Ernie is a community organizer, founded the Brandon Blair Youth Center which he directs and has served on the boards of the Hamilton County Community Action Agency and the S. Fairmount Community Council where he lives. He is a former community organizer and literacy teacher. We will start with a paired interview format to surface many of the class and race themes mentioned above. Secondly we'll move into small groups to develop an organizing process for finding and training researchers from community based organizations who can work effectively with researchers from outside the community. We'll finish with discussion on key questions in building cross class research partnerships.
Juvenile violence flourishes around certain types of businesses and blocks.
Older individuals are involved in co-offending behavior with juveniles. How communication serves as a barrier to effective partnerships. The WA Welfare Reform Coalition, made up of over 75 diverse CBO's, was created in 1996 as a community driven response to address the devolution of social welfare policy. The Reality Check project is a grassroots effort of Coalition members to monitor the impacts of welfare reform. The project relies on diverse participants such as direct service agencies, volunteers, low-income participants, activist groups, academics, health organizations, funders, the media and includes geographic and ethnic diversity.