telling our stories, sharing responsibility: youth-adult collaboration for immigrant integration...
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Telling Our Stories, Sharing Responsibility: Youth-Adult Collaboration for Immigrant IntegrationRedwood City 2020 – Redwood City Together Initiative and Immigrant Youth Action Team
Silicon Valley Community Foundation – Immigrant Integration Action ForumFebruary 1, 2012
Welcome!
Presenters:
Lilly Campos, Adult Ally and Community Volunteer
Itzel Díaz, Sequoia High School Student & DREAM Club Co-president
Javier Guzmán, Sequoia High School Student
Sheryl Muñoz-Bergman, International Institute of the Bay Area
Jane Slater, Sequoia High School Teacher & DREAM Club Faculty Advisor
About Us
Two Redwood City 2020 community collaboration efforts coming together:
Redwood City Together – Redwood City Together is a collaboration of caring community members and organizations working to build a stronger, inclusive, and welcoming community.
Immigrant Youth Action Team – helps increase the visibility, actions of and resources for immigrant youth in Redwood City and North Fair Oaks (involve youth and adult partners in the community)
About You
Stand up if you:
Are a parent
Live in Santa Clara County
Live in San Mateo County
Are an educator
Are a business person
Have a relationship with a young person who is an immigrant
Believe that all young people deserve a chance to reach their fullest potential
Want to live in a diverse, respectful, welcoming community
Objectives for This Session
Put a human face on the complex challenges immigrant youth face
Increase support for immigrant youth in our community
Discuss the impact of these challenges on the broader community and the region
Obtain your input on the project RWC 2020 is proposing as well as inspire action by you!
Javier’s Story…
In dyads…
What challenges (in the video or your direct experience) do you see immigrant youth facing?
What impact do they have on the broader community and our Silicon Valley region?
Youth-Adult Alliance: Why Do It?
For Youth Access immigration-related
information they may need Obtain ideas for infusing this
work in their school culture Develop translatable leadership
skills and experiences Acquire access to other caring
adults Develop relationships and build
community Build confidence and gain new
skills Feel empowered and heard Better their school and greater
community Understand adult perspectives
For the Community Find new sources of energy in
the community building effort
Obtain access to more partners (teachers, peers, families)
Heighten the sense of immediacy and establish the concrete drive for action
Ensure creativity, new ideas and approaches
Create a pipeline of engaged community members
Shift perceptions about the role of youth
Redwood City 2020Community Partners
Sequoia High School DREAM Club
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, Stanford University
International Institute of the Bay Area
Sequoia Teen Resource Center
Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center
Cañada Community College
Redwood City Library
Fair Oaks Community Center
Boys & Girls Club
CARON Program
Faith Community Leaders
Civic & business leaders
And many more!
Where we want to go next –It takes the whole community!
Raise awareness about the challenges and opportunities for immigrant integration, making sure to include less visible members of the community.
Engage a greater diversity of community members in the implementation and actions of our work (youth, seniors, known and unknown)
Demonstrate the value of and provide support and opportunities to immigrant and undocumented youth in our community – they are our now and our future
Action Plan Idea
Community event in May
Highlight the digital stories youth have created and share additional youth stories and narratives (essays, photos etc.)
Create and launch a “Faces of the Community” photo gallery that reflects the diversity of our community
Provide opportunities for attendees to share their own stories and inspire them to action
Other Activities We’d Like to Launch
Raise
awarenessProvide
Direct
Support to
Immigrant
Youth
Promote
positive
messages
• Hold another successful “Making Dreams Come True Event” in November 2012
• Set and meet a $10,000 scholarship fundraising goal for 2012-13
• Recruit community ambassadors and launch public messaging campaign
What do you think?
How can we make these events more attractive to the general public?
How might we enlist additional supporters and sponsors?
How else might we inspire people to action?
Other feedback?
For more information, please visit:
Redwood City 2020 – www.rwc2020.org (650) 423-2207
Sequoia Dream Club – [email protected]
International Institute of the Bay Area – www.iibayarea.org (650) 780-7537, [email protected]
Vote for us!Thank you!