Contribution of North Texas Korean Nurse Association COVID-19 Task Force Team to Promote the Health of Local Korean Immigrant Community Amid the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 505
Author(s):  
Kyoung Eun Lee ◽  
Mikyoung A. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
North Texas

Asian Americans: Koreans

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoonsun Choi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Economic Adaptation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Work Interventions ◽  
New Generation

This overview of the Korean immigrant community includes a brief history of immigration and a review of the distinct characteristics that have helped establish a strong and fairly successful community. It also describes a new generation of young adults who are distinct from their parents in their cultural, social, and economic adaptation. In addition, the challenges and difficulties that the community and its families may face are discussed along with implications for social work interventions.

scholarly journals GODORT Program Committee

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Psyck
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
The State ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Government Information ◽  
North Texas ◽  
University Of North Texas ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Information Preservation

With the dedicated work of the Preservation Working Group, GODORT wasable to present two programs at Annual 2017. The first one, “Government Information Preservation: Collections and Collaboration,” was cosponsored by the Federal Documents Task Force and featured discussions about collaborative approaches to collecting andpreserving government information in all formats. Susanne Caro moderated the discussion, and Anne Harrison (FEDLINK), Roberta Gebhardt (Montana Historical Society), Robbie Sittel (University of North Texas), and James R. Jacobs (Stanford University) presented on projects at the state and national levels.

Korean entrepreneurs in Kansas City metropolitan area

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoung-Ho Shin
Keyword(s):  
Kansas City ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
City Area ◽  
Business Transactions

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examines the pattern of linkage between Korean immigrant business community in the Kansas City area and global forces by focusing on how an immigrant community has transformed and reacted to the global trends of business transaction. Design/methodology/approach – The data on Korean entrepreneurs in the Kansas City area was obtained from the semi-structured and informal interviews with Korean community leaders, Korean businessmen and customers who use Korean grocery markets in the Kansas City area. This study also utilizes documents on Korean and Asian ethnic community and neighborhood relations in news media. It analyzes entrepreneurial strategy and business transactions of Korean immigrant community and its relations to global trends using the Directory of Korean Entrepreneurs of Greater Kansas City Area in different points of time: 1990, 2006 and 2011. Findings – The types of businesses observed in the Directory of Korean Business in Greater Kansas City area have changed significantly over time (see Table I). The number of businesses has increased from 181 in 1990 to 281 in 2006 and 197 in 2011, and the business types became diversified from 29 in 1990 to 38 in 2006 and 36 in 2011. The grocery stores and restaurants in community were adapting to global tends to survive by upscaling and diversifying items and targeting customers. Beauty aid supply business remains solid by maintaining globalized business transactions of purchasing and distribution. Research limitations/implications – Based on interviews, this study needs to be extended to other Midwestern cities and Chicago, as a global city, to objectively examine the mode of intersection between globalness and ethnic locality within immigrant communities. Originality/value – This study explores specifically how a transnational community of Korean entrepreneurs in the Kansas City is reacting and adjusting to global trends by probing the strategies of each business segments of grocery store, restaurants and beauty aid supply business.

Report of the ADEA president's task force on the Surgeon General's report on oral health. American Dental Education Association

2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 708-714
Author(s):  
PJ Ferrillo ◽  
KB Chance ◽  
RI Garcia ◽  
WE Kerschbaum ◽  
JJ Koelbl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Dental Education ◽  
Education Association

Hot Topics: A Report From the Division 4 Task Force on Fluency Services in the Schools

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Lisa Scott-Trautman ◽  
Kristin A. Chmela
Keyword(s):  
Task Force
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