HowToHarrisonburgProgress

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Our goal is to make social services more accessible and understandable to everyone through and online, easy to use medium. By eliminating discrimination as it relates to language barriers and socioeconomic status, our website is reachable and compatible for anyone seeking assistance with applying

Re-evaluate judges’ comments and set goals going forward: • The judges urge you to start with a comprehensive survey of the resources that already exist, as this may end up saving you a good deal of time and effort • For example, does the government provide refugees with social workers who are

Ballpark range for funding: $500.00 -Must have a clear, convincing argument for whatever amount of money we need Team name: S2O // mySSOnline.com The Pitch -Will last approximately 3 minutes. Our Practice Pitches: McKenzie: How often do we take for granted our homes, our jobs, our drivers licenses,

Organizations Like United Way: 1. 211.org: A free, confidential service that helps people across the U.S. and in many parts of Canada find the local resources they need (United Way Partners with 211) 1. You call to speak with a live, highly trained service professional in your area. Accessible 2

Suggestions from Megan Huffman: • Narrow our scope to just northern Virginia • From here, test our services on a control group in Harrisonburg to prove results • Get into contact with chamber of commerce, United Way, New Community Project to get expert opinions and help with a control group

During our first meeting of the second semester, a couple days after our conference with Megan Huffman, we decided on a minor change of course. Upon researching for the how-to guide for child care assistance (my responsibilty) I came accross a website, commonhelp.virginia.gov that essentially met al

• “Good morning! My name is Fatime Cisse and I am a currently an undecided student here at Bridgewater College. • “My name is is Erin Fitzpatrick and my field of study is political science” • “My name is Eli Thies and I study biology” • “And my name is McKenzie Melvin, and I study Globa

We were prompted to do research on organizations and programs that offer similar assistance that we plan to provide and United Way was explicitely mentioned. United Way is a non profit organization that aims "fight for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in every community