We are graduate students at the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston. We are conducting a community needs assessment and community action intervention for Rusk Elementary and the surrounding community that primarily resides in the zip code 77003. We need input from the community! We would like to hold a civic meeting open to the public that will act as a focus group where we will discuss the needs and strengths of your community in order to create a relevent and helpful intervention. If you would like to participate we would love to have you! The more input and guidence we have, the better. Please email penelopeut@hotmail.com if you are interested. We would like to hold the meeting before March 18, 2007. We look forward to hearing from you.