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Youth Organizing: Capacity Building and Organizational Learning
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Wright, Dana E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Community change approaches have increasingly involved participatory practices in which community members directly impacted by an issue participate in implementing change efforts. However, community participation as a practice and approach does not always include youth participation. Within the field of youth organizing, young people are…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Citizen Participation, Activism, Capacity Building
Expanding Opportunities for FFA Chapter Recognition: A Model for Community Needs Assessment.
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Israel, Glenn D.; Hoover, Tracy S. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 1996
A strategy that integrates community service learning with community needs assessment keeps costs low and local involvement high. An example using agriculture students shows how it provides opportunities for experiential learning and leadership in community development. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Community Development, Community Needs, Community Problems
North American Indian Alliance Mental Health Needs Assessment Report.
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Barron, Lloyd; Oge, Linda L.; Markovich, Joseph – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 1999
Surveys of 30 mental health service providers and 74 American Indian consumers of such services in Butte, Montana, examined mental health services offered for adults and children, service use by American Indians, referral practices, providers' and consumers' perceptions of the mental health needs of American Indians, and consumers' interest in…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Community Problems, Community Services, Educational Needs
Denver American Indian Mental Health Needs Survey.
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King, Jeff – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 1999
A survey of 374 Denver American Indians, mostly unemployed and low-income, examined substance abuse, psychological problems, and personal trauma for self and household; Native community mental health problems (including youth problems); counselor preferences; opinions about school testing of American Indian children; and Native community needs for…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Community Problems, Community Services, Help Seeking
Un Llamado a la Accion III: 1989/90 Agenda Legislativa (A Call to Action III: 1989/90 Legislative Agenda).
Association of Puerto Rican Executive Directors, New York, NY. – 1989
This Spanish-language publication of the Association of Puerto Rican Executive Directors (APRED) presents recommendations for action by the New York State legislature to improve opportunities and services for the Puerto Rican and Latino community. The agenda for legislative action calls for the integration to the community in the social, economic,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Needs, Community Problems, Economically Disadvantaged
A Call To Action III: 1989/90 Legislative Agenda.
Association of Puerto Rican Executive Directors, New York, NY. – 1989
This publication of the Association of Puerto Rican Executive Directors (APRED) presents recommendations for action by the New York State legislature to improve opportunities and services for the Puerto Rican and Latino community. The agenda for legislative action, produced by the APRED Legislative Task Force, calls for the integration of the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Needs, Community Problems, Economically Disadvantaged
Education and Community Renewal: Assessment of Need in Distressed Communities.
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1987
This report describes a preliminary methodology by which distressed communities may be identified using school districts as the basic unit for the presentation of data. Distress consists of a concentration of the following types of need: (1) economic; (2) social; and (3) educational. Distress was measured by an index that determined a district's…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Needs, Community Problems, Community Study