I walked into work this past Friday to find a surprise. It turned out there was an event taking place that night that I had no idea about. I found out about it in my first staff meeting (that’s right getting official) as the person in charge of DHDC said “So as I’m sure you all know … is […]
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Wellllllll, as you all know by now (because you read all my post) our first community meeting is this Friday! We have been preparing for the meeting a lot and one of our main methods of getting the word out was door to door. Being a member of the boy scouts I have done many
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On Friday I attended a Detroit City Council candidate forum with my sponsor and a few of our members. The candidate forum was out at w.8 mile and telegraph, so I was pretty excited to get to see some other parts of Detroit. We were at the candidate forum to present on our Good Food
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Note: This was originally written on July 3rd Today went by so quickly, probably because I didn’t really do any research J My supervisor has wanted to revamp these guides that help citizens report suspicious activity. The handouts mention things both obvious (ex. sex or color of car) and not so obvious (ex. accent or
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Attention: I advise everyone to come and support the Eastside Farmers Market on Mac and Alter Road. It is a phenomenal market where you can buy a multitude of Michigan grown and produced goods. Everything from fruits and vegetables to backed goods and all natural lemonade (yum). So come on out an support Michigan growers/producers.
A huge part of my research this summer revolves around surveys. One of the two surveys we use is a survey of local food resources, which is the scientific term for a grocery store. Just before the holiday, I went with a member of the community, a social worker named Jackie (who received her master’s
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On the wonderful day of July 7th, I turned the BIG 1 – 9 !! My father wanted to have a barbeque with my close friends, but we didn’t plan it. However, it happened without planning. Two of my close friends were in Detroit. My friend Chelsea had spent the weekend with me and my
On Thursday, I had an observation at the Citgo by Sinai Grace. I was suppose to do my obseravtion from 10:00 – 5:00. I was a little disappointed because at the Green Garage, our office, we were having live music, drinks, and sweet potato waffles from 4-6. However, I did not complete my observation because of differences. So,
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This summer has undeniably been a time for growth/learning for me on how to conduct community-based research. I learned a lot about working with other organizations and syncing research needs (it can be difficult to balance the mutual benefit of sharing data between organizations with individual needs of the researcher/the organization they represent). I learned
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This week at FocusHOPE has been a lot of getting back to the grind of work! I finally did learn about my second project though. I will be helping out with a Focus group on how to improve pedestrian safety along a stretch of davison. Since they are trying to keep the event as laid
