by Brandon Hill, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)
This presentation serves as an overview of our group's work with DC Action for Children as part of our HSSJ 1177 course. Our project relied on coalition building as we surveyed, organized, and mapped, out-of-school time programs in DC to allow for greater advocacy during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.
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Wow! That was a huge project - do the research to find providers, build a database, build a map.It's really impressive what you were able to accomplish. Great presentation, very well organized and interesting, and glad you included reflection! Congratulations on being named an exemplar!
Agreed! You all did a lot of work in such a short time. I really like that you all didn't just create a list and map but dug deeper into surveying organizations to learn about their challenges and successes. I look forward to seeing what you all learn from those surveys. Congrats on being an exemplar!