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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Honoring Augusta Baseball Coach Jerry Hunter for caring about our inner city youth: W. K. Kellogg Foundation New Tools New Visions 2 (NTNV2) sponsored a youth baseball camp at Paine College with Jerry Hunter as coach

Honoring Augusta Coach Jerry Hunter for caring about inner city youth: W. K. Kellogg Foundation New Tools New Visions 2 (NTNV2) sponsor a youth baseball camp at Paine College





New Tools New Visions 2 (NTNV2) in Augusta, Georgia: Finding healthy outlets and activities for inner city youth and others facing social inequalities by addressing issues of environmental health, violence, health equity, and social justice

NTNV2 is a Paine College/Community Partnership funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation

NTNV was the primary sponsor of a baseball camp for inner city youth in the summer of 2010 organized by amazing and outstanding Augusta Coach Jerry Hunter.
The Jerry Hunter Baseball Camp for middle school and elementary school kids included "inner city youth from Augusta area housing projects," said Rev. Terence A. Dicks, an Augusta activist and the NTNV2 Community Liaison and Steering Committee chair and New Tools for Healthy People 2020.

"We need more projects like the Coach Jerry Hunter's baseball camp for our children - to give them something to do" during the long, hot summers in Augusta, said Rev. Dicks, who is hoping to help start more projects for Augusta area youth because they are targets for greedy drug dealers and have too much time on their hands if not involved in extracurricular activities.


Coach Hunter "is a very enterprising young educator and a Paine College Alumni," Dicks said.

Coach Hunter was the boy's baseball coach (2007-2010) at Lucy C. Laney High School in Augusta and then became the celebrated head coach of the high school boy's basketball team - leading the team to its first class AA state championship in 2012.

"It's a Mother's Day gift to Miss Laney, from us," said the modest Wildcats coach Jerry Hunter in an interview with an Augusta newspaper following the March 11, 2012 state championship victory.

Coach Hunter was honoring the school's famous and beloved namesake:
Post Civil War African American Educator, Reformer, and Social Activist Lucy Craft Laney - who established a school for African American children in Augusta and was a huge inspiration to many of her students including (Mary McLeod Bethune) a future advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR).

Coach Hunter stepped down as the school's basketball coach in 2013 to spend more time focusing on his family.

A 1997 Paine College graduate who lettered in basketball, Coach Hunter was a member of the 1994 basketball team that won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular season title and advanced to the NCAA Division II Tournament.
In 2011, Coach Hunter's son LaTron (3rd base) became the first Wildcats baseball player to ever get a full athletic scholarship signing with Southern Union State Community College in Alabama.

Hoping his son's scholarship will encourage more youth to play baseball, Coach Hunter said LaTron showed Augusta athletes it's possible to earn a scholarship in sports other than basketball and football.

Hunter's three seasons as head basketball coach for Laney (77-15 record/84 percent success) included three Final Four appearances and the 2012 state championship.








Coach Jerry Hunter:
Paine College Class of '97 is among those honored in June 2012 by Augusta Sports Council
http://www.paineathletics.com/news/2012/6/4/GEN_0604122721.aspx
http://paineathletics.com/mobile/index.aspx?story=261


Lucy C. Laney High School

Educator, Reformer, Social Activist Lucy Craft Laney (April 13, 1854-October 24, 1933), an early African American educator who established a school for African American children in August, GA:


Coach Jerry Hunter

Laney Coach Jerry Hunter has stepped down as basketball coach March 18, 2013
Laney routs Manchester for its first state title
Laney 67, Manchester 53
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Team and Coach Jerry Hunter honored by city of Augusta after 2012 state championship victory
2012 stories in Augusta newspaper about student helped by coach Hunter
Problem child : Laney High star athlete overcomes odds to graduate - and gives praise to coach Jerry Hunter:
Fostering success: Laney star made home on basketball court
Jerry Hunter's students/players go on to acclaim:

New Tools New Visions 2 (NTNV2) in Augusta, Georgia:


NTNV2 is a Paine College/Community Partnership
Funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation

NTNV2 is a community collaborative organization built on Community Based Participatory Research principles

NTNV organizes Augusta churches in public, celebratory activities.
Pastors, Ministers and other Religious leaders can publicly commit their churches to the Annual Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS.

