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Recycling Education & Experience "
Getting Started
- Fall 2001
Updated August 8,
2002
Lineup of FALL 2001
Courses for our Kickoff Semester:
Courses starting in
September
2001
- Stop
Paying
Rent!
- Homebuyer workshop & Credit Repair
Clinic
- Mondays 7-8
pm starting September 10th
- Currently at Lisbon Avenue Neighborhood
Development -LAND, 1952 N. 36th Street
- Instructor: Mia
Lott-Rogers
- Handling
Family
Crises
- Domestic Abuse,
AODA, & Co-dependency Issues
- Tuesdays 1-3 pm starting September
11th
- At the Community
Justice Center on 34th & Brown, 1953 N.
34th Street
- Instructor: Linda
Carter
- Starting
a Business in Your
Home
- Use your
talents to be your own boss
- Wednesdays
5:00-6:30 pm starting
September 12th
- At the Community
Justice Center on 34th & Brown, 1953 N.
34th Street
- Instructor: Peter
Kokh
- Maneuvering
Through the Health Care System -
Focus: Lead Poisoning -
Teaching families how to access the Health Care
system and to identify emergency situations, and
how to be their own health advocates with their
doctors, with insurance companies, even with
utility companies. This course sponsored by
Westside Healthcare Association.
Courses added in
October 2001
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Fall 2001
Graduation Ceremony, December 3, 2001
The first group of Neighborhood College students to
complete courses received
Course Completion &
Achievement Certificates at a special
ceremony on Monday, December 3rd. The event was held
at the Forest County
Potawatomi Community
Hall, NW corner of
N. 33rd & W. North Avenue. This
building, formerly Fred's Ornamental Doors, is at the
East end of the new Metcalfe school / Boys & Girls
Club complex.
The Neighborhood College Certificates earned by
individuals come with UWM
Continuing Education Credits from the
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Outreach Dept. on
the basis of one tenth credit per hour of class.
A buffet supper was provided, with catering by Jada
Drew, Ollie Summers assisting. Jada, interested in
pursuing a career in catering, was a graduate of the
Neighborhood Home-Based
Business Workshop.[photo of students, Jada in
yellow, Ollie in white, 2nd row]
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REPORT on
LANDFARE
2001, the annual Lisbon Avenue Neighborhood
(including Washington Park and Walnut Hill), Saturday
August 11th
- The Neighborhood College booth [photo],
making its debut, had a lot of visitors and got
high marks.
- The three courses to be
offered at the Community Justice Center (first 3
courses listed above) had 45 sign-ups between
them.
- Two of the several
suggested workshops sparked much interest
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Coordinator's
Report on the Fall 2001
Startup
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your hard drive!
Then open Adobe Acrobat Reader,
and from there open the file
Coordinators2001Report.pdf
from your hard drive.
