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Collaboration of churches and service providers — meeting the needs of older African Americans
Author(s)	Anna-Marie Madison, Brenda F McGadney
Journal title	Journal of Religious Gerontology, vol 11, no 1, 2000
Pages	pp 23-38
Source	Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
Keywords	Black people ; Living in the community ; Religion ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Services ; United States of America.
Annotation	This article describes a community outreach volunteer project designed to reach frail community-based older people. The project is an example of church and secular agency collaboration, in which the church provides leadership in volunteer recruitment, and the agency provides training and outreach activity monitoring. The church's role in this project illustrates that small and medium size African American churches can play an important role in mobilising volunteer resources and can perform a linking role in helping secular agencies to gain access to frail, hard-to-reach, low-income older people. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011023202 A
Classmark	TKE: K4: TR: QAJ: QK6: I: 7T
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