Can Community Outreach Ever Be Harmful?

Obviously, all the "what I'm actually doing posts" will have to wait until I get home to Jersey, which is very very soon!  Here is something I wrote for a forum entry for class, that I thought might be interesting for y'all.

As I'm wrapping up my time (I leave Saturday!  Oh my gosh!)  I have many thoughts running through my head.  But one of the things that has been most interesting for me is being able to observe and interact with some many types of outreach in Memphis.  It has given me the opportunity to really examine the methods, but more than that I've come to realize that sustainable success is really dictated by the attitude that one brings to the work.