The Reflective ePortfolio Paper is based on information from Chapter 12 in your
textbook and the work you have accumulated this semester in your ePortfolio. Your
ePortfolio will be an accumulation of your discussions, and weekly postings
associated with each chapter. In Ritter, Graham, (2017), Multicultural Health, 2nd Ed,
Chapter 12, Nonethnic Cultures, specifically deals with the Cultures of Disability. Your
assignment is to use the information you have already learned from this course, and
construct a paper providing a solution to this culture’s dilemma. Considerations for
Health Promotion Planning for People with Disabilities’ (p. 276) section of the textbook
will provide you with the dilemma. Here are some additional information guidelines for
writing your reflective paper.
1. Read both chapter 12 and 13 before you start writing your paper.
2. Identify two (2) different cultures (groups) from the information in chapter 12. One group
should be from the information about the LGBT community, and the other should be from
the information about persons with disabilities. Identify the specific issues (problems) in
each culture faces. You will not have the same identical problems in both cultures.
However, there may be some issues both cultures face that are similar, but each culture
(group) will also have separate issues that are also very important to them.
3. These are two separate groups with half the paper (4 pages) dedicated to each group
separately.
4. Then, based on the problems each group faces with discrimination, and/or the isolation,
lack of resources, and a lack of accessible opportunities, you should develop an idea to
help provide them with better access into the healthcare system. Your idea for each of
these groups, if implemented, could/should/would make a significant difference in their
access to healthcare.
5. Then your challenge is to set up an initiative (plan/program) to combat the problems
you’ve identified in each of these two cultures. Remember these are things you would do!
Do not depend solely on any other group, government or private organization, or agency
to help you in this project. This is what you, and anyone you can convince to help you,
could/would do to help individuals within these two groups. Every idea starts small; you
have to first identify how you could identify, reach, and engage these individuals in a
dialog. Then how would you develop a program to assist them, and finally how would
you administer this program. This should be personal for you, it will require you desire
to help these individuals within both of these cultures, and that you to find reliable
reasonable resources to use as part of your program. Each of the two cultures is

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addressed separately (4 pages each); so you will have two completely different groups,
problems they face, goals for addressing those problems, your idea to facilitate change,
and how you will acquire resources, and implement those goals.
6. Using the information in Chapter 13, (pg. 292) set up you goals. Then develop each
goal, by providing information on how these goals can be achieved / reached.
Remember, throughout this text is information on how similar situations have been
addressed. You may also use a reliable source of information such as a professional
website, journals, or another text. Be sure you use correctly formatted citations and
references. This is done to provide the readers with enough information they will be able
locate where you got your information, and to prevent you plagiarizing another author’s
work.