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Seattle Community Network |
Wednesday,
November 15, 2000 |
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November 15
Wednesday, November 15, lunch 11:30, forum noon - 1:30 p.m. at Tent Village III, at El Centro de la Raza, 2524 16th Ave S. "... an annual event of WHEEL, the Women's Housing Equality and Enhancement League. Very limited parking. Please dress warmly. Includes free lunch. Please arrive early. RSVP to (206) 956-0334."
"Seattle Displacement Coalition and others will rally to support City Councilman Peter Steinbrueck's proposal calling for an additional... 12 million dollars in City funds for shelter, transitional housing, and supportive services." Info: (206) 632-0668 or jvf4119@zipcon.net or Jan Munger, Tim Harris, or David Bloom, (206) 441-3247.
"45th St. Clinic is the only low cost clinic in North Seattle providing adult dental care. Our dentists provide a full range of preventive and restorative dental services to children and adults. Homeless people, our prenatal patients, and people with HIV/AIDS are designated priority patients. "Half of our prenatal patients, and 20% of all agency clients, need translation services. Most of our providers and support staff are bilingual Spanish speakers, and other language translators are available as needed. "... provides prenatal and obstetrical services to low income women, who are at high risk for complications of pregnancy associated with poor nutrition, chemical dependency, homelessness, and lack of health care. ... "The Homeless Youth Clinic is an evening walk-in clinic for street youth ages 12-23. Services include primary medical care, mental health counseling, substance abuse and HIV counseling, walk-in social work services, parenting classes, laundry vouchers, transportation to the Clinic, referrals for dental care, and health education."
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November 12 - 18
Seattle Site of the Week:  
TESC: Community
Information Systems
TESC CIS Partnership
Program
Oregon Farm
Worker Ministry
Mason Matters
Health Records in Rural Nigeria
"This is a... program that develops web-based software for a community. Some of these communities will be local and some will be in other places in the world; Argentina, Pakistan, Sarawak, Russia, Mason County, Mexico, Oregon, Idaho and Italy are possibilities. "The basic themes for the program are participatory design, software development, community informatics, social networks and globalism. ... "The Partnership Project is the primary component... Each student will work in a team with other students over a three-quarter period developing web-based software for a community that has submitted a proposal. ... Students will use the same suite of public domain tools... "The three quarter project will culminate with a 'Community Information Systems Partnership Fair' (better name TBD) on June 6, 2001." |
