Expanding community resources: a collaborative effort promotes learning

Article Abstract:

The Denver Housing Authority and other organizations collaboratively launched a neighborhood learning center to provide learning opportunities for residents and better the lives of housing residents and their children. The housing authority used 20% of funds it received from an Urban Revitalization Demonstration grant for the development of the Horace Mann Neighborhood Center. The budget was used for computers and a program coordinator. Financial contributions were also made by the Colorado Dept of Local Affairs Community Partnership Office and the Mile High United Way. The Horace Mann Middle School offered its facility and supplied a social worker and staffers. For its part, the Latin American Research and Service Agency conducted a needs assessment to determine what courses should be offered. The success of the program demonstrates the importance of cooperation.

Management, Case studies, Social policy, Community development, Educational facilities, Denver, Colorado, Community schools, Classroom learning centers

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''He didn't go in doing a skydive'': Sustaining the illusion of control in an edgework activity

Article Abstract:

The ways in which skydivers construct and maintain the 'illusion' that they can exercise control as they negotiate their particular edge are examined while the means this sense of control is constructed with and the extent to which it informs how risk recreators approach the edge. In the choices jumpers make about how they participate in the sport and the ways they interpret the experiences of themselves and other jumpers, they defend the position that their hazardous environments are within their control.

General services, Management dynamics, Safety and security measures, Practice, Divers, Divers (Persons), Skydiving

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