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Developing A Mentor Program For Unaccompanied Homeless Youth, Jennifer Greenlee, Amberleia Henson, Lauren Jones, Molly Fraiser Vance, Paula Wilson
Developing A Mentor Program For Unaccompanied Homeless Youth, Jennifer Greenlee, Amberleia Henson, Lauren Jones, Molly Fraiser Vance, Paula Wilson
School of Social Work Community Projects
Our group worked in conjunction with the Executive Director of StandUp For Kids, the Fulton County Schools Homeless Liaison, and the School Social Worker at Frank McClarin High School to develop a school-based mentor program for unaccompanied homeless youth. The purpose was to provide support and encouragement to improve academic performance among youth, with the overall goal of graduation. We developed The Fulton Effect from the ground up, creating its name, mission statement, goals and objectives, program structure, and policies. We recruited mentors to match with students, as well as coordinated and facilitated bi-weekly meetings. We formed partnerships with local …
Keep All The Wells Full: A Metaphor For Understanding Community Partnerships, King Davis
Keep All The Wells Full: A Metaphor For Understanding Community Partnerships, King Davis
Social Work Community Forum 2008
Clean water from the community well gives and sustains life, growth, and commerce. Its absence through waste, monopoly, drought, or scarcity leads to sickness, fear, and death. What then is the cost to the community of scarcity or a drought in leadership, healthy children, opportunity, stable families, safety, homes, literacy, timely justice, quality education, income, health care, jobs, hope, motivation, or wealth. It is the wise and caring community that keeps all of its wells full. King Davis, 2008
Community Caregiving Partnerships Promoting Alliances To Support Care Providers, Nancy P. Kropf
Community Caregiving Partnerships Promoting Alliances To Support Care Providers, Nancy P. Kropf
SW Publications
Although greater numbers of families are providing support to older adults, a lack of comprehensive programming in resource allocation continues to exist at the social policy level. This chapter explores how community care giving partnerships may contribute to a solution.
Community Partnerships: An Innovative Model Of Social Work Education And Practice, Fred Brooks, Mindy R. Wertheimer, Elizabeth L. Beck, James L. Wolk
Community Partnerships: An Innovative Model Of Social Work Education And Practice, Fred Brooks, Mindy R. Wertheimer, Elizabeth L. Beck, James L. Wolk
SW Publications
Community challenges force human service agencies to collaborate in providing services. Such collaborations require practitioners to have skills not found in mainstream social work curricula. This paper explores how a new MSW program evolved through dialog with community leaders and resulted in a curriculum with a sole concentration of community partnerships.