Relationshipbuilding Pans Out

A day of identifying needs and building relationships pans out. As we learn in public health - a good needs assessment is a good first step.

We started out the day at the City Park shelter in New Iberia parish. We saw a number of patients here, but it turns out that all of the school age children were in school (which we expected) and most of the parents were at a job fair (which we didn't expect).

Overall, I think we did good work - we spent some time with the children - even though we couldn't immunize them because their parents were away at the fair. The children were very needy - I think some were worried because first they lost their home, now their parents had disappeared. Children are so concrete, that I'm sure some of them worried that their mom or dad might not return.