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Is it really a hostile community or is it a community reacting with hostility?

Bang the Table

In the context of community engagement, we’re sometimes asked how to deal with hostile communities. As with so many things, prevention is better than cure: it’s unlikely that the community was hostile before the issue was imposed on them. Community outrage assessment. Components of Outrage.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

153A-255 states: “Each county shall provide social service programs pursuant to Chapter 108A and Chapter 111 and may otherwise undertake, sponsor, organize, engage in, and support other social service programs intended to further the health, welfare, education, employment, safety, comfort, and convenience of its citizens” (emphasis added).