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Mercer University
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Program: COPC New Dir
Year: 2002 |
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Dr. Peter Brown (Program Primary Contact)
Mercer Center for Community De
1400 Coleman Avenue
Macon, GA 31207
Phone: (912) 301-5370 Ext:
Fax: (478) 301-5373
brown_pc@mercer.edu
Primary Contacts for Other Years
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| Overview
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| Mercer University and the Mercer Center for Community Development will use its Community Outreach Partnership Center New Directions grant of $149,996 to focus on two areas of need in Macon, Georgia. Health care issues and community organizing, priorities expressed by residents themselves, will be the focus of this COPC. Activities include extending health services for the uninsured, improving the health care process, and building a comprehensive health care system. Community organizing projects will include a neighborhood advocates program, a youth broadcast journalism program, and a community garden program. Mercer University will partner with several agencies, including the Medical Center of Central Georgia, the North Central Health District, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Georgia, and John W. Burke Elementary School. The overall goal of these new initiatives is to build the social capital of Macon's Central South neighborhoods and their residents by strengthening access to health services, organizing residents to participate in expanding health care capacity, encouraging residents to be come homeowners in the area, and developing highly visible community-driven projects that bring youth and their families together to serve the community.
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