Category: Student Works

Designing a Bioshelter in Worcester

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Title: Designing a Bioshelter in Worcester

Author: Breen, John, Thomas Fay, Peerapat Luxsuwong, Mark Overdeest and Yunjae Sohn.

Date: 2015

Description: Qualifying Project Report, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

This project was intended to determine the most effective design for a bioshelter that would serve as a year-round urban food production system to be used and co-managed by refugees in Worcester, MA. This bioshelter was designed to take advantage of natural solar, wind and water resources, including a rain catchment system, a climate battery, thermal mass, composting, natural heating and ventilation systems. This project was designed to be built on two unused lots, and to serve as a gathering space as well as a food production site. Refugees living in Worcester will utilize the bioshelter to grow crops to sell and supplement their incomes.

Keywords: Bioshelter, Refugee farmers, Urban Farming, Year Round Farming

Cataloged by: Patrick Barnosky/ B. J. Perkins

Internship Reports

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Title: Internship Reports (Clark University, Department of International Development and Social Change)

Date: 2011 – 2013

Description: “Background on Food Security and Farmer’s Markets,” “Marketing Plan for the Main South Farmers Market at YMCA Family Park,” “Vendor Information Catalog: Biographies of Vendors and Crops Sold at the Markets: Beaver Brook Market, REC Main South Market,” “Working Literature Review of Refugee Education Interventions.”

Keywords: Education, Food Security, Farmer’s Market

Cataloged by: Patrick Barnosky / B.J. Perkins

Main South Promise Neighborhood Partnership [draft]

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Title: Main South Promise Neighborhood Partnership [draft]

Date: 2010

Description: A proposal for the Main South neighborhood in Worcester to become a U.S. Department of Education “Promise Neighborhood.” The proposal details the demonstrated community and academic needs in the neighborhood, and plans to provide “cradle through college through career solutions” to improve educational outcomes, youth development and well-being, as well as revitalize the community. This plan includes school partnerships, innovation school development, youth engagement, student support programs, housing rehabilitation, built environment improvements. The proposal is presented by the United Way of Central Massachusetts, Clark University, Worcester Public Schools, the Main South Community Development Corporation, and the Worcester Education Collaborative, and includes community and youth involvement in planning.

Keywords: Promise Neighborhood, Education Partnerships, Youth Development, Community Revitalization

Cataloged by: Patrick Barnosky / B.J. Perkins

Material from student class projects, Department of International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University given to the Archive by Professor Anita Fabos

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Title: Material from student class projects, Department of International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University given to the Archive by Professor Anita Fabos

Date: 2011 -2014

Description: 

ID 131 Local Action/ Global Change Spring 2011
Instructor : Professor Anita Fabos
Research Project A: Finding data on refugees in Worcester for the Main South Promise Neighborhood Initiative.
Research Project B: Assisting the Bhutanese community in Worcester to strengthen its capacity to solve its high priority needs.
ID 131 Local Action/ Global Change Spring 2012
Instructor : Professor Anita Fabos
Research Project : Assisting refugee youth in Worcester to access higher education
ID 131 Local Action/ Global Change Spring 2014
Instructor : Professor Anita Fabos
Research Project : Refugee Community Oral History Project in Worcester
ID 292/IDCE 30297 Displacement and Development in the Contemporary World Fall   2012
Instructor: Professor Anita Fabos
Research Project : Identify and analyze refugee livelihood strategies in Worcester
ID 292/IDCE 30297 Displacement and Development in the Contemporary World Spring 2014
Instructor : Professor Anita Fabos and Professor Marianne Sarkis
Research Project : Somali Bantu: Farming Project in Worcester                                                     The Albanian Story                      Vietnamese: Immigration to the US Liberians: Refugees and New Americans

Cataloged By: Selina Sikder / B.J. Perkins

Psychosocial needs assessment of refugee family health in Worcester, Massachusetts

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Title: Psychosocial needs assessment of refugee family health in Worcester, Massachusetts

Author: Prepared by Meg Barritt and Ben Stephens for Lutheran Community Services of Massachusetts, International Services Program in Worcester, MA

Description:  A report to the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts

Keywords: Psychosocial needs assessment, family health

Cataloged By: Selina Sikder / B.J. Perkins

The reference guide for new immigrant families

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Title: The reference guide for new immigrant families

Author: Students of Spanish 401.01, Assumption College, Spring Semester 2009

Publisher: Dr. James A. Caradonio New Citizens Center and Assumption College, Worcester, MA

Date: 2009

Description: A community service learning project for the New Citizen Center by the students of Spanish 401.01 at Assumption College, Spring Semester 2009. This reference guide provides information about local organizations and institutions that offer programs and services of interest to immigrants and refugees. The guide includes educational, family, health, social and legal resources.

Keywords: community organizations

Cataloged by: Caleigh Ross / B.J. Perkins

Development of a resource guide for the Worcester refugee population

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Title: Development of a resource guide for the Worcester refugee population

Author: Lopes, Ashilly; Kerhulas, Kevin; Ellison, Samuel and Rojas, Sebastian

Date: 2015

Description:  An interactive Qualifying Project, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

For this project the students developed a refugee resource guide for the Shalom Neighborhood Center in Worcester, MA.  The aim of this guide is to facilitate the efforts of the Shalom Neighborhood Center as an intermediary between service providers and refugees in need of services. The resource guide contains the names, contact information and services offered by 27 refugee service organizations in the city of Worcester.

http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-030515-145323/unrestricted/SNC_Final_Report.pdf

Keywords: resource guide, social service agencies

Cataloged By: Selina Sikder / B.J. Perkins

Newcomer issues at the YMCA

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Title: Newcomer issues at the YMCA

Author: Campbell, Dan; Das, Nithin; Greene, Mitch and Swierk, Patricia

Date: 2015

Description: An interactive Qualifying Project, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

This study seeks to identify ways the downtown Worcester YMCA can reach out to new immigrants and refugees to the city. Data was gathered mainly through user surveys, interviews, and focus groups. The authors conclude with a number of recommendations on how to reach new immigrants and refugees to Worcester including offering global sports such as soccer and sepak tekraw, exporting YMCA services to immigrant and refugee organizations to engage new residents where they gather, providing transportation and providing services for refugees and immigrants at the YMCA.

http://wp.wpi.edu/wcpc/files/2015/04/Newcomer-Issues-at-the-YMCA.pdf

Keywords: newcomers, YMCA, sports

Cataloged By: Selina Sikder / B.J. Perkins