Encourage HIV/AIDS education, promoting HIV testing and organizing against stigma.

The group's intention to serve as a vehicle for increasing the level of public awareness in the Augusta Black church community.

NTNV 2 assessment by Dr. Kimberly M. Coleman, MPH
Consultant and paid contractor for the Kellogg Foundation
11-8-10 in Denver, CO
138th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association
"Lessons learned as a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) technical assistance coordinator - partnered with four rural, African American Communities" in Albany, Augusta, Fort Valley, Savannah.

Dr. Kimberly M. Coleman, PHD, MPH, CHES
In 2008, she was awarded a $100,000 contract from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation as the Technical Assistance Coordinator for the "New Tools, New Visions 2" project





Albany State University:


Albany, Georgia Tools for Change, Inc.
P.O. Box 3841
Albany, GA 31706-3841

Danielle Blackwell, BA
Facilitator

229-255-0502


NTNV2 Purposes:

Connect four rural GA communities surrounding Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with faculty resources to develop a community-based participatory research (CBPR) infrastructure to address issues of environmental health, violence, health equity, and social justice.

NTNV2 Project Goals:

Help community residents to resolve identified problems, and create change in public policy, and quality of life using several public health-based strategies to engage community residents and partners with researchers and/or HBCUs to develop solutions for each targeted community's health issue among local residents

Community Grantees:

Four Southern Georgia community organizations were selected after submitting proposals to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Harambee House, Inc. and Citizens for Environmental Justice

Kellogg Foundation





Participants define strategies to eliminate obstacles from and creating good policies for African Americans to develop healthy families.

Using the Healthy People 2020 objectives include dynamic interaction between building healthier family structures and eradicating obstacles to healthier Black families.

While myriad areas of health disparities will be addressed, special attention will be paid to four focus areas:
Violence as a public health issue

HIV/AIDS

Mental Health Disparities

Under-utilization of Preventative Care

Presenters take a proactive stance in addressing critical matters corresponding to the creation of stronger Black Families and improved health conditions.
Presenters include outside experts and the Augusta community, Paine College faculty/students plus reps of the Medical College of Georgia health system.

NTNV2 Augusta is a partner of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Minority Health's National Partnership for Action (NPA) to End Health Disparities, and a member of the national Healthy People 2020 Consortium.

More info:

Dr. Adeleri Onisegun
NTNV2 Project Director
Paine College Dept. of Psychology
706-821-8281

Rev. Terence A. Dicks
NTNV2 Community Liaison
Chair, Steering Committee
706-799-5598

United Methodist News Service story March 2008 by Linda Green




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Friday, January 27, 2012

“Claiming A Street Named King” Project : Augusta, Georgia study shows areas that need economic assistance – and that’s the same issue in many American cities that have streets named for civil rights leaders

"Claiming A Street Named King"


“Claiming A Street Named King” Project study in Augusta, Georgia that shows areas that need economic assist...

The “Claiming A Street Named King” project is the vision of the past Georgia Clients Council President Rev. Terence A. Dick of Augusta, Georgia.

The above Power Point presentation is the result of a study in Augusta, Georgia about a street named for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It began with research in Athens and Augusta (Georgia) through the University Of Georgia School Of Environmental Design.

Research was led by Dr. Mary Anne Akers in collaboration with Georgia Legal Services Program, Georgia State Trade Association of Non-profit Developers (G-STAND) and Neighborhood Works America, INC.

