JBJ Management August 2022 Newsletter

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JBJ Public Engagement in a Neighborhood Near You

The JBJ Management Public Engagement Team has entered its busiest time of year managing clients’ community meetings and neighborhood canvassing efforts. This summer, the team is providing creative outreach to clients in typically hard-to-reach neighborhoods throughout North Texas.

Dallas County is also providing a flood planning study in the Inland Port area and the JBJ team will canvass the local businesses and surrounding neighborhoods to keep the community up-to- date on the project. They will also organize three community meetings and create a website to provide information to the community.

for a variety of outreach for Dallas County including PrEP awareness, small business assistance, rental assistance, ending HIV in Dallas County, STD testing, flu and COVID-19 vaccinations, and tuberculosis throughout Dallas County. We canvass and hand out collateral materials at apartment complexes and businesses around the pop- up clinics. We also inform the community about free resources that are available. To date we have successfully coordinated over 30 pop up healthcare events.

Our Public Engagement Team has been canvassing for the City of Dallas in Joppa, Tenth Street, and Five Mile, to promote a Neighborhood Revitalization Program that could provide up to $100,000 in-home repairs per home to qualified candidates in this area. JBJ is also planning community meetings to help city officials and experts assist residents with their applications. The team provides outreach

The City of Terrell is redesigning its town square and creating new quiet zones and has retained our Public Engagement team to canvass local businesses and the community to keep them aware of changes. The team will organize three virtual/in person community meetings to get community input and create a webpage where citizens can provide feedback and get information about the project.

Fall Registration at Jarvis

Registration is now open for Jarvis University Adult Education and Certification Programs at the Hawkins and Dallas locations . In-person and online classes are available. The Adult Education Program offers business administration, criminal justice, and religion classes under bachelor’s degrees, and criminal justice, general studies, and religion classes under associate degrees. The Certification Programs include the National Educational Certification Programs, which are eight weeks, WIOA/TAA approved and classes start every month. The Certificates of Completion include Medical Terminology and Medical Essential Soft Skills. For more information click on https://www.jarvis.edu/adult-continuing- education/, call (903) 730-4890 Ext 2904, or contact Dr. Dorothy Langley at dlangley@jarvis.edu .

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