
300
This Center acts as an advocate for all older individuals, adults with disabilities and caregivers. It strives to develop a comprehensive community-based system of care with the aging network to provide needs assessment, and direct client care to help older individuals remain independent. Specific programs include: Elder Helpline, SHINE (Serving Health Insurance Needs of Elders), Senior Wellness, Elder Rights, Food Stamps, Medicaid Benefits Assistance, Disaster services and Volunteer programs to include: RSVP, Foster Grandparent Program.
What is Your Aging Resource Center (Area Agency on Aging)?
300
The most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. It is aimed primarily at decreasing the number of uninsured Americans and reducing the overall costs of health care
What is Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly called Obamacare)?
300
This organization that serves the Tamarind Avenue corridor and surrounding area in West Palm Beach, seeks to reverse troubling trends and fulfill its mission by offering programs designed to develop critical life-skills that result in less juvenile crime, fewer teen pregnancies, less substance abuse, less child abuse/domestic violence, and fewer school drop-outs. Among their programs is the Leadership Academy.
What is Urban Youth Impact?
300
The act of working with another or others on a joint project.
What is collaboration?
300
State of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion invloving your feelings, attitudes, motivation and expectations regarding your work or personal life.
What is burnout?
400
This organization is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness by providing innovative, compassionate and effective services to men, women and children in Palm Beach County. Select graduates of the food services apprenticeship program work at the Café Joshua Catering Company. The proceeds of which benefit programs and services.
What is The Lord's Place?
400
A team based health care delivery model led by a physician, P.A., or N.P. that provides comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with the goal of obtaining maximized health outcomes.
What is a medical home?
400
The mission of this organization is to improve the coordination and effectiveness of the health and human service delivery system in the Glades. Their resident clients are all low-income, families and individuals- 90% are Haitian or Hispanic/Latino with limited English, low-literacy and limited access to computers.
What is Glades Initiative?
400
The act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.
What is time management?
400
This Mayan language is spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.
What is Q'anjob'al (also Kanjobal)?
500
This organization provides free legal assistance (to qualified individuals) in civil matters to disadvantaged children, families, elders and individuals in Palm Beach County.
What is Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc.?
500
A Health Care District of Palm Beach County administered program for uninsured residents of Palm Beach County who are not eligible for any other public assistance health coverage program.
What is the Coordinated Care Program?
500
This mission of this organization is to promote self-sufficiency and improve the quality of life of migrant and seasonal farm workers through education, advocacy, and access to services. Their vision is: "Building a better future for those who harvest America".
What is Farmworkers Coordinating Council of Palm Beach County?
500
Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions.
What is resilient?
500
This fruit is eaten in quantities of 12 as a New Year's Eve tradition in many Latin American countries and Hispanic communities in the United States.
What are grapes?