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Agenda
•Goal & Strategic Planning Process
•Survey Results
•Obstacles / Barrier Identification
Goal
•Next Meeting – October 7th Gro
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Goal:To help our community understand and accept all cultures and to engage each other genuinely. • Provide an emphasis on bilingual and
multicultural knowledge, learning and cultural competencies for everyone. • Promote opportunities for learning
that reflect the current population with open enrollment policies that target English speaking employers and residents of all ages.
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Cultural Engagement & Understanding
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Engagement: emotional involvement or attachment, to interlock with, to mesh with, to bring together or interlock, to induce to participate
Understanding: to be thoroughly familiar with, sympathetically aware of other people’s feelings, tolerant, compassionate, mental process of a person who comprehends
Strategic Planning Process:• Identify Assets • Identify Target Audience• Identify Obstacles/Barriers •Education and Assessment •Goals Prioritize •Planning: who, what, where, when, why, how & funding•Action
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Current Assets/Resources in our Community
Adult
Educ
ation
(11)
Non p
rofit
s and
Chu
rche
s (10
)
Child E
duca
tion
(9)
Busines
s (6)
Gov't
(3)
Med
ia (2
)
Tran
spor
tatio
n (1
)0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Series1
Adult Education
CCC
Literacy Council
Public Library
Child Education
GIPS
Language Project
Public Library
Business & Governme
nt
Chamber of Commerce
Downtown GI
City Budget
County Budget
Legal Aid
Nonprofits
Multicultural Coalition
YMCA/YWCA
Hope Harbor
Nebraska Arts Council
Nebraska Humanities
United Way
Crisis Program
Lutheran Family
Services
Boy Scouts/ Girls Scouts
Field House
Stuhr Museum
Latino Network
Cultural Engagement/Understanding
Assets Breakdown
Target Audience Summary
Evey
one
(10)
Imm
igra
nts (
5)
Hispan
ic/ M
exica
n (4
)
Suda
nese
/Som
ali/ Et
hiop
ian
(4)
Minor
ity B
usines
ses (
4)
Imm
igra
nt C
hildre
n (3
)
Native
Am
erica
n (1
)
Vietn
ames
e (1
)
Minor
ity Lea
ders
(1)
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
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8
9
10
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Community Continuum
Community
U.S. Born
Predominant Residents
- English Fluency- Basic Needs
Achieved- Aware of
Community Resources
- Intercultural Education
- Varying Levels of Cultural
Competency
Cross-Cultural Residents
Immigrant
Cross-Cultural
Residents- English Fluency- Varying Levels of
Community Resources- Advocacy
and Education
Assimilating Residents
Residence- Developing
English -Knows their
Culture
Citizenship- Citizenship
status- Inquisitive
- Comfortable in Community
Newcomer Residents- Basic Needs
- Communication Services
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Barriers / Obstacles:
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• Bias/prejudice• Ignorance• Language• Multi-generational poverty• Access / knowledge to (of)
basic needs• Engagement opportunities
(lack there of) – social • Housing --- segregated
(insulated) neighborhoods; economics
• Cultural separation in schools
• Representation of diversity (govt,
• Media • Economics
• acceptance / comfort • Job opportunities • College prep. Opportunities • Parent Education • Generational assumptions
(knowledge / acceptance)• Collective vs independent
thinking
Wrap-up:
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Identified AssetsIdentified Target AudienceIdentified Obstacles•Summarize Obstacles•Community Assessment/Education•Goals•Prioritize Goals•Plan•Action
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Web & Social Media
www.growgrandisland.com
E.N. Thompson Activism Forumenthompson.unl.edu/
Next Meeting ….
Wednesday, October 7th
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