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Hernandez got an ear infection which caused him to have to use a hearing aid to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due to this he\u2019s had to learn sign language to help him understand what other people are saying to him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On top of that he has also learned how to read people\u2019s lips as well to help him in conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI worked at a hospital for 16 years and I joined this social work program to continue to help people. Hopefully, disabled people too, like myself,\u201d Hernandez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hernandez knows the problems that people could face when they want to ask for help, and just wants to guide them in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He attends Long Beach currently as a student, and plans to transfer to California State University Northridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n CSU has one of the largest deaf student populations, and top deaf studies programs for a public university,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hernandez plans to continue his social work there, and help students like how he\u2019s doing at LBCC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The club focuses on providing information to students about resources and events on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They aim to help students out who might not know who to talk to, or how to use what\u2019s being provided to support students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This can range from basic needs, financial aid, disability help, tutoring, and on campus events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hernadez was also joined by Shamonique Harris, vice president of the Social Work Club, who also aims to help the students however she can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s a great way to connect to students on a one to one basis. We feel like if students get this info, or see others present it they would be more comfortable with getting help from those departments,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Students can also get info on how to join the club itself. Which is what Emely Morales, a student, had come to the table to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m majoring in social work, and it just makes sense for me to be involved in this so I can give back to this community,\u201d Morales said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The club holds its information sessions every Wednesday at the LAC campus, and Thursday at PCC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The club plans to continue this during the fall semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cloudy weather didn\u2019t stop the Social Work Club as they held an information session on Wednesday May 15. The members greeted everyone who came to their table with a smile. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":15162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,29,1263,142,68,5064,81,5062,5024],"class_list":["post-15158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-lac","tag-lbcc","tag-lifestyle","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-city-college","tag-minor","tag-students","tag-zuri","tag-zuri-minor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Skgy-3Wu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lbccviking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Lifestyle_SocialWorkClub_20241505_ZMinor_1742-e1716243698509.jpg?fit=2268%2C1342&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15167,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158\/revisions\/15167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lbccviking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Lifestyle_SocialWorkClub_20241505_ZMinor_1723-e1716243933857-1024x621.jpg?resize=696%2C422&ssl=1\")