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

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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

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2

3

4

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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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