Independent Component 1

Literal:
A) I Kendall Delgado, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
B) I had a total of two mentors for my independent component, Janice Chow from the American Cancer Society office in Pasadena (213-507-7169). And Brenda Godbold  (661-327-7827) at the office in Bakersfield.
C) hours
D) Throughout working in these two offices as a legislative ambassador, my job has been promoting awareness. While being an ambassador is a long process that I am still in the beginnings of, I was able to help promote awareness through the organization of events. Though at times it seemed tedious it really did help me to see how much work goes into these events. The organization mainly consisted of helping out the office secretaries, making copies, going to the bank, wrapping gifts, setting up booths etc.
Interpretive:

These pictures are clips of my email sent to further me into the process of an ambassador. The photo of the booth above is a booth I set up at a women's health convention in Pasadena.

Applied:

Becoming a legislative ambassador has really helped me with my foundation because it places me in the spot of the people who are there to help. The people I work with go into this because they want to help and promote awareness. They could have done anything with their lives but they chose this. Many people I work with are volunteers as well. So it really helped me to see that while people diagnosed with cancer are going through a hardship there are plenty of others there to help them deal with this process. This also has really helped me to see and understand the awareness aspect of cancer, doing everything there is possible to prevent it from occurring.

With my topic being breast cancer and attending the women's health it helped me to look at other aspects of other adult women's lives. Calling people and asking them to become involved really showed me as well how many people are willing to help.

I hope that as I continue the process I will be one of the ambassadors picked to attend a meeting at the capitol and promote cancer awareness bills to our legislators.

Rough Draft 30 min presentation

30 min rough draft

Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to cope with having cancer?
2. After spending so much time with people who have been diagnosed with cancer, what books would you recommend to them?
3. What about the families and friends of the diagnosed? What types of coping methods would you recommend to them?
4. What do you look for in a person that would make you recommend other types of methods to them?
5. How has being around people going through such a hard point in their life effected you?
6. What methods of coping could you recommend to those who are younger?
7. Why would you recommend those?
8. Do you feel that it is important for a person diagnosed to take care of themselves and act as though the disease does not exist? Or they should work with it? Why or why not.
9. To you, does coping with anything difficult in life, not just cancer, take root in taking care of
   themselves as an individual first? Why?
10.  If you could say anything to someone who has been newly diagnosed and has lost hope, what would it be?

Mentorship 10 hours Check

1. I am currently a registered volunteer at both San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland, and a volunteer at the American Cancer Society with my office being the one in Passadena
2. For San Antonio my contact (although she is not my mentor, she keeps track of the volunteer hours) would be Kim Voll ers. You can reach her at (909) 985-2811 or by emailing her (which is preferred)kvollers@sach.org. My contact for the American Cancer Society is Janice.Chow-Ng@cancer.org or  213.427.7292 | Mobile: 213.507.7169
3. At San Antonio I have a total of 42.5 hours and with the American Cancer Society I have 7. Which comes to a total of 49.5
4. The 10 hours of service I did over the summer consisted of helping patients throughout the hospital find there way around. I also helped out visitors and took them to see their relatives as well as check them into the hospital system.