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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"community outreach"”.
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Proactive Community Outreach and Support Team
… in London, Ontario co-developed the Community Outreach and Support Team (COAST). This program was designed to be health care led and police supported and involves a police officer and a mental health professional responding to calls together. We conducted three studies aimed at …
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Addressing Barriers to Preventive Healthcare Access Through Community Outreach in Underserved Populations
… <p>This program evaluation report examined a community-based initiative that utilized a mobile health unit to improve access to preventive healthcare in underserved areas of Muscogee County, Georgia. The mobile unit delivered health screenings, education, and referrals, while culturally and …
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ADDRESSING DIABETES IN THE UNDERSERVED POPULATION USING A COMMUNITY OUTREACH MOBILE UNIT APPROACH
… the delivery of healthcare with a focus on the community's health disparities and inadequate access to quality healthcare. Diabetes is one of the top ten causes of death according to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2020). Many underserved populations in the U.S. including the city of …
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Increasing breast cancer self-awareness and screening in a vulnerable population through faith-based community outreach
… among at-risk women in a midwestern Michigan community attending faith-based organizations. The project was implemented at three different faith-based communities, including a community soup kitchen serving homeless people and two predominantly African American churches. An educational …
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The Challenges for a Closed-to-the-Public Animal Sanctuary: Prioritizing animal welfare while engaging in educational community outreach
… sanctuary can engage in educational outreach without compromising the welfare of the residents. I employed a combination of semi-structured interviews of sanctuary personnel, ethnographic participant-observation as a volunteer caregiver, and an online survey offered to the local …
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Effects of a community outreach post-permanency program on behavior problems and placement stability of youth in adoptive/guardianship arrangements
… Linkage (APAL) program. The APAL program is a community outreach post-permanency service provided to families with older children who were adopted or taken into guardianship. The program provides a needs assessment and referral and informational services, which aim to address service needs and …
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Lake Wateree - Getting Out of the Lake and Into the Watershed: A Study of Volunteer Monitoring Efforts, Water Quality, and Community Outreach
… A unifying concept for the entire project was community outreach and the incorporation of volunteer and stakeholder input.</p> <p>With respect to the issue of turbidity in Big Wateree Creek, a number of stream sites were sampled over a six month period. Following analysis of the turbidity data …
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The City of Morro Bay, California Sign Ordinance Update and Tourism-Oriented Directional Sign Plan
… thought a process involving extensive research, community outreach, and detailed discussions among City of Morro Bay staff.</p> <p><strong>The Sign Ordinance</strong></p> <p>It was discovered that signs are important to business owners and residents due to their effect on both economic and …
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The Houston Shakespeare Festival: A Strategic Plan
… to achieve this vision. By pursuing increased community outreach, expanded productions, and broader collaboration with the corporate sector and theatre community in Houston, HSF can broaden its impact on both the University and the City of Houston. By expanding the marketing and development …
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The symbolic expression of a boy's masculinity through sandplay therapy
… A case study, which originated from a community outreach project, of a young black male participant from a resource constrained community is briefly described. The participant engaged with sandtray over a once a week sessions, over a 6 week period, lasting approximately one and a half …
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Capoeira and Hip Hop in North East Brazil: Resistance to Inequality
… and Hip Hop by Afro-Indigenous youth and community members in NorthEast Brazil ruptures their historically unequal status and enacts collective social change. My thesis is grounded on two programs I co-founded, “Capoeira for Street Kids” (Canada and Brazil) and “Hip Hop Rescues Kids” …
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The motor development of HIV positive and HIV negative children aged three to six years, residing in institutions and in foster care
… from four institutions in Cape Town and from community outreach programmes supporting foster parents. Six months later 37 children were tested.
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UNICEF Kid Power: Empowering Kids to Get Active and Save Lives
… schools in the area, coordination of local community outreach events, support to seek and secure funding for the program, collaboration with colleagues across the U.S., and marketing the program to the public. This paper also notes how the fieldwork project achieved several Masters of Public …
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The Promise of School Choice: Local School Control Efforts to Close the Achievement Gap in the Federal Context of Accountability
… primarily on the backs of the African American community. This research concluded that the implementation and development of school choice must include: long-term planning, training, and professional development opportunities for teachers and building administrators, a greater attempt to build …
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Energy Efficiency In San Marcos, Texas: Is Our Rebate Program Up to Code?
… explores and develops potential improvements to community outreach, education, as well as the rebate program itself, with a prospective goal of reducing the cumulative energy use of San Marcos homes by 1% within a 5-year period.
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The Need for Arts Education and Alternative Assessment in Light of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
… academic and social achievement are identified. Community Outreach programs: Chicago Arts Partnership in Education (CAPE),Young Audiences of Indiana, the Pennsylvania Ballet show positive arts influence outside of the traditional classroom setting. Research by James S. Catterall, J. Burton, R. …
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Establishing a Translational Research Center in California's San Joaquin Valley: Principles, Partnerships, and Initial Steps
… collaborative, multidisciplinary research with a community emphasis in order to rapidly develop, test, and disseminate new ways to improve health. To address the numerous health disparities present in the San Joaquin Valley, HSRI began working toward the development of a regional Translational …
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Moving beyond diversity by numbers : new approaches to fostering healthy intercultural climates in human services organizations supporting people with disabilities
… needs; and the development of a comprehensive community outreach program.</p>
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