- Disabled
- Drug & Alcohol
- Early Childhood
- Elderly Programs
- Mental Health
- Teen Programs
- Victims of Abuse
Mission Statement: Support the development and evaluation of social service-related initiatives that address the needs of individuals, families, and communities in Fayette County in partnership with community, business, government, religious, and other social organizations.
Community Meetings Project Ideas:
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Add Family Centers using existing facilities, ie. schools, libraries, etc. in Brownsville.
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We need prevention programs for Drug/Alcohol/Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention for the Brownsville area.
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Greater agency cooperation and collaboration and sharing resources in Brownsville.
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We need character education back into the schools. (Bville)
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Less talk and more action with social conditions offered. (Bullskin)
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We need all the printed programs here in Bullskin.
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Need better control of drugs and alcohol in this area. (Bullskin)
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Need to add drug and alcohol treatment programs here. (Bullskin)
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We need Neighborhood Watch Programs in Dawson & Vanderbilt areas.
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We have major Drug and Alcohol problems. (Vanderbilt)
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Make/Increase services and community accessibility for Sr. Citizens. (S.Connellsville)
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Increase number of Drug Education & Awareness programs. (S. Connellsville)
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Focus on prevention for Drug & Alcohol. (S. Connellsville)
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Community needs to be receptive to Social Programs. (S. Connellsville)
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Check w/hospitals, doctors, church groups to determine what is needed and how to help and respond to those in need. (Connellsville)
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We need Teen Programs – Pregnancy Prevention. (Connellsville)
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We need Elderly Programs. Expand programs and services @ senior center. (Connellsville)
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Work on prevention and breaking the cycle of Victims of Abuse. (Connellsville)
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We need a Neighborhood Watch Program (Connellsville)
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Drug & Alcohol – Good police force trying to control. (Connellsville)
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Need more Early Childhood Programs (Connellsville)
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Need transportation for Victims of Abuse. (Connellsville)
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Need programs for the teens in this area. (Dunbar)
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Need programs for the teens in this area. (Dunbar)
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We would like a Neighborhood Watch Program in Dunbar.
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Create programs for teens in Fairchance.
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Create programs for the elderly in Fairchance.
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Create programs for Emergency Care in Fairchance.
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Create programs for Day Care in Fairchance.
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Team elderly day care and children’s programs. Inter-generational day care. (Fairchance)
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Set up Counseling Centers in Masontown.
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We need a place to gather from preschool up to the senior citizens. (Masontown)
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See latch key plans, daycare, and services to help our youth. (Menallen)
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Need activities for different groups, ie. elderly, the young families and especially for our teenagers. (Perryopolis)
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We would like to see something for the elderly in the community. (Perryopolis)
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Keep social services recipients accountable. (Uniontown)
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Improve access to social services – Transportation – funding for uninsured. (Uniontown)
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Support and grow responsible fatherhood programs like “Dad’s Matter”. (Uniontown)
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Collaboration of Accountability. (Uniontown)
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Develop teen programs with teen input that will keep their interest and keep them off of the streets and positively engaged. (Uniontown)
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Bring the entire community together in assisting others within ALL social conditions. (Uniontown)
Do not forget to submit ideas and comments in (Leave a Reply).
Dads Matter is presenting a free Saturday Seminar on the “7 Habits of a 24/7 Dad” at the East End United Community Center in Uniontown. The seminar will begin at 9:00 on May 15, 2010. There will also be a free buffet breakfast that will begin at 8:30. In addition, participants will receive a $10 Wal-Mart gift card. If you are interested in registering or would like to learn more about this seminar, call Dads Matter at 724-437-2590.
A classroom assignment has turned out to be about much more than a grade for criminal justice students at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus.
State police Trooper Brian Burden, who is an adjunct professor at the school, asked his crime prevention class to conduct SARA projects for Brownsville, Connellsville and Uniontown, with SARA standing for Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment. It was supposed to be an academic exercise looking at the types of crime in an area, the cause, ways to reduce crime and an assessment of the plan put into action.
Dr. Richard Ball, the acting chairman of the Administration of Justice program at Penn State-Fayette, said the project gave the students a taste of the real world.
“They started getting fired up and decided they wanted to start implementing the responses,” Ball said. “Brian (Burden) said to me it’s a shame you do this for a class and that’s the end of it. Isn’t there a way we can keep that going? Anytime you see student enthusiasm, you jump on it.”
And so the project moved from paper to the community and is becoming a unifying element for the classes in the Administration of Justice program.
“Why not have it become a big, on-going project for the entire Administration of Justice program? We look for ways to make it a program, not just separate courses,” Ball said. “The nice thing about hooking this SARA into the other classes is to have the students learning from other students. The best way to learn something is to teach it.”
Ball said students can also participate in the community projects through the Administration of Justice Club, so they don’t have to leave the project behind when they finish their class.
“It helps us interface with the community. It shows the county that we’re not just sitting here on Route 119, that our students are engaged. They’ll be doing hands-on crime prevention projects that come out of their own SARA,” Ball said. “I want to do more with student initiative and student energy instead of some top down project from a professor.”
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Burden, who is retiring from the Pennsylvania State Police in July, has been teaching at Penn State-Fayette for the past three years, teaching various courses in criminal justice and sociology. This semester marked the first time he taught the crime prevention class.
“Looking at the class syllabus, I came up with the idea that the best way to teach it was to have them do it; have them apply what they’ve learned thus far and use it in the real world,” Burden said.
Burden said he has drawn on his own background in teaching the course.
“If I do it, that’s how I learn. If you give me a book, I may learn it, or I may not. I brought that into this course,” Burden said.
Burden said he also prefers using the Socratic method of teaching, opening a dialogue with his students.
“People love being heard and understood, and obviously, respected,” Burden said.
The students have picked up on that and in conducting their SARA studies sought information from the officials and residents of the communities they targeted for the studies.
The students met with the Uniontown, Brownsville and Connellsville police chiefs, magisterial district judges and the Fayette County Drug and Alcohol Commission to gather crime statistics for the three communities. They also reviewed the Uniform Crime Reports for each community and met with Neighborhood Watch groups to find out how people perceive crime in their communities.
Burden said he was a bit surprised when the students came up with responses to reduce crime that truly reached to the roots of the problem: keeping today’s teens from becoming tomorrow’s criminals.
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