As the group leader on this project I served as the key contact in relation to the community and stakeholders who participated in making this event a success. Along with my colleagues we created and distributed surveys, pertaining to community health and self awareness.
2. SSU TEAM: Mariah Pollard, Tammie Pinkston, Shyrae Lonon,
Dr. Roenia DeLoach and Jazmine Wilson
3. This project was developed to fulfill the requirements of the Interventive
Methods Social Work with Communities course. The course provides
knowledge and development skills for professional social work practice
with diverse populations in a variety of practice settings with specific skills
such as problem solving, assessment, intervention and evaluation of
practice.
This project gave us an opportunity to :
Understand the relationships between macro level social work and selected
concepts of community development, empowerment, and sustainable development
Examine the roles that social workers assume in working with community
organizations and assisting communities in mobilizing for action.
Apply basic principles and strategies of community organizing and planning
Examine and apply strategies for overcoming or reducing resistance to planned
changes in social systems
4. Plan of Action
Met with the Chief
and council of
Okyerekrom
Discussed the
correlation
between sanitation
and malaria.
Administered
surveys to council
community
members
Analyzed survey
results.
Planned and
implemented the
Okyerekrom
Community
Cleanup Project
5. Community Organizations and
Collaborative Partners
Zoomlion
A waste
management
and environment
sanitation
business that
specializes in
community clean
up initiatives
Provided tools as
well as
volunteers to
support the
cleanup in
Okyerekrom.
6. COCA-COLA
Organizational
Partnership
• A bottling distribution
company that supplies
local communities
with beverages.
• A representative from
the Coca-Cola
company spoke on the
issue of sanitation, as
well as community
empowerment.
• Provided members of
attendance with
beverages.
8. Community
Partnership
Ejisu-Juaben Municipal
Assembly
• Mission- is to improve the
quality of life of its people
and implement policies to
set up human development.
• Registered a letter we
wrote to request a
community washroom for
the Okyerekrom community.
also provides tools for
community cleanup.
34. Musical Chairs Competition
Dr. DeLoach was in charge of the children activities
Over 150 children participated in the events and almost all took home prizes
Activities: Egg race, sack race, musical chairs, dance contest and fruit basket on the head
race
48. Charles Ampofo Mensah
Edmund Bernagd Ayepah
Ejisu Municipal Assembly
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Amean Opoko
Isiac Fortson
Department of Social Welfare
Solomon Achulo
Kwame Adusel
ZoomLion
Joyce
Quashie Lodge
Gibson Ofosu Asante
Kwaku Kran
Christopher Amankwaa
Resurrection Baptist Church
Nicholas Duah
Emmanuel Ato Aban
Queen Mother
Kyerewaa Amponsem
Chief
Nana Osei Okyere II
51. THANK YOU
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Department of Social Work
Department of Social and Behavior Sciences: Behavior
Analysis
Savannah State University
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