✦ LIBER ✦
Kiwis and kids, communities and connections: The lessons of energy express on bridging policy and community discourse
✍ Scribed by Gretchen Butera; Van O. Dempsey
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 99 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
Intervention programs for low-income children and families must work to connect the policies and practices of intervention to the communities that they intend to serve. This article describes Energy Express, a summer reading and nutrition program for children in low-income communities across the state of West Virginia. Energy Express has consistently demonstrated beneficial effects in maintaining and improving children's reading and in increasing collaboration between schools and other community organizations.
The success of the program in each community is attributed in part to the ways in which the program acknowledges and values local knowledge, the purposeful tension between centralization of planning and purpose and localization in implementation, and the understanding of the multiple meanings of community.