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LEARNING WITH LEDA

Americorps volunteers
2012 Americorps volunteers 

On Friday, September 28, GSM's Americorps volunteers went through a diversity training session led by Andre and Sarah from the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance (LEDA). 

 

Faith In Youth/AmeriCorps Program Director Robyn Afrik shared, "I always have diversity training for AmeriCorps members as part of their professional development and for working with at-risk, diverse children in the community."

One of the participants shared,
"The workshop gave us tools and awareness about issues that come up at the place I serve."

To learn more about LEDA and the trainings they offer, visit http://www.ethnicdiversity.org/ 
 
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PARTNERSHIP 101:

How neighbors and local organizations worked together to make  
a neighborhood's dream come true!

bus shelter

A couple of years ago, Holland Heights community members recognized a need for a bus shelter in the Stratford Way neighborhood. They wanted a protected place for children and residents to wait for the bus.

Initial contact with MAX Transit was made, and Good Samaritan Ministries' Community Connector Wasana Davis
helped organize neighborhood meetings to discuss the process for getting the shelter built.

Wasana
Wasana Davis 

To show MAX Transit how committed the neighbors were to building this bus shelter, community members organized fundraisers and a resident joined the MAX Advisory Council. 

Eventually, MAX approached the neighbors and said they had some extra funds available and would like to use them to put a shelter in the Holland Heights neighborhood. It was finished this September just in time for winter!  Heights of Hope Community Worker Tracey Hoesch shared, "It looks great and we are all very happy!"

Learn more about Heights of Hope HERE.
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