{"id":782,"date":"2016-04-26T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/?p=782"},"modified":"2016-04-29T19:26:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T19:26:33","slug":"newcomer-issues-at-the-ymca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/2016\/04\/26\/newcomer-issues-at-the-ymca\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcomer issues at the YMCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Newcomer issues at the YMCA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Campbell, Dan; Das, Nithin; Greene, Mitch and Swierk, Patricia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:\u00a0<\/strong>An interactive Qualifying Project, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This study seeks <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.wpi.edu\/wcpc\/files\/2015\/04\/Newcomer-Issues-at-the-YMCA.pdf\">http:\/\/wp.wpi.edu\/wcpc\/files\/2015\/04\/Newcomer-Issues-at-the-YMCA.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords: <\/strong>newcomers, YMCA, sports<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cataloged By:<\/strong>\u00a0Selina Sikder \/ B.J. Perkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u00a0Newcomer issues at the YMCA Author: Campbell, Dan; Das, Nithin; Greene, Mitch and Swierk, Patricia Date: 2015 Description:\u00a0An 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 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/2016\/04\/26\/newcomer-issues-at-the-ymca\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30314,32308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-refugees-in-worcester","category-student-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}