What Is Community Outreach?

In the studies, you are presented with a description and two applications of community outreach. As a human services leader, your organization may regularly be mandated to engage in some community outreach. What are some of the community outreach activities of your agency or an organization that you are familiar with? Present at least one with a rationale as to how it meets the criteria as community outreach.

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Amazon’s gold campaign meets the criteria of community outreach because it focuses on educating the communities on childhood cancer and how to enhance self-care and financial support to ensure cancer research continues to improve the welfare of communities. The community Kaizens program meets the criteria because it focuses on imparting knowledge to organizations that directly serve people to optimize their efficiency. In other words, it is a form of social planning for the community. Finally, the Camp Amazon program meets the criteria because it focuses on educating the young generation with technical-based skills to become creative thinkers and improve community welfare.

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