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Through education programs, community engagement, and city-wide collaboration, this project strives to create opportunities that support the remedial efforts at the waterfront via agencies (ex: BARC), community groups, and public volunteers. Hamilton residents now have the opportunity to shape the future of the West Harbour community by participating in community engagement events such as: “A West Harbour Engagement Planning Stakeholder Workshop”…

Low Stakes Writing Two Professional Community Development Roles promotes social capital as an integral part of the societal make up. The article points to social capital as a large part of the answer for the broken American societal system. Where there is social capital there is a strong community. The article gave the example of Italian regions. Many of these regions used recreation to build social capital, often unintentionally. Recreation activities such as soccer clubs, choir groups and…

the poor social capital stimulate the worsening of social isolation, which just the same as Putnam's argument. However, according to Bruce Rankin and James Quane's new finding, the erosion of social capital doesn't reduce people's engagement in community organizing. Their opinions contradict seemingly, but that doesn't mean Putnam's idea is wrong. Putnam's view makes sense to some extent, but also with limits. He only sees the impact of social capital on social isolation but ignore the effects…

Chapter 7 and 8 in The Practicum Companion gave some very important and insightful points. Chapter 7 was on working in groups while in the field. One of the main points discussed was expectations for practice with groups. They gave four examples of models that social workers may fulfill they were, social action/goals model, reciprocal goals model, and remedial goals model. Another point discussed was learning the factors that come along with group practice. The chapter discussed important…

“Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host Community”-David Blunkett. In the past years there has been a Migrant Crisis going on due to the corruption in the middle east. Many Refugees are coming from war torn countries to more welcoming areas like the United States and the European Union. This however affects the citizens of said areas who do not want the refugees coming to their countries. It also affects the refugees themselves because the…

(Eds.). (1996). The European Union: how democratic is it? London: SAGE. • Bellamy, R., & Castiglione, D. (2000). The uses of democracy: reflections on the European democratic deficit. In E. O. Eriksen, & J. E. Fossum (Eds.), Democracy in the European Union: Integration through deliberation? (pp. 65-84). London: Routledge. • Chryssochoou, D. N. (2000). Democracy in the European Union. London: I.B. Tauris. • Crombez, C. (2003). The democratic deficit in the European Union: much ado about…

issue of blocking citizens from participation in the policy making. In relation to the European Union , David Marquand (1979) argue that the European Parliament had the issue of democratic deficit as the citizens of Europe did not directly elect it, further more in relation to the European Union this deficit is seen as the lack of presentation to the ordinary citizen and lack of accountability of European Union institution. Democracy can be viewed in the following perspective; its requires…

Immigrants in the 1800’s came to America for the economic opportunities and to escape the problems of their native countries. America is also a nation where people could practice whatever religion they wanted. This brought Jews and Catholics to America. “Jews from Eastern Europe fleeing religious persecution -arrived in large numbers; over 2 million entered the United States between 1880 and 1920.” (U.S. Immigration) Additionally, America was an attractive destination for immigrants because it…

to the people who want to leave, is slowed down by the international community because they see what it does. It can help separate groups to better themselves, but economically the strengths of each build each other up such as the south and north in U.S during the civil war where the south seceded. It should be up to the country and its people if a group wants to secede for a viable reason, but international law and the community will intervene as necessary to stop the…

country to another country, these people are called migrants. Migration is defined as mobility from a society that has established stability to life in another society. This is done through a journey individually or collectively from their original community to a new society. Usually migration is a reaction to many circumstances, including civil wars or invasion by foreign countries,…