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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Mutual aid"”.
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A mutual aid group programme for emergency personnel
… aim of the study was to develop and evaluate a mutual aid group programme in order to prevent symptoms of trauma, with special reference to anxiety and depression, and promote psychological well-being in emergency personnel. Emergency personnel are exposed to traumatic events during the line of …
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Neighborhood Mutual Aid Groups and Spaces of Deviant Care
… orders. Many of these COVID19 neighborhood mutual aid groups were located in metropolitan areas experiencing simultaneous processes of gentrification, racial banishment, and displacement. The presence of these groups, especially those comprised mainly of white, young, gentrifiers challenged …
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Psychological empowerment of child-headed families through a mutual-aid group
Children who grow up in child-headed families often face numerous challenges such as bereavement, discrimination and financial burdens. This study in particular was concerned with the psychological empowerment of child-headed families as there is an increasing number of child-headed homes in black …
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Collective Care for Carceral Transformation: Investigating Mutual Aid's Role in Building Decarceral Futures
… how grassroots anti-carceral movements utilize mutual aid to support communities and advance abolitionist praxis. Drawing upon phenomenological interviews conducted with thirteen participants who have either provided or received mutual aid within grassroots organizations, it examines the …
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We Work, We Eat Together: Anti-authoritarian Mutual Aid Politics in New York City, 2004-2013
… response to these changes: anti-authoritarian mutual aid groups that blend Do-It-Yourself (DIY) culture with direct action politics. These are projects where activists attempt to build strong communities of resistance by organizing collective forms of social reproduction. I find that these …
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'For the Glorious Privilege of Being Independent': Friendly Societies and Mutual Aid in Great Britain, 1870--1910
"The friendly society movement died a slow death. The movement's leaders were ill-prepared to defend their principles when the 1908 Old Age Pensions Act and 1911 National Insurance Act circumscribed their role. In 1946, they found themselves completely unable to counter the Attlee government's plan …
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The Role of Care Practices, Mutual Aid, and Racial Formation in Black Newcomer Practitioners’ Lived Experience Within Organizations: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry
… gave and received care, support, and mutual aid in their personal and professional lives.</p> <p>Seventeen participants who identified as Black or part of the African diaspora, worked with new arrivals or within the newcomer social service sector as direct service providers, and were …
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Co-Governing Care in Astoria, Queens: The Role and Responsibility of the City in Supporting Community-Led Solidarity Networks
… as unprecedented numbers of people mobilized mutual aid eff orts to help their neighbors survive. While many mutual aid groups have since disbanded or experienced burnout, others have sustained the work, helping to establish alternative infrastructures of collective care. Taking Astoria, …
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Labor and social barter in an Appalachian community: Carroll County, Virginia, 1880s-1930s
… also helped each other through the practice of mutual aid. When crops needed harvesting, neighboring farmers pitched in to help. Younger residents took care of and housed their elderly kin. These practices of mutual aid did not cease to exist with the arrival of industrialization. Sometimes, new …
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Pengaruh budaya kekeluargaan terhadap kinerja karyawan di BMT Maslahah Sidogiri Pasuruan
… by using indicators a sense of kinship and mutual aid. So that the background of research was conducted under the title “Effect Family Culture to Employee Performance in BMT Maslahah Sidogiri Pasuruan” This research is quantitative research using explanatory research method, using multiple …
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The Ecotonal Nature of Community Food Work: A Case Study of Trauma-Informed Care and Agential Change Space
… food work organization that is engaged in mutual aid and social-ecological activism embodies trauma-informed care; engenders an agential change space; and grapples with the aspirations and tensions of being an organization seeking to ameliorate the effects of anthropogenic trauma and expand …
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Raised In A Shockwave
… novel centering around a young girl who joins a mutual aid organization focused on creating a network of community and support for a newly-birthed group of superhumans. The themes of the book include the importance of forming bonds across marginalized communities, the creation of the self as a …
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A history of California teacher retirement laws
… retirement history. These are mainly the area of mutual aid societies, early retirement legislation in the United States, early California history of teacher retirement, the progress of California teacher retirement legislations from 1895 through the legislative section of 1957, and the attitudes …
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Juggling Demands and Resources: Low Wage Women Making Sense of Bill-Paying Hardships
… commitments to care for their households, (2) mutual aid to ease their sense of isolation; and (3) social and economic policies to enhance their hope for opportunities to increase assets over time.</p>
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Restoration, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Liberty at Last in Clarke County, Virginia, 1865-1879
… institutions, like churches, schools, and mutual aid societies. The restoration of white supremacy encountered stiff black resistance, but elite whites eventually consolidated their power. Although it would be another century before African Americans could freely, and without the fear of …
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Tools for Togetherness: Building Social Networks through Public Tool-making
… foster a society that values care, support, and mutual aid. By developing, documenting, and disseminating self-organized public tools—including flyers, posters, and installations that facilitate relationship-building—this work aims to challenge the prevailing alienation by demonstrating the …
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The Influences Of System Affiliation, Size, And Location On Bioterrorism Preparedness Among Florida Hospitals
… disconnect between plans and communications of said plans still exists along with many deficiencies still needing to be corrected. Study limitations are discussed and important policy implications are presented. Suggestions for improving preparedness levels and implementing new policies include: …
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A study of organisations and their responses to the social needs of Mbekweni
… were found to be orientated towards mutual-aid and self-help model whilst the Human Service organisations were orientated towards the service model. This study will also highlight the complex nature of Mbekweni which has been approached by different organisations delivering social …
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Punk Identification With Middle-Class Values
… in. Several participants are part of mutual aid organizations that are organized in non-hierarchical manners adhering to punks' anti-establishment nature and that directly tackle perceived systemic issues in American society through community building. However, punk in Reno has a blind …
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