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2. Community emergency response team - Wikipedia

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   Many sponsoring agencies employ a full-time community-service person as liaison to the CERT members. In some communities, the liaison is a volunteer and CERT member. As people are trained and agree to join the community emergency response effort, a CERT is formed. Initial efforts may result in a team with only a few members from across the ...

3. Outreach - Wikipedia

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   Outreach Program for Women. Outreach is the activity of providing services to any population that might not otherwise have access to those services. [1] [2] A key component of outreach is that the group providing it is not stationary, but mobile; in other words, it involves meeting someone in need of an outreach service at the location where they are.

4. Civic engagement - Wikipedia

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   Civic engagement can take many forms—from individual volunteerism, community engagement efforts, organizational involvement and government work such as electoral participation. These engagements may include directly addressing a problem through personal work, community based, or work through the institutions of representative democracy. [4]

5. Cross-Lines Community Outreach - Wikipedia

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   Cross-Lines Community Outreach, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) providing "people in the Kansas City area affected by poverty with services and opportunities that encourage self-confidence, meet the needs of today, and provide tools for future self-sufficiency."

6. Homeless street outreach - Wikipedia

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   The role of the outreach worker can become uncertain in this practice—although outreach workers are supposed to be advocates, in this situation there is an inherent power dynamic that positions the outreach worker as the role of the gatekeeper, which allows them to wield the power over the unhoused individual to provide them with certain ...

7. Community service - Wikipedia

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   service is a non-paying job performed by one person or a group of people for the benefit of their community or its institutions. Community service is distinct from volunteering, since it is not always performed on a voluntary basis and may be performed for a variety of reasons, including: . Required by a government as a part of citizenship requirements, like the mandatory "Hand and hitch-up ...