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Reaching At-Risk Youth through Social Enterprise: Helping Disadvantaged Youth in Marysville Develop Community Social Relationships and Representations to Help Empower them to Graduate
Northwest University, March 2015
Through interviews and literature reviews, this study undertook to understand components necessary to support youth at risk for not graduating high school, to help build individual capacity, and to better position these ...
The Western Church: a Call to Justice
Northwest University, 2015
Justice is of great importance to God and should be of equal importance to His followers. Unfortunately, this concern for justice has been lost in much of Western Christian thinking. Consequently, Christians miss out on a ...
A Church for the Community: a Model of Church-Based Community Development
Northwest University, 2015
Within our globalized society, churches have unique roles to play as agents of social change. In the context of the author's fieldwork in South Africa, this thesis investigates the idea that God calls His Church—as His ...
The Art of Survival: Defining Abusive Experience, What It Means to Be Well, and Creative Expression to Guide Aftercare Interventions for Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Northwest University, 2015
The issue of Intimate Partner Violence currently populates the international conversation for women’s rights. Language is frank and temperatures are high. While much of the stage is occupied by those who seek to raise ...
Artistic Interventions Toward Healing for Refugees
Northwest University, 2015
There are many social and economic opportunities for refugees who relocate to a Western context. Additionally there are usually many agencies and resources that aim to meet the tangible and physical needs of refugee com m ...
Co-powerment in the Mission-Driven Sector: Client Participation in Program Evaluation
Northwest University, April 2015
This paper centers on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) focused on development work in underserved populations, making the case that non-profits aimed at empowering the marginalized must fulfill their commitment to ...
A Social Enterprise for the Environment: Sustainable Community Development in Ethiopia
Northwest University, 2015
In Ethiopia, work in social development has been dominated by aid organizations that primarily focused on relief aid, but the majority of Ethiopian people have not received benefits from those organizations. Fortunately, ...
Reunifying Families: the Importance of Community Support for Broken Families
Northwest University, 2015
It is easy to understand the need for children to be removed from unsafe and unhealthy living conditions. Yet studies reviewed for this thesis argued that children thrive emotionally, mentally and developmentally better ...
Photography for Justice: Values to Consider
Northwest University, March 2015
Photography is a powerful art form that can be used as a tool to bring awareness and response to causes for justice. Unfortunately, photos have been used in ways that evoke emotion to fill a specific agenda. Photos have ...
Education: What Works?
Northwest University, 2015
This paper uses a multi case study approach to examine education on a global scale. All of the illustrations used are schools and organizations that the Mona Foundation supports. All of the schools or organizations were ...