Word: outreaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provide better prenatal care and medical services have helped improve the odds that children will live to celebrate their first birthday. But the program barely survives on a mix of federal, state and foundation money, and the demand for services is overwhelming. The clinic's doctors and six outreach staff members currently treat 170 families, a number that could easily triple if the staff could handle the load. More than 90% of the patients are on Medicaid. Many have not graduated from high school. Some women must travel 90 minutes to get to the clinic, and many have...
...often invited them over for dinner. Though the clinic is located in Gary, a one-hour drive over twisting roads from their spartan four-room house in Panther, Rachel, 19, never missed an appointment with her doctor. "She was one of our prize patients," says Kem Short, an outreach worker in the clinic's maternal and infant health program. John, 24, kept an untouched $10 bill in his pocket to buy gasoline for his old truck when Rachel went into labor...
Tarkanian's outreach to talented but overlooked players began in his community-college years, and so did his solicitude for less fortunate players. Joe Barnes, who came to Riverside after being cut from his school's team in Detroit, recalls barbecues and parties at the Tarkanian house. But these days it appears as if Tarkanian's players enjoy a bit more than ribs and sodas. At a UNLV team practice last week there was no cookout, but there were plenty of fancy grilles on the player-driven Mercedes and BMWs in the gym parking...
Dowds terms the University's civic outreach program a policy of "rural pacification," designed simply to smooth the ruffled feathers of Cambridge citizens. "[Harvard's representatives to the community] are all extremely good at what they do...and they are all extremely determined that what Harvard wants out of the situation will not be denied," he says...
...Stepped-up employee outreach focusing on members of traditionally underrepresented groups, in order to increase community awareness...