Development Of An Educational Program of Christian Formation For The Baptist Church of Quintana, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico To Deal With The Racial and Ethnic Prejudice In The Congregation and The Local Community

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
David CASILLAS GALARZA
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Christian Formation ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Ethnic Prejudice

Urban Street Faith

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kymberly N. Pinder
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
The One ◽  
Biblical Figures ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines contemporary black public art in Chicago, including Bernard Williams's black biblical figures in the apse of Saint Edmund's Episcopal Church. As a principal artist in the Chicago Public Art Group (CPAG), Williams has been the lead restorer for most of murals by William Walker. The Saint Edmund's committee directed the content of Williams's mural at the church in relation to the newly installed stained glass program of important black heroes. Father Richard Tolliver considered murals and stained glass an integral part of his revitalization of Saint Edmund's. Williams also helped restore Frederick D. Jones's mural at the First Church of Deliverance (FCOD) and created a number of local community murals. The chapter concludes with a discussion of Damon Lamar Reed's mural ministry consisting of murals, graffiti, rap music, and T-shirts. Like the conflations of the black Christ with the pastor at Pilgrim Baptist Church and FCOD, Reed's work merges the painted image of Jesus with that of a real black body, the one within the T-shirt.

scholarly journals APPLIED GERONTOLOGY: HOW STUDENTS ADDRESS LONELINESS IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S241-S241
Author(s):  
Eric Schoenmakers
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The University

Abstract Fontys University of Applied Sciences offers an Undergraduate program in Applied Gerontology. Full-time and part-time students are trained in gerontology and in applying this knowledge in developing and implementing products and services in order to improve quality of life of older adults. In our vision, students learn in practice. Therefore, the educational program largely consists of authentic projects for real organizations in the local community. In one of these ongoing projects, students research loneliness in the local community. A network of organizations, which communicates intensively with the University, is involved. For these organizations, students study how clients and employee’s think about (coping with) loneliness, write testimonials about interventions, and advise in improving the services of organizations. For students, these kind of projects offer opportunities to learn in practice. For the community, students’ involvement means extra manpower to further develop services and society as a whole.

Parkinson Disease Bootcamp: An Education Program for Individuals With Parkinson Disease and Their Families

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 654-657
Author(s):  
Sabiha Parveen
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Parkinson Disease ◽  
Support System ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Education ◽  
Social Support System

Purpose A strong social support system for individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) and their families often include awareness of existing resources, involvement in the community, and access to supportive relationships. Community-based education programs are one such avenue for building a strong social support system and improving the quality of life of people with PD and their family members. This viewpoint article presents the conceptualization and efficacy of a 3-day multidisciplinary educational program for individuals with PD and their families. Method A total of 52 people attended the event, including individuals with PD and their family members. The 3-day event included presentations by different health care professionals and activities aimed to increase the knowledge of individuals with PD and their families regarding possible effects of PD and available resources within the local community. Results A vast majority of participants shared extremely positive responses and expressed a strong interest in attending similar events in the future. Conclusion The success of the educational program led to new partnerships and the creation of community-based programs for individuals with PD and their families.

scholarly journals Water is life, but the colony is a necropolis: Environmental terrains of struggle in Puerto Rico

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Lloréns ◽  
Maritza Stanchich
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Environmental Resistance ◽  
History Of

The catastrophic conditions after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, homeland to the second largest US Latinx group, also result from a long history of colonial exploitation exacerbated by economic downturn, debt crisis, and federally imposed austerity. US policies affecting agriculture and attracting contaminating industries set the groundwork for extreme environmental degradation, which in turn has long motivated local community activism, coalition-building, and de-colonial praxis. The authors illustrate that in Puerto Rico, environmental resistance has been a vanguard terrain of struggle against the deepening insertion of multinationals and continued degradation. Culminating with a glimpse of how the very basics needed for survival—such as water—have been sacrificed to the logics of capital extraction, this essay points to the urgency of making an environmental justice perspective of central concern to US Latinx Studies.

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