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Topic: Human Services

1.07.2008 Dinner Program in Dupont Down Under?
12.27.2007 Ask DC Corporations and Nonprofits to develop Special Work Programs for the Homeless
12.27.2007 Enhance DC Libraries Capacity to Help the Homeless
12.27.2007 Sponsor or encourage the development of programs for the homeless during the day
12.20.2007 Supporting People who are Homeless
12.19.2007 "I was thirsty and you gave me water."
12.29.2006 Vocational Training at the District's Oak Hill Detention Facility
5.25.2006 "Work in Progress" -- Helping the Homeless Help Themselves.
5.23.2006 Coin-operated public bathrooms
5.10.2006 Mandatory Child-Rearing Classes
5.05.2006 welfare reform
5.05.2006 Help abuse Children
5.05.2006 welfare reform in dc
5.05.2006 Feed the homeless
5.05.2006 USE THE ROOFS! Reduce inequalities, feed people in need, clean streams and rivers, make D.C. more comfortable to live.
5.05.2006 Smile
5.05.2006 Reduce DC Dependence
5.05.2006 Second Chances
5.05.2006 Nutritional Healing
5.05.2006 Support children who live in shelters
5.05.2006 School drop-outs / lack of goals for students
5.05.2006 ADOPT A HOMELESS PERSON
5.05.2006 Create a Combined District Healthcare for the Homeless Campaign Fund.
5.05.2006 Schools of Excellence
5.05.2006 DC Officials Mentor Youth for DC's Future
5.05.2006 Improve Ex-convicts within the District of Columbia
5.05.2006 Create a Combined District Education Fund Campaign
5.05.2006 Eradicating Black-on-black crime
5.05.2006 Love My Neighbor? How Can I? I Don't Even Know Him. Solution: Printed "Listservs."
5.05.2006 Dinner Program for Homeless Men Needs Space
5.05.2006 Ask the dropouts.
5.05.2006 Places to Go...People to Meet...Ideas to Share: Where Character Development, Directed Teen Civic and Social Involvement and Civic Journalism Meet
5.05.2006 Pedestrian, Exercise & Diet Friendly Neighborhoods
5.05.2006 Eliminating truancy
5.05.2006 Building bricks to better education
5.05.2006 DC Assistance Program--Helping All of DC by Helping Ex-Offenders.
5.05.2006 Reducing welfare caseloads, illiteracy, crime, drug addiction, and births to unwed mothers -- with one program
5.05.2006 Embracing Regional Solutions to Regional Social Services Problems
5.05.2006 FRESH START FOR THE HOMELESS
5.05.2006 THE (ALLSTATE) SMALL BUSINESS PIONEER PROGRAM
5.05.2006 HOMELESSNESS IN D.C.
5.05.2006 A Major New 'Industry' for DC: the Science of Living and Dying in America
5.05.2006 DCPS Business Practices Need Dedicated IG and Audit Attention
5.05.2006 ALWAYS THINK BEFORE YOU MOVE: A LIFE AFFIRMING PROGRAM FOR YOUTH
5.04.2006 Encouraging and Rewarding Community Service
5.04.2006 HOLISTIC LIVING DEMONSTRATION CENTER
5.04.2006 True Help For the Homeless
5.04.2006 Build Stronger Communities By Strengthening Youth Programs
5.04.2006 DC's crime rate would decline and educational system would benefit from using Boys and Girls Clubs to help youth who are suspended from schools.
5.04.2006 A Truly DC Mentorship Program
5.04.2006 Homeownership for the poor!
5.04.2006 Sanitation Workers As Public Safety Officers
5.03.2006 Program to Provide Comprehensive Healthcare to Homeless Individuals
5.03.2006 Human Capital Re-investment
5.03.2006 Annual Throw Back Day
5.03.2006 Learning to Help One Another in This Harsh World
5.03.2006 Youth Violence
5.03.2006 Know It, Fix It, Make It Look Good!
5.03.2006 And A Child Shall Lead Them
5.02.2006 "DC Cares"
5.02.2006 Increasing Volunteer Base for Senior Organizations (Revised)
5.02.2006 Mobile Basic Services Outreach Team
5.02.2006 Vocational Schools
5.01.2006 Mentoring programs in every elementary school will provide children individual attention and help them master basic skills for future achievement
5.01.2006 Increasing DC's Volunteer Base
5.01.2006 A proposal to Enhance the Learning Experience of Students in Poor Performance Secondary Schools in the District of Columbia by Marshall J. Spurlock
