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outreach

outreach

118 4.6
Help or services offered to people who cannot easily get them
  • noun
  • /ˈaʊtˌriːtʃ/
translation icon : extensión
  • The organization focuses on outreach to help underprivileged children receive educational support.
  • an outreach program
  • outreach workers
  • community outreach

And this type of outreach and finding instructors.

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Examples

  • For these programs to be effective, more efforts at outreach to ethnic and immigrant communities must be made.

    Academic text (1991)
  • We're doing some calling and some outreach, outreach projects with different organizations.

  • Here is their outreach to men.

  • I'm still running the outreach program.

  • Mental health crisis intervention and outreach teams are possible in large cities.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Many agencies, however, did not believe that they possessed the capacity to provide outreach to this group.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Outreach worker training was led by US outreach workers familiar with the interventions.

    Academic text (2011)
  • All proceeds go directly to the homeless outreach.

  • The third thing I would say is young people respond to the church's outreach to the poor.

  • The public health care sector also should enhance outreach to vulnerable immigrant groups.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

community outreach
vsoutreach
7 2.8

Work to help people in a local area by offering services or information

is broader, offering help to anyone who lacks access not only locals

Antonyms

256 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

Compounds

Work to help people in a local area by offering services or information

How Much

campaign
2.7
assistance
947 1.0
outreach
118 4.6
contact
826 1.2

Surface Forms

outreach singular
outreaches plural

Morphology

outreach = reach (semi-transparent) = out + reach

The prefix 'out-' suggests extending beyond, but the specific meaning of providing services or support is not directly derived from 'reach'.

Etymology

Outreach comes from the parts out- ('beyond' or 'outside') and reach ('to stretch'). Picture reaching your hand over a fence to give help, so outreach means the act of reaching out to help people who might not otherwise get help.