Students and staff from the Graduate School of Social Work and Research are currently developing a community survey in conjunction with the Inter Agency Council of Norristown in an effort to identify the current capacity of ICN members.
Recent Projects
- 15 Bryn Mawr College students are partnered with 13 community organizations in Norristown through the Effective Grantsmanship Seminar. (Read More)
- In the past year a number of classes and students have had their Praxis field placements in Norristown.
- Fall 2007:
- September 29th: Bryn Mawr continued to sponsor a children's arts and crafts booth at the 2nd annual Norristown Fall Festival at Elmwood Park.
- October 24: BMC students and staff participate in the 13th annual Montgomery County Literacy Network's Corporate Spelling Bee. One of Bryn Mawr's three teams present won the bee!
- October 27: CPIA, in partnership with the BMC Women's Center, raised $864 and for a third consecutive year participated in the Montgomery County Women's Center's "Unmask the Abuse Walk-A-Thon" to raise awareness about domestic violence.
- BMC students continue the partnership with Salvation Army in Norristown at the after-school program twice weekly.
Ten students from Literacies and Education, Educational Psychology and Special Education are working at Gotwals Elementary School in various 1st-5th grade classrooms.
- Klaralee Charlton is working with Jenneen Flamer in the College Career Center at Norristown Area High School as her Praxis III placement.
- Rebecca DiBrienza is doing her field placement for Literacies and Education at ACLAMO teaching adult ESL and pre-GED courses.
- Spring 2007:
- The Multi-Cultural Education class partnered with the Anti-Defamation League and Norristown Area School District to place students at Norristown Area High School, Eisenhower Middle School, and Gotwals Elementary working with each school’s No Place for Hate campaign activities.
- Five students from the Women’s Mental Health course worked with the Forteniters Club. Their work culminated in a Healthy Living Fair, which provided information about exercise and diet, mindfulness, coping with stress, loneliness, and depression.
- Three students from the Women’s Mental Health course worked in the ESL classes and after-school program at ACLAMO. They developed a workshop for students in the ESL classes about ways to handle stress.
- Fall 2006:
- Janique Parrott taught ESL at ACLAMO as her fieldwork for her Praxis III course, Methods and Approaches to Teaching ESL.
- Laura Severance did her Praxis III fieldwork for Women’s Reproductive Health in the 21st Century at Planned Parenthood.
- Laura Cyckowski did her Praxis III fieldwork for Culture as Disability at Hedwig House.
- Inez Steigerwald, from the Empowering Learners course, Ileana Garcia, from the Citizenship and Migration course, and Jane Shaw, from the Literacies and Education course, did their Praxis fieldwork in the ESL Program at ACLAMO.
- December 16th: BMC students volunteered for a second consecutive year at the ACLAMO holiday celebration; volunteers helped distribute 2000 gifts to Norristown families.
- October 28th: For a second consecutive year, BMC students participate in the “Unmask the Abuse Walk-A-Thon” to raise awareness about domestic violence in Norristown in support of The Montgomery County Women’s Center.
- September 23rd: Norristown Fall Festival: BMC students and staff sponsor an arts and crafts booth at the 1st annual Fall Festival.
- 12 graduate students were placed in Norristown for the 2006-2007 academic year.
- Students and staff from Bryn Mawr College participated in the Montgomery County Literacy Networks 12th Annual Corporate Spelling Bee.
- BMC students have begun volunteering with the Salvation Army’s after school programs.
- Students and staff from the Graduate School of Social Work and Research are recently developed and administered a survey in conjunction with the Inter Agency Council of Norristown in an effort to identify the current capacity of ICN members. This effort was in response to an explicitly articulate need from the ICN to understand the ability of local provider to meet the challenges in the borough. Ultimately this information will aid the ICN’s collaborative efforts in Norristown to best respond to the needs of the community.
