Program Mission and Community Resources The program for the course project’s titled Time-Out and it will look to provide prevention and solution-based services to African American male high school athletes located in the community of Hampton, Virginia who are at-risk or have engaged in criminal activities, truancy, poor academic performance, or weak support systems. This paper will provide readers the program’s mission statement and rationale as to how the program’s culture will be created to support
modeling positive behaviors for clients through activities outlined in the individual service plan. Pertinent Others The program will have one other pertinent staff, the school liaison. The school liaison will be responsible for building rapport and maintain relationships with the schools, serve as the point of contact for school personnel, and the intake of referrals. Community Resources Using the Community Resource Snapshot exercise, community resources were identified based type of programing
2017 saw a lot of changes to the landscape in Metcalfe County and one little lady from Center even put us on the national news. Here are a few highlights. January saw big changes to the landscape in Edmonton as four of the former Edmonton Elementary School pods were demolished to make way for needed parking space. The remaining buildings are to be repurposed. One building is to be remodeled and used as the central office, while a federal grant is pending to use to renovate one of the lower buildings
emphasis on prevention and intervention while meeting the unique and concrete needs of an individual or family by reinforcing positive behavioral changes. They strive for excellence through accountability and exceptional work ethic. TLC believe that honesty and dedication is the foundation for success of under privileged families. They are passionate about rebuilding the family structure by strengthening, assisting and resolving all community based needs. 2. Board of Directors: Mrs. Tiffany Hassell-Gregory
other hand, was of English descent and was a first born American member of her family. Anna Caroline Maxwell attended a Canadian boarding school for two years, but she mainly studied under her father’s tutelage. Miss Maxwell attended the training school of the Boston City Hospital in 1876 and later graduated with a diploma in 1880. Her attraction to this school was the fame it held in the name of Linda Richards, known to be the first American nurse. Miss Maxwell received her training under Linda
The success of the boycott of the Montgomery buses and the court case Brown vs. Board of education led African Americans into the 1960’s with the belief that non-violent protest and legal action could make a difference. In the beginning of the 1960’s, students held sit in’s at segregated lunch counters throughout the south. February 1st 1960, was the day of the first sit in at a segregated lunch counter. Four seventeen year old freshman at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro- Franklin Mccain
members of caste systems. The capture and sale of Africans for the American slave markets were barbaric and often lethal. Two out of five West African captives died on the march to the Atlantic seacoast where they were sold to European slavers. On board the slave vessels, they were chained below decks in coffin-sized racks. An estimated one-third of these unfortunate individuals died at sea. In America, they were sold at auction to owners, who wanted them primarily as plantation workers. Slave owners
through the civil war. Booker T. worked in coal mines in West Virginia, and then he heard about a school for blacks later known as Hampton institute that was founded by Chapman Armstrong, who later became his mentor. He attended the school and progressed rapidly into a smart young man who had a business mind. Chapman recommended Booker T to build and lead a school in Tuskegee Alabama in 1881. Built off a Hampton model Washington got the job done with the help of his students starting from scratch the made
COMPARISON PAPER I. INTRODUCTION For decades, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was the major African-American spokesman in the eyes of white America. Born a slave in Virginia, Washington was educated at Hampton Institute, Norfolk, Virginia. He began to work at the Tuskegee Institute in 1881 and built it into a center of learning and industrial and agricultural training. A handsome man and a forceful speaker, Washington was skilled at politics. Powerful and influential in both the black and white
proposed (or School-approved) dissertation topic. Synthesize your findings and propose a best-fit method for your dissertation research. Within the context of such a study, identify and analyze the issues associated with each of the following: ethics, sampling, validity, reliability, and bias. This paper will discuss and evaluate two methods commonly found in qualitative research: case study and generic. First the paper will provide a brief reasoning as to why the school-approve topic