Introduction In the following assignment I will attempt to produce a community profile‚ which will be based on the Hawbush Estate in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands. The Hawbush Estate in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands was built by the Brierley Hill District Council in the 1930’s. I chose to create a community profile on the Hawbush Estate because it is local to where I live and over the last couple of years I have read in the local newspapers about local facilities closing down
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John Puls Skolnick ENC 1101 5/4/2013 Modern Communities The values and characteristics of a healthy community have remained largely unchanged over the years; however‚ with the invention of online communities they have become significantly more impersonal. Accepting people for who they are and showing empathy towards others are indispensable values of a community. The values of a traditional community as outlined in Azar Nafisi’s essay “I believe in empathy” and Sarah Adams’s essay “Be cool
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INTRODUCTION It may be useful to describe community psychology by distinguishing it from other disciplines with which it is closely allied. Community psychology is like clinical psychology and community mental health in its action orientation. That is‚ community psychology aims to promote human welfare. But community psychology arose largely out of dissatisfaction with the clinician’s tendency to locate mental health problems within the individual. Community psychologists are more likely to see threats
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childhood and he has struggled with drugs in the past and has long since been clean for 4 years going on 5. He himself understand the issue of drugs within the community because he has been within the same chain. He has helped the community in several manners and gotten many teens to go to ALATEEN for Teens who have abuse alcohol or drugs or have family members who do that. -Credibility: Grayson opened up to me about his drug issues when he was 13. He had come from a poor background and no one was around
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Sustainable Community: Mission Statement: Our mission is to cultivate sustainable and environmentally friendly practices that mobilize members both across and within communities to transform their lifestyles by promoting a shared “green” consciousness. Our model serves to empower individuals and communities toward creating a sustainable equilibrium between lifestyle and environment. Through individual and community practices‚ our movement is a culture of environmental sustainability that seeks to
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If our community is looking for ways to make improvement we need to start by lowering gas prices. Gas is extremely too high‚ the economy is already bad. Another ways we can improve are community is by lowering college tuition and making are downtown look better. When people go on trips to a different state or city gas prices will be high and very expensive. It’s going to be almost two to three hundred dollars to get there and back. This gas prices is putting more stress on these families that are
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My Soccer Discourse Community Soccer has been a huge part of my life since I was young. Ever since I can remember‚ I’ve joined the school soccer team when I was given the option. Of all the years I was involved in soccer‚ my high school freshman year was the most memorable. Due to my advanced skills‚ I was put in the senior soccer team‚ a feat quite difficult to accomplish for any incoming athlete. That year our school hired a highly experienced coach; he made our school team feel like a real discourse
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and Community. What is my current understanding of belonging and community? Well id have to say belonging is a big thing to teens and most people believe you have to dress a certain way or do something to fit into there apparent "community" but I definitely dont care what others think. Community to me is my friends family and people who mean alot to me. However that isnt the correct meaning‚ community is a bunch of people living in a certain area. I like to think my idea of a community is how
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What is Community Service Community service is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institution. Community Service is when someone performs an action which benefits his or her community. History - Community Service Society was formed in Albany‚ New York during 1939 by the merger of two venerable social service agencies The New York Association of the Condition of the Poor (founded in 1843) and The Charity Organization Society (founded in 1882) What is the
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Community Assessment Daemen College Department of Nursing Holly Weaver‚ Kristen Weaver‚ Dianna O’Brien‚ Jake Lundquist Table of Contents Page I. Background Information on Affiliating Agency………………………………… 5 II. Definition of the Community……………………………………………………. 6 III. Approaches Used to Assess the Community…………………………………….. 6 IV. Description of the Survey……………………………………………………….. 6 V. Demographics……………………………………………………………………. 7 A. Age and Gender………………………………………………………………
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