West Central Neighborhood Partnership
The West Central Neighborhood Partnership is a collaborative neighborhood revitalization project between Whitworth University and stakeholders in the West Central neighborhood. This community engagement initiative connects students, faculty and course work to address critical-need areas identified by the West Central neighborhood organizations and residents. Students engage in activities to address:
- Workforce development and job training
- Job creation and retention through business development, and
- Neighborhood revitalization through the development and adoption of a neighborhood plan to address poverty, housing, community services and facilities within the West Central Neighborhood.
Students engage in community development through service-learning and the Co-Curricular Service-Learning programs. Student service-learning projects consist of:
- Asset mapping of human/social service agencies within the neighborhood
- Conducting interviews of agency representatives to determine services offered
- Conducting business surveys
- Assisting neighborhood business associations
- Assistance with the coordination of the neighborhood planning process