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    The community we decided to look at is in the north Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. The area we decided to focus on the surrounding blocks around the St. John’s Recreation center. The blocks we examine are from Utica Avenue & Albany Avenue and Park Place & Bergen Street. Our team decided to use this community due to most of the group members live and/or are familiar with this community. Being familiar with how the community used to have high crime rates, drug infested that housed many low income

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    University and the We Love Kennedy Youth Center should continue to in their attempts to engage the community. They should use social networks through the public school system, Parent Teacher Association, religious organizations, community businesses, etc. They should also use Hempstead University to spread the word among professionals and students. Creating a larger awareness in the greater community can help get the word out in other ways; this may also recruit more people to help with the program

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    deception and intrigue. Communities are developed to uncloak the clutter of empty phrases. A community is a social unit of any size that shares common values. In every community, there are conditions present that affect the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness. Communities are a major determinant of an individual’s attitude, characters and interpersonal relationships. This paper seeks to discuss my community which is Rosslyn community, my role in the community and the challenges

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    Culture and Diversity in Building Communities o An inclusive community: ♣ Does everything that it can to respect all its citizens, gives them full access to resources, and promotes equal treatment and opportunity. ♣ Works to eliminate all forms of discrimination. ♣ Engages all its citizens in decision-making processes that affect their lives. ♣ Values diversity. ♣ Responds quickly to racist and other discriminating incidents. o Why is building an inclusive community important? ♣ Acts of exclusion and

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    This project proposal will look at a specific community and identify a specific need within the area and aim to offer a solution through an action plan. It will refer back to the previously conducted community profile to assist with the project proposal. The community profile will provide vital information for the community and identify the key areas of need within the area. It will look at the definition of community and social capital and see how they link. It will look at the importance of social

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    The reshaping of countries in the latter half of the twentieth century due to nationalist endeavours has resulted in a commonality across a wider spectrum. The wider spectrum is a globalised community that is able to interact and therefore increase the ‘market’ (if you like) of foreign fighters. Urri defines globalisation as the ‘increased density of international and global interactions, compared with such interactions at the local or national level’. The CIAs forecast in 2000 predicted some of

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    understand his meaning of community. By examining these images one is able to get a better understanding of the schooling and community experiences of young people. The relationship between education and community was explored in detail. Nirav explains what a community entails. A community is a wide grouping of people located within certain boundaries, related to each other by socio-economic and civic activities which produces oneness sufficient to develop a recognizable identity as a group (Nirav).Alam

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    recruiter for the college. Eureka College generates its revenue from tuition. Every recruiter of the college is an important one because that’s how Eureka College operates. I am from a metropolitan city, it took a while for me to adapt to a different community and a lot of that has to do with the data that I found in researching Eureka, IL. In “Eureka Illinois $54, 442,” (U.S. Census Bureau, n.d.) is the average household income, I believe that the average household income is not very high in Eureka Illinois

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    people who go through it, and those who are in the group are able to feel comfort in knowing they have multiple individuals who can grasp a sense of what they are going through and being in the group makes an individual feel as though they have a community of support.

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    Development & Community Engagement Department Introduction Planning, Development & Community Engagement is one of the departments at Kin On Health Care Center, which is a nonprofit organization to provide health care support to adult and senior residents in the greater Seattle Asian community. This organization offers a comprehensive range of social and health services sensitive to the seniors’ cultural and dietary needs. During the fall of 2016, Planning, Development & Community Engagement Department

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