Word: outreaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cohen said the Debating Society is currently discussing plans to create an outreach program to visit area schools and provide "something that kids sometimes don't see in school--two sides of an issue...
Nobody has figures now, but it is expected that dozens of tiny towns will cease to exist. "Some people will absolutely leave -- the older people who lost everything are not going to go back," declares Roger Hannan, executive director of the Farm Resource Center, a mental-health outreach network, in Mound City, Illinois. "The prolonged nature of this flood is especially troublesome. We have little to refer to in the literature of disasters." But it is known that 60 years ago, after a summer of dust storms and drought, thousands of Midwesterners pulled up stakes and went west. This flood...
...turn toward heroin is coupled with a sharp recognition among youthful abusers of the dangers of crack. Anthony M., 13, who is detoxifying from a marijuana habit at the Daytop Village Bronx Outreach Center in New York City, estimates that 20 or so of his 200 classmates use heroin or other drugs, but among them, only one goes in for crack. "That kid wanted others to do it too," he says, "but the other kids were like, 'Nah,' because some of the kids, their parents had died because of crack...
...orchestras are in danger of becoming cultural dinosaurs. Some are already extinct: within the past decade, major ensembles have collapsed in cities as disparate as Oakland, California; New Orleans; Denver and Birmingham, Alabama. Endowments have been tapped and seasons shortened; crowd-pleasing pops concerts have been added and community-outreach programs established. And yet the slide continues. Gathering last month in New York City for their gloomiest convention in years, the members of the American Symphony Orchestra League heard a stark message: Change...
Since then, O'Brien said, the Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospital has developed a host of new programs that are more responsive to the community's needs. "We really increased our primary care outreach to the community." O'Brien said in an interview yesterday morning...