Community Charge

Community Assessment The community that I live in is an urban environment. I live in Rochester, New York, which is considered to be economically poor. My community has a lot of activities for people to be involved in; some activities are the neighborhood watch team, volunteer opportunities at local schools, recreation center and much more. However my community is struggle with funding. An idea or strategy to address the funding situation is to have a fundraiser to raise money and bring awareness

Terros Health is a well-known organization within the behavioral health community. However, many efforts are being made to build community relationships through different outreach efforts. “Community outreach is an effort by individuals within an organization to connect their ideas or practices to the general public” (Riesch, Ngui, Ehlert, Miller, Cronk, Leuthner, Strehlow, Hewitt & Durkin, 2013, p. 255). The goal of the community outreach is to become the provider of choice for both prevention and

effort is advertising and auctioning our honey, and proceeds are being donated in support of SafePlace, a local woman’s shelter. On another outreach front, I developed and facilitated a Pollinator Awareness briefing for the Squaxin Island Tribe’s Community Garden team and communication continues. My second year of the MPA program at The Evergreen State College (TESC), has refined consensus building and collaborative skill. Although, there is no substitute for apprenticeship and participating

invest in each other’s success. These networks or communities of practice take many different forms, such as professional learning communities (PLC), professional learning networks (PLN), mentoring, coaching, social media groups, or social media chats. Even though each community may take many different shapes and forms, they share common characteristics, such as a mutual interest, meaningful interaction, and the investment of time. Although communities of practice require a significant investment of

minutes for the evening. A few awards were given to members of the community. The first was to an Elk Grove Village Police Officer who was being promoted to Sergeant and the others were for the newest member of the K-9 team, for the oldest member who was retiring, and the veterinarian who offers his services for free to the K-9 team at all hours of the day. After the awards were presented, the mayor

Community service provides us an opportunity to apply our learning to real people and situations, and to relate to different diversities across others within our community. Giving your time towards community service can develop the society and backgrounds while acquiring life lessons. It will also help people to further impact the world in the future. By participating in Community Service, it will help expose individuals on what a difference they will be making for our society. Individuals will

and values. However, it is not necessary that their lifestyles and beliefs have to be exactly the same. For example, in relation to religion, it is possible that the people can pray to the individual gods they believe rather than everyone in the community to be part of the same beliefs. It is what they referred to as a social contract. A social contract defines as the understanding of the people in a society that is able to keep up the certain standard for the well being of the whole society. This

How have you become involved in your community? Why have you selected these activities? Why are you interested in making T4T one of the activities to which you dedicate your time? I have been very involved in my local community through the past school year and my young life. Being selected for membership in the National Honor Society, I have been involved in many community service activities and projects with the group. I helped run a local 5k to raise money for the local food bank and childhood

belonging to a community. According to the Oxford dictionary (2010) one definition of community is; all the people who live in a particular area, country etc. when talked about as a group (p.301). The definition of a community however is dependent on those who are defining it. Communities can also be defined as the grouping of individuals who share similar qualities such as religion, race, etc. or who feel a sense of belonging to a specific group. With the many variations of communities it is unsurprising

found for the Putnam thesis that companies that rely on the community that became rich was because they were civic and not the other way around (Kilkenny, Nalbarte, Besser, p231 1999). Grand Canyon University (GCU) has used this concept a lot, but there is a new avenue that GCU must follow to continue its success. GCU’s Canyon Christian Schools Consortium (CCSC) program was built on this great concept of students being involved in the community. Yet this program has devolved because of the basic law