{"id":625,"date":"2018-06-07T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentvoices.bli.lsa.umich.edu\/?p=625"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:36:13","slug":"crank-creek-survival-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/2018\/06\/07\/crank-creek-survival-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Crank Creek Survival Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the Michigan Active Citizen-Alternative Spring Break program through the
\nGinsberg Center here at the University of Michigan, we traveled to Harlan County in Kentucky\u00a0to volunteer with Cranks Creek Survival Center, a local nonprofit. Cranks Creek has worked in\u00a0the area for decades, providing housework services, food, and household supplies to residents in\u00a0need. The founder, Becky Simpson, has passed away, but her husband, Bobby Simpson, has\u00a0continued her work. The organization hosts many student\"\"<\/a> groups in the spring and summer to\u00a0help work on maintenance and deliver supplies. In our time with Cranks Creek, we worked on\u00a0rebuilding the house of a family in the area. We quickly learned the ins and outs of measuring\u00a0tapes, drills, and hammers, and were left to work on the house while other volunteers with the\u00a0organization delivered supplies and ran day-to-day operations. Over the course of the week, we\u00a0observed tangible progress on our work and grew close with the family we were working with. A\u00a0number of us talked to residents about issues such as the status of coal mining, politics, climate\u00a0change, and other things. These experiences opened our eyes to new viewpoints on the world and we are incredibly grateful for the experience. We would like to express our gratitude to the Barger Leadership Institute for their support of our trip. We look forward to continue working\u00a0with the Ginsberg Center and BLI in the near future!<\/p>\n

By Finntan Storer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of the Michigan Active Citizen-Alternative Spring Break program through the Ginsberg Center here at the University of Michigan, we traveled to Harlan County in Kentucky\u00a0to volunteer with Cranks Creek Survival Center, a local nonprofit. Cranks Creek has worked in\u00a0the area for decades, providing housework services, food, and household supplies to residents in\u00a0need. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,166],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-grants","tag-alternative-spring-break","tag-ginsberg-center"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}