Category: Portofolio

Work Force Readiness Project Overview

The Waco Family Abuse Center exists to eliminate domestic violence in Central Texas by sheltering victims of domestic violence and preventing abuse from occurring through intervention and education. Many victims that seek shelter are traumatized, suffer from low self- esteem, and have limited access to resources. With the implementation of safety, counseling, and supportive services, survivors of domestic violence experience healing and empowerment. With access to education and community awareness, the intergenerational cycle of violence can be interrupted and reduce the social acceptance of domestic violence. The workforce readiness program that I have crafted serves to provide an empowering opportunity for clients at the Family Abuse Center. This project will be implemented as a series of workshops that are free to all clients at the shelter and will include courses that will teach clients how to build a professional resume, dress in professional attire, prepare for future interviews, and do career assessments that can help position them where they want to be. Through this program, the FAC has the potential to affect real and positive change on their clients and furthermore the community that it serves. Preparing clients to become employable is the goal of this project, if it permitted within FAC guidelines I would like to collect data to evaluate how many clients were able to obtain employment utilizing the skills they gained in the workshops.


Work Force Readiness Goals and Objectives

Goals and Objectives

Assess Needs, Resources, and Capacity for Health Education/Promotion

Goal: Assess the Family Abuse Centers’ capacity for aiding their clients in rejoining the workforce.

Objective 1.2: Meet with the workforce readiness coordinator to find out more information about clients’ needs.

Plan Health Education/Promotion

Goal: Plan to create and finish a workforce readiness curriculum and other necessary training materials in March. Follow up with advertising the job training sessions.

Objective 1: Consult the Baylor University Career Center on how they prepare students to transition to the professional world and how I can apply those same skills and processes to my job training sessions.

Objective 1.2: By the end of my internship, I will help the Family Abuse Center identify potential volunteers to help continue teaching the course in my absence.

Implement Health Education/Promotion

Goal: Start workforce readiness sessions April 1st and host sessions every other week.

Objective 1: At the end of the first session, survey participants to evaluate what can be improved or changed for the next session.

Administer and Manage Health Education/Promotion

Goal: Host 6 workforce readiness sessions by May 6th.

Objective 1.3: By the end of my internship I will survey all the FAC clients that participated to collect feedback on their experience of the program and whether they were able to gain employment at the completion of the program.

Volunteer Experience

I am a member of the Multicultural Association of Pre-Health Students, a student-run organization at Baylor University that is committed to promoting diversity in the healthcare field as well as facilitating service and learning opportunities to prepare its members to provide for the healthcare needs of individuals from varying backgrounds, cultures, and socioeconomic levels.

Acres of Smiles Dentistry

A non-profit organization that helps families in underserved communities attain needed dental treatments and oral hygiene education.

Talitha Koum Institute

Talitha Koum is to improve outcomes for at-risk children and their families from the Kate Ross government housing neighborhood of South Waco through an intensive care program.

Mission Waco

It provides programs that empower the poor and marginalized. Mobilize middle-class Americans to become more compassionately involved among the poor.

Volunteer Work

I have volunteered with several organizations over the years.

  • The American Red Cross
  • Salvation Army
  • Friends For Life
  • English as a Second Language
  • The Waco Humane Society
  • Acres of Smiles Dental

My Health Philosophy

Afia Williams  

Health Philosophy 

My Philosophy of Health  

My philosophy of health is based on the idea that health something that cannot be attached to a dollar value. Health is variable in each individual’s life and this is because health does not just encompass one aspect of our lives. It encompasses almost every major aspect of our lives ranging from where we work and what we do, our social relationships and our education level. There is always a risk that an aspect of our health could be compromised. That is why health promotion and health education is so important. Health is integral to human satisfaction and prosperity. It likewise is an essential commitment to economic growth, as healthy populations live longer, they will be more beneficial to society.  

The education level of a society is very important because an uninformed population can cause more harm than good to itself. Health promotion can influence healthcare policies but it can also trickle down to neighborhoods and communities. There are things that individuals can do to aid themselves in maintaining good health such as drinking water daily, reducing their intake of unhealthy foods and exercising for at least half an hour to reduce stress and get adequate amounts of sleep. This is where I feel the community and family aspect come into play. Living in an environment where healthy living is heavily promoted can make these simple things even easier and much more routine. Opposed to an environment where healthy activities are not as actively encouraged. Economics also plays a direct role in the health and well-being of an individual. While society promotes healthy eating it, the big food production companies do not make this an easy task for the poorer people in society. Which is a major issue for society, if agencies made healthy food more accessible to people from lower income homes the society as a whole could be made better.  

Health and wellbeing is the search for improved personal satisfaction, self-improvement, and potential through constructive life practices and states of mind. When we assume liability for our own wellbeing and prosperity, we can enhance our well-being every day.