4.27.2006 DC Has Only One First-Order Problem: Poor Adults
4.27.2006 Stop Blocking Sidewalks During Construction
4.26.2006 Inadequate Parenting Skills
4.26.2006 Full federal funding of Medicaid
4.26.2006 Regional funding for education, corrections and social services.
4.25.2006 Fixing the city through the minds of the feared.
4.25.2006 Promoting positive teens and keeping them off the street.
4.24.2006 Restrooms in Metro Stations
4.24.2006 Make Churches Pay Taxes (Payments-in-lieu-of-services)
4.24.2006 It's a Beautiful Day in the (Black) Gayborhood (or, We Don't Do Bette Midler).
4.24.2006 Habitat for DC
4.24.2006 Bring Primary Care to the People: Step-Van Mobile Clinics Make Care Up Close (as in Accessible) and Personal
4.22.2006 Community Good News Networks (version 2)
4.22.2006 child support tracking card
4.21.2006 What to do with the MLK Library
4.21.2006 Parenting "A Village Raises a Child"
4.21.2006 Improve DC Ambulance Service
4.21.2006 Stop Dumping Evicted Tenants Things on the Street.
4.21.2006 Customer Service Excellence Competition
4.20.2006 Teach the Importance of RESPECT!
4.20.2006 Helping Children and Social Workers by Digitizing Foster Care and Social Services Records
4.20.2006 Increasing Funding for TANF Recipients in D.C.!!!
4.20.2006 Questionnaires That Help Build Caring Communities
4.20.2006 Combining volunteer efforts to improve all of DC
4.20.2006 VolunteerChek: Help Businesses Facilitate Employee Volunteerism to Improve Education in Washington
4.20.2006 Rebuild the District's Safety Net
4.20.2006 license street panhandlers
4.20.2006 Solving DC's Problems: A Five-Pronged Approach
4.20.2006 Understanding homelessness and panhandling
4.20.2006 Expanded before and after school services in the public schools
4.20.2006 Housing for community/health care workers
4.20.2006 Make a difference in the drop out rate in school!!!
4.20.2006 When you've gotta go, you've gotta go....
4.19.2006 STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY CAPACITITES FOR COMBATING HIV AND AIDS IN THE DISTRICT
4.19.2006 It's Time to Break the Taboo and Pay High School Students
4.19.2006 "Servicing the Community"
4.19.2006 Working Together For The Common Good of All Men
4.18.2006 Affordable Housing for Employees of Non-Profit Organizations and the Public School System
4.18.2006 More Help Available for Working Families
4.18.2006 Getting kids off the streets and selling drugs.
4.18.2006 Celebrate!
4.18.2006 Require counseling for people who have been in traumatic situations.
4.18.2006 Emergency room openness to help patients and family
4.18.2006 Housing for the homeless
4.18.2006 Microchip registration for dogs/cats - This limits the number of dogs in the city and improves animal care
4.18.2006 Personal Development For Today's Youth. Enstill power, respect and confidence.
4.18.2006 "I was thisty and you gave me water"
4.18.2006 Involve youth in helping others; employing them in this way will also give them a positive way to spend their time.
4.18.2006 The aging of the National Capital Area -- when is a problem not a problem?
4.18.2006 A Simpler Solution - "Improvement Day"
4.17.2006 How to build a better city.
4.17.2006 Apply Strategies of the 1930's Works Progress Administration To Address Chronic Unemployment Among Poor DC Residents Due to Lack of Skills or Work Readiness
4.14.2006 Departments of Economic and Communtiy Development
4.13.2006 Turning The Lives Of Our Young People Around
4.12.2006 Plant a radish-gardening in DC schools is fun, educational and healthy
4.12.2006 Prevent gang activity now before is too late
4.10.2006 Billions of Bridges
4.10.2006 Give young people an alternative to high school and college with an expansive technical/trade education system that meshes with an apprenticeship program upon graduation.
4.10.2006 Small dogs are grrrreat companions for senior citizens living in apartment buildings.
4.10.2006 A Simple Solution to Transport the City's Low-Income and Disabled Children and Adults
4.08.2006 Community Good News Networks
4.07.2006 Support Services
4.07.2006 Homeless
4.07.2006 "Education is our Business" borrowed from title of oped Post article by Stephen Porter 4/2/06
4.07.2006 Incentives and funding for business owners to help men and women returning home from prison.
4.07.2006 A dedicated drug hotline
4.05.2006 Turning the "at risk" into community leaders
4.05.2006 Washington's biggest probem is children without proper families.
4.05.2006 Lights Out on DC: A Day to Celebrate the Blind
4.05.2006 Homes & centers for the elderly should be co-located with youth centers and orphanages.
4.04.2006 Blended Funding for Services for At Risk Children
4.04.2006 Address the city's hunger, obesity, malnutrition and diabetes issues by teaching people how to cook and eat well.
4.04.2006 Make hunger and malnutrition illegal for children and the elderly in the District of Columbia.
4.04.2006 DC Supermarkets Need to Clearly Mark WIC Approved Food Items on the Storeshelves
4.04.2006 Mental Health Care in the DC area
4.04.2006 Resolving Homelessness among the city's Elderly and Disabled.
4.01.2006 Assign a mentor family for all unwed mothers who apply for medicaid assistance and welfare.
4.01.2006 City-wide affordable units in luxury condo buildings, extra housing discounts for social workers, teachers and other community service jobs
4.01.2006 Neighorhood Schools; Neighborhood Centers
3.31.2006 More Methadone Maintenance Treatment
3.30.2006 Cut out welfare. It only holds people down. Make welfare something attainable only if you go to occupational school or college.
3.30.2006 Apply Proceeds of St. Elizabeth's Land, Sold as Homeland Security Headquarters, to Construct New Homeless Rehabilitation Dormatories, Emptying DC Parks of Smelly Bums
3.30.2006 Odd jobs in the community and cash for the homeless
 

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