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community centre

a building used by members of a community for social gatherings, educational activities, etc.
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Community Place was established in 2001 from the merger of Lewis Street Center, Genesee Settlement House and Eastside Community Center.
"Jane Addams, the founder of the settlement house movement, said, `Hold your programs lightly,'" Mr.
Monolingual English ideologies among the Hull House group are to be found similarly among reformers in New York City, where the settlement house movement had a large presence and impact on public institutions, especially schools.
This article focuses on settlement house work and social
Along the way she supplies readers with just enough background information on dozens of topics, from Chicago politics, to settlement house activities, to the campaign against sweatshops.
The settlement house movement that emerged in the first part of the twentieth century defined among its primary goals the making of good American citizens who would contribute to the nation and become part of its social fabric.
From the time of the settlement house workers on, activists and reformers grappled with the question of whether social work was about social service or social change.
Market users want Europe's national settlement houses to merge 'horizontally' with each other to cut cross-border tradingcosts that at present can be ten times more expensive than settling a domestic transaction because of the number of settlement organisations involved.
Jane Addams organized the first settlement house in Chicago, stimulating the development of the profession of social work.
For example, New York settlement house field instructors, who supervise more than 100 social work students each year, say that even students who are concentrating in community organizing or other nonclinical practice are trained as therapists (personal communication with F.
Powers Hapgood would have made an ideal settlement house worker.
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