‘Little Earth’ Archives
Little Earth News
The Strong Mind Strong Body Foundation’s Youth Community Journalism Institute led an intergenerational community journalism project at the Harvest Moon Block Party at Cedar Field Park on September 21. These excerpts are from the resulting Little Earth News, a handwritten newspaper created by community members to celebrate victories, voices, and solutions from within the community. Learn more about Little Earth News and the Youth Journalism Institute at http://www.strongmindstrongbody.org/a-brighter-future-for-communities-everywhere. I made a treat box for my 8th birthday. My granpa came and surprised me. He had all the tools. We started to bild. And we were done by the end of the day. The next day we painted. The treat box was going to be pink and blue. It had a water bowl and a place to put the treat and many dogs came to it every day. Sports/ClubsIf you don’t do a sport or club. I would suggest joining one. It gives you a community outside of school. It can help you make [...]
Little Earth Partnership Redefines Research
By SARAH McVICAR Reprinted with permission from Metropolitan State University”™s Institute for Community Engagement and Scholarship https://littleearth.org/scout In 2015, Metropolitan State Human Services Professor Roberta Gibbons and residents of the Little Earth community embarked on a rare, shared project that would impact them both in fundamental and enduring ways. Like Little Earth itself ”“ the only Native-preference Section 8 housing community in the nation ”“ the initiative was unique from the start. It began with a proposal for a small research grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to gather data about the drivers and causes of violence at Little Earth ”“ and potentially secure a subsequent larger grant to fund community programming. At the heart of the project was the unique way in which it embodied its model of Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) ”“ what the Healthy City program defines as a [...]
