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Neighborhood
Environmental College
In
the summer of 2006, EHJC launched the Neighborhood Environmental College
(NEC). The goal of the NEC is to facilitate information exchange and community outreach about technical, social, economic,
environmental, political, and cultural factors, with a focus on chemical contamination.
Community meetings were held to solicit neighbors’ ideas about NEC curricula.
The objective of the
Neighborhood Environmental College is to organize and host short
courses, most of which are 40 clock hours in length, to learn
from and provide research information to Alton Park/Piney Woods
(AP/PW) residents about the nature and distribution of
contaminants in their community.
Course components are (click on
each to read more):
The
Neighborhood College Model is based on an organizational system
and philosophy that originated at the Grace Hill Neighborhood
Settlement "Member Organized Resource Exchange" (M.O.R.E.) and
“Neighborhood College” models in place at St. Louis, Missouri.
Facilitators are encouraged to use the "popular education" model
to empower course participants through cooperative study and
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