Focus on Inclusiveness

Partnership in Building a Total Community

Dr. J. Vernon McGee

John Vernon McGee was born in Hillsboro, Texas, in 1904. Dr. McGee remarked, "When I was born and the doctor gave me the customary whack, my mother said that I let out a yell that could be heard on all four borders of Texas!" His Creator well knew that he would need a powerful voice to deliver a powerful message.

Dr. McGee's greatest pastorate was at the historic, Church of the Open Door in downtown Los Angeles, where he served from 1949 to 1970. There he began a daily radio broadcast called "High Noon Bible Class" on a single station.

Dr. McGee began teaching Thru the Bible in 1967. After retiring from the pastorate, he set up radio headquarters in Pasadena, and the radio ministry expanded rapidly. Today the program airs on over 400 stations each day in the United States and Canada, is heard in more than 100 languages around the world and is broadcast worldwide via the Internet.

Definition• Public participation is a political principle or practice, and may also

recognized as a right (right to public participation). The terms public participation may be used interchangeably with the concept or practice of stakeholder engagement and/or popular participation.

• Generally public participation seeks and facilitates the involvement of those potentially affected by or interested in a decision. The principle of public participation holds that those who are affected by a decision have a right to be involved in the decision-making process. Public participation implies that the public's contribution will influence the decision.[1]

• Public participation may be regarded as a way of empowerment and as vital part of democratic governance.[1]

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Roadmap to achieving inclusiveness

• The lines of the triangle serve as the halo that surrounds the

concepts placed inside the triangle as the methodology in obtaining

inclusiveness. Each line is of equal importance in fulfilling the

goal within its boundaries.

Adams County Youth Initiative

Safe Schools/Healthy Students

Community Participants

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Disconnect• What we presently

have as oppose to what we require to make the project

work. Three separate entities in a disconnect mode.

Why Not?

Maslow’s Hierarchy of NeedsTheory of Psychology (1943),

Still exist as a theory today 65 years later, why?

Primary Critics• While Maslow's theory was regarded as an improvement over previous

theories of personality and motivation, it had its detractors. For example, in their extensive review of research which is dependent on Maslow's theory, Wahba and Bridgewell[5] found little evidence for the ranking of needs Maslow described, or even for the existence of a definite hierarchy at all. Conducted in 2002, a recent study forwards this line of thought, claiming that "the hierarchy of needs is nothing more than a fool's daydream; there is no possible way to classify ever-changing needs as society changes"[6]. Chilean economist and philosopher Manfred Max Neef has also argued fundamental human needs are non-hierarchical, and are ontologically universal and invariant in nature - part of the condition of being human; poverty, he argues, is the result of any one of these needs being frustrated, denied or unfulfilled.

Mind, Body and Spirit

Body

Spirit

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Measure (Mathematics)

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Depth (Volume)

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armo

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(tempo)

Articulation (dynamics – how it is conveyed)

Government – AmericaChecks and Balances *

• * Key Word - BALANCES

Judicial

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Legislative

Universal LawRules for governing Human Conduct

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Applicability

Translation

Planet EarthStages of Matter

Solid

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Gases

Human Body (Mass)

Liquids

Gases

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The TrinityMankind's Highest Authority

Fath

erSon

Holy Ghost or Spirit