Kwesi Brookins – Page 3 – Engaging Communities

Author: Kwesi Brookins

Dr. Brookins holds a joint appointment in Psychology and Africana Studies and is the former Director of Africana Studies and the Africa Project at North Carolina State University. His research focuses primarily on Community Psychology (broadly) and more specifically on interventions designed to promote psychological health and development for youth and adults; sustainable community development models; and community-university partnerships that privilege community needs.

SE Raleigh Promise

Posted onOctober 8, 2016

Engaging Communities is beginning work with SE Raleigh Promise on development of a community site off Rock Quarry Road and the I-40 Beltline. The plan calls for several partnerships and projects and includes an additional focus on community revitalization in the area. You Read More …

Creating an Ultimate Community Partnership

Posted onApril 19, 2016April 19, 2016

https://oe.ncsu.edu/headlines/creating-an-ultimate-community-partnership/ The following is excerpted from this article written by Erin Kidd. The road between Raleigh and Rutherford County may have gotten shorter as educators and staff from NC State University toured parts of Rutherford and Polk counties as part Read More …

What a prime example of Placemaking

Posted onSeptember 21, 2015October 8, 2016

The SPARKcon 2015 festival in downtown Raleigh just completed. I’ve been fortunate to attend each one, I think, since 2006. That’s around the same time the development in Downtown really began to kick in and this event is a prime Read More …