About The Project:

Derek Alderman, a cultural geographer at East Carolina University, has done extensive research on Martin Luther King Jr. roadways and was a key advisor for the Clients Council and stakeholders.

There are over 900 streets named after Martin Luther King in the United States.

There are also a number of other countries that have named streets in honor of Martin Luther King.

Many of the streets named in honor of Martin Luther King are in beautiful well-manicured neighborhoods, downtown business districts, interstate and highways.

But too many Martin Luther King Jr. thorough-ways are in poor, crime infested dilapidated communities.

"To name any street for King is to invite an accounting of how the street makes good on King's promise or mocks it" states Jonathan Tilove author of "Along Martin Luther King"

The “Claiming A Street Named King” project is the Georgia Clients Council CED effort to make good on King's promise one community at a time.

The “Claiming A Street Named King” project is more than building new houses or rehabbing homes.

This community economic development project is a citizen initiated economic development strategy which seeks to revitalize the economy of low-moderate income and marginal neighborhoods both urban and rural for the benefit of the whole community.

Its principal objective is to assist consumers in becoming producers, users to become providers, employees to employers.

The CED utilizes entrepreneurial methods similar to traditional business methods.
The Beloved Community:

This project is the Georgia Clients Council's vision of the Beloved Community - one street at a time.

What is the Beloved Community?

The Beloved Community is Martin Luther King's global vision in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth.

In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger and homelessness will not be tolerated because international standards of human indecency will not allow it.

Racism and all forms of discrimination, bigotry and prejudice will be replaced by an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood.

In the Beloved Community, international disputes will be resolve by peaceful conflict resolution and reconciliation for adversaries, instead of military power. Love and trust will triumph over fear and hatred. Peace with justice will prevail over war and military conflict.

King's Beloved Community was not devoid of interpersonal group or international conflict.

Instead he recognized that conflict was inevitable part of human experience as people moved toward the idea of "positive peace" of social equality rather than the "negative peace" of maintaining social order simply for the sake of order.

He believed that conflicts could be resolved peacefully and adversaries could be reconciled through mutual, determined commitment to nonviolence.

In a July 13, 1966 article in Christian Century Magazine, Dr. King affirmed the ultimate goal inherent in the quest for the Beloved Community:

"I do not think of political power as an end. Neither do I think of economic power as an end. They are ingredients in the objective that we seek in life. And I think that end or that objective is truly brotherly society, the creation of the beloved community."

“The Claiming A Street Named King” (CASNK) project provides a way of grounding and enhancing the idea of a Beloved Community in the spaces, places and streets in which we live.

The project seeks to evaluate the many roadways named for Dr. King and expose the forms of racism, discrimination, and inequality still found along and near these streets.

Our intention is to use community-based research and critical public dialogue to understand what social, economic/development, environmental, and health challenges face communities along Dr. King's streets as well as think about concrete ways of improving the quality of life in these communities.

You can read more about Derek Alderman's project by downloading the presentation here.

Athens, Georgia:

The first meeting of the Claiming a Street Named King (CASNK) project was held in Athens, Georgia.

It was presented by Terence Dicks, former president of the Georgia Clients Council.

Present were:

Alvin Sheats, Director of the Hancock Community Development Center

Phyllis Holmen, Director of Georgia Legal Services Program

Ovita Thornton, Director of the Georgia Clients Council

Dr. Maryanne A. Akers, University of Georgia Professor

After much discussion, Dr. Akers took the role of developing the research using her School of Environmental Design graduate and under graduate students.

Not only did college students do the research but Georgia Clients Council members took part in the community and classroom course, but "Sitting in a college classroom motivated me to go back to school and get my GED and now I am taking classes at Athens Technical College," states Juanita Johnson.
Augusta, Georgia:

Collaborating with Marshall Crawford of Neighbor Works America and Kate Little of GSTAND helped produce the Augusta report. Georgia students interviewed and collected stories about Martin Luther King Street in Augusta, Georgia.

