{{Short description|Provision of services to populations who lack access}} {{other uses}} thumb|Outreach Program for Women
'''Outreach''' is the activity of providing services to any population that might not otherwise have access to those services.<ref name="HardyKingston2010" /><ref name="Centre2009" /> A key component of outreach is that the group providing it is not stationary, but mobile; in other words, it involves meeting someone in need of an outreach service at the location where they are.<ref name="HardyKingston2010" /><ref name="Centre2009" /><ref name="dewson" /> Compared with traditional service providers, outreach services are provided closer to where people may reside, efforts are very often voluntary, and have fewer, if any, enforceable obligations. In addition to delivering services, outreach has an educational role, raising the awareness of existing services.<ref name="dewson" /> It includes identification of under-served populations and service referral and the use of outreach tools like leaflets, newsletters, advertising stalls and displays, and dedicated events. Outreach is often meant to fill in the gap in the services provided by mainstream (often governmental) services, and is often carried out by non-profit, nongovernmental organizations.<ref name="HardyKingston2010" />
== Categories == There are many different types of outreach, but they can be categorized into these four groupings: domiciliary (undertaken at individual homes), detached (undertaken in public environments and targeting individuals), peripatetic (undertaken at public or private environments and targeting organizations rather than individuals),<ref name="Rhodes1996" /> and satellite outreach (where services are provided at a dedicated site).<ref name="dewson" />
== Homeless street outreach == {{excerpt|Homeless street outreach}}
==Science outreach== {{excerpt|Science outreach}}
==See also== * Chabad outreach * Charity, Tzedakah * Community service * Kiruv * Social work
==References== <references> <ref name="Centre2009">{{cite book|author=Legal Services Research Centre|title=Reaching Further: Innovation, Access and Quality in Legal Services|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TejBySbQgeoC&pg=PA73|access-date=17 September 2012|date=30 March 2009|publisher=The Stationery Office|isbn=978-0-11-706724-0|pages=73–74}}</ref> <ref name="dewson">"[https://archive.today/20130420105257/http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/pubs/summary.php?id=dwp326 Maximising the Role of Outreach in Client Engagement]", Dewson S, Davis S, Casebourne J. Research Report DWPRR 326, Department for Work and Pensions, 2006.</ref> <ref name="HardyKingston2010">{{cite book|author1=Kate Hardy|author2=Sarah Kingston|author3=Teela Sanders|title=New Sociologies of Sex Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=toGlsIgAW8oC&pg=PA77|access-date=16 September 2012|date=16 December 2010|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-7986-8|page=77}}</ref> <ref name="Rhodes1996">{{cite book|author=Tim Rhodes|title=Outreach Work with Drug Users: Principles and Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8TdgVBbiLrcC&pg=PA25|access-date=17 September 2012|year=1996|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=978-92-871-3110-2|pages=25–26}}</ref> </references>
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