Informal Helping Networks and Social Service Changes: A Community Perspective

Interviews with 112 household respondents and 58 social service agency directors in three ethnically and racially distinct Chicago neighborhoods provided a comprehensive assessment of -- household helping relationships in a community context. Reliance on informal helping greatly exceeded use of formal agencies at the household level. Households were twice as likely to give help as receive it in a complex variety of ways, while agencies struggled to add new functional programs in a time of retrenchment. What households gave and got did not overlap with agency programs in any coherent way. Further, household respondents and agency directors disagreed in their perceptions of community needs. Households wanted employment and general city services, while agency officials emphasized human services. In effect, efforts to tie formal and informal helping relationships together at a community scale will have to respect the complexity and reciprocity of informal helping by reformulating how the needy are identified, emphasizing reciprocity versus expertise in helping and expanding what presently count as program needs to include a wider range of services

Welcome & Keynote Address by Dr. Kevin P. Reilly

Our keynote speaker for the event is Dr. Kevin P. Reilly, President Emeritus and Regent Professor with the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System, having served as President from 2004-2013.Dr. Reilly will address what society is asking of higher education in the 21st century, and will stimulate a discussion on global issues, evolving higher education delivery formats, and the ongoing conversations on utility and utopia as Provost Andrews published in her blog. His experience leading the Wisconsin University System and perspective on current issues in Wisconsin higher education, work on the Higher Education Working Group on Global Issues for the Council of Foreign Relations, and initiation of a competency-based degree program that required evolving higher education delivery formats will set the tone for a lively event and day of discussion. We hope you will participate in this important discussion

サステナビリティ実現に向けた取り組みにおける都市大学の役割

Portland State University (PSU) faculty, students, and staff integrate sustainability into teaching, research, and campus projects, many of which are conducted in collaboration with business, community, and public entities. PSU President Wim Wiewel will offer his observations on how the "triple bottom line" approach to sustainability can inform this work, how to build collaborations locally and globally, and how to focus these efforts to attain the greatest results.Keynote Speec

Interview with Wim Wiewel

Wim Wiewel was interviewed on August 2, 2017, by Chris Broderick, at Portland State University.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/rememberpsu_oralhist/1007/thumbnail.jp

Portland State University\u27s Second (R)evolution: Partnering to Anchor the Institution in Sustainable Communities

Portland State University has become internationally known for its whole-university approach to community-university engagement. Many academic leaders from around the world are now drawing on models for engagement that originated at Portland State. As the university takes stock of its successes, of changing economic conditions, and of the increasingly urgent need to focus on sustainability, the campus with its new leadership has begun to look closely at how to expand and refine the models. This paper on Portland State\u27s Second (R)evolution provides models and ideas that show great promise of reinvigorating community-university partnerships nationally and internationally

Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods

Length of Video: 25 minCo-producers: Pierre Clavel and Wim Wiewel. Director/Editor: Denis Mueller. Assistant Director and Project Research: Elizabeth Montgomery. Associate Editor, Deb Ellis. Narration: Cheryl Corley. Production Crew: Carmen Lippin, Patrick Halliwell, Paul Crisanti, Patricia Clem, Golden Watkins, Luis del Real. On-Line Editing Provided by: Maljack Productions Inc. On-Line Editor: John Strolia. Assistant Editor: Giselle Aguilera. Additional Footage Provided by: Community Television Network; Scott Jacobs. Based on the book: Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods: Progressive City Government in Chicago 1983-1987. Pierre Clavel and Wim Wiewel, eds., Rutgers University Press, 1991. Produced by: Video Services, a division of Community TV Network. Copyright 1992 Wim Wiewel and Pierre Clavel.When Wim Wiewel and Pierre Clavel co-edited Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods (Rutgers University Press, 1991), they also began videotaping interviews with potential chapter authors, initially (in 1989) with the video done by Elizabeth Montgomery. Wiewel took the lead on the video project, not only supporting Clavel's year co-editing the book at the Center for Urban Economic Development--he was director--but getting funding from the Chicago Community Trust for more discussion and video, including a small conference where Washington, City Hall officials, and community activists came together to reminisce about the experience. This video is the result. Footage of Washington speaking in campaigns and as Mayor is combined with clips from interviews and the conference, where participants include Maria Cerda, Donna Ducharme, Doug Gills, Elizabeth Hollander, John Kretzman, Greg Longhini, Robert Mier, Alton Miller, Kari Moe, Arturo Vazquez, Judy Walker, and Timothy Wright.Support for this project provided by: Center for Urban Economic Development, University of Illinois at Chicago; Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University; Chicago Community Trust.1_ue910kx