Blog Topic # 3

Blog Topic #3: What is the relationship between the citizens and your CP? On what level do they interact? How can citizen participation affect your CP?

Before getting into the blog topic, I just want to give my readers a quick update on my communication with my CP. So I went online and found an email that answers questions about the volunteering process. The next day a site manager named Stephanie Lum emailed me back asking me about my availability and the required training I had to finish before I could volunteer. As I am writing this blog post, I received another email from her about scheduling. Hopefully it all works out, because this volunteer experience is something I want to do.
This is Stephanie Lum's email(<lums@plsinfo.org>). 


The relationship between my CP and the people of the community must be strong. My CP is responsible to ensure a safe environment for children, so my CP must be friendly, responsible, and respectful towards the parents. My CP must have a trusting relationship, because if the trust is lost the people will not place their children in this program. The most important relationship is the kids and my CP. She is the one ensuring they are satisfied.

My CP has a great level of interaction. This program is the center of helping kids and everything about this program involves volunteers to be hands on. My CP must be interacting with the children and the San Bruno county council. There must be great communication between the council and the CP. If the parents are not satisfied with the homework center or the people of the city believe that the money spent on the program is not worth, then citizen participation is a huge affect on my CP and the program. At elections, budget cuts could affect the homework center hours, which would allow students less time. Citizen participation created this program and it could be destroyed with the participation too.