Senior citizens at the Mays Senior reflected on the changes they had seen on MLK.

Mr. Brown talked about the beautiful yards that used to be on MLK. Students interviewed business owners and local politicians on MLK about the how the area had deteriorated.

Tracomedia recorded these personal stories.

Livable Streets:

"Livable Streets" is an increasingly important theme in development and planning circles. Underlying this theme are a few key issues.

First, some streets and roads are more livable places than others and hence more or less supportive of a certain quality of life.

Second, livability is a broad concept that addresses the environmental, social, economic, and health conditions found along streets.

Third, livability is a human right and connected to improving people's wellbeing, including the poor and historically marginalized. The concept of livable streets recognizes that there is an assortment of users of roads from a variety of walks of life.

Fourth, the livability of streets is not permanently set but can be altered through good planning, which begins with an assessment of the conditions, problems, and resources found along streets.

NLADA Presentation by Georgia Clients Council:

Georgia Clients Council presented the Claiming A Street Named King project at the National Legal Aid Defense Association (NLADA) in November 2010.

There were approximately twelve cities from across the country represented-as far as west as California, as far north as Massachusetts and as far south as Alabama.

When asked to describe their MLK streets some of the comments were crime infested, poor black communities, public housing area etc.
Jonathon Tilove, author of "Along Martin Luther King", says "To name any street for King is to invite an accounting of how the street makes good on King's promise or mocks it."

Mr. Tilove has been directly involved in the “Claiming A Street Named King” project.

(Augusta, Georgia) - A longtime community and civil rights activist, Rev. Terence Dicks of Augusta, GA created the “Claiming A Street Named King” project.

The above is from a Power Point presentation explaining an economic study of a street named after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Augusta, GA.

“Claiming A Street Named King” is an initiative Mr. Dicks started during his tenure as chair of Georgia Clients Council.

In hopes of spurring “community and economic development,” the project is about “taking back the street by building businesses and homes on the crime-ridden abandoned boulevards that bear the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”

An advocate for the low to moderate income people in Georgia, Rev. Dicks hopes to help others “improve the condition of boulevards named after Martin Luther King, Jr. across Georgia” and hopes it will turn into a nationwide effort.

Mr. Dicks wants “to see those streets given a second chance with the support of the Georgia Legal Services Program and supporters like author Jonathon Tilove.”

Author Jonathon Tilove “wrote the book that inspired me” to start the “Claiming A Street Named King” project.

Mr. Tilove wrote the book “Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America's Main Street.”

While the “Claiming A Street Named King” project is still in the planning phase, Mr. Dicks hopes those interested with call, email or message his internet sites like Twitter and Facebook.

The project is also receiving support from Professor Derek H. Alderman, a research fellow at East Carolina University.

“Dr. Alderman is a geographer who has helped us to work on a plan for the redevelopment of the Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards,” Rev. Dicks said. “He is an expert on how to develop those types of properties.”

Labeled by the media as a “King Street naming expert,” Dr. Alderman has written numerous formal papers and co-wrote a book about the naming of streets for the slain civil rights leader entitled “Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory.”

Mr. Dicks first heard Dr. Alderman during the Tavis Smiley radio talk show.

The 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination is only two years away.

“Some are and were really beautiful but vast majority were in really bad shape,” Mr. Dicks said.

“There was a lot of hope around those streets and what he did for me is he reminded me of why we name those streets for Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Mr. Dicks said.

“And the good feelings we had after we named the streets,” he said “But I realized we had not claimed the streets named after Dr. King.”

“Most important reason we are doing this because we were fortunate that Dr. King lived in our lifetime,” Mr. Dicks said.

While some of today’s youth have been taught a little about Dr. King, “we are heading into the second or third generation who doesn’t know about Dr. King and his achievements,” Rev. Dicks said.

“The generation that starts it (saving Dr. King boulevards) doesn’t have to be the generation who built it,” Rev. Dicks said.

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