Category: Community Rebuilding Working Group

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Expand Access to Spanish Adult Literacy Project

R3V has been honored to help facilitate a conversation among community partners seeking to expand opportunities for Spanish-speaking adults to gain basic literacy and numeracy skills to improve their work prospects.

The goal is to create a feeder system to expansion of Head Start’s LISTO family literacy program.

Partners

  • LISTO program of Head Start
  • OnTrack
  • Rogue Community College
  • Southern Oregon University
  • Jackson County Library Services
  • LINC
  • Reimagine And Rebuild Rogue Valley

Video courtesy of LISTO

Our Approach

Here is a set of slides that summarizes our thinking so far.

Next Steps

  • Create a structure to allow interested students to connect with local tutors in an accessible, engaging, and encouraging way.
  • Collect a list of resources for students and tutors in their first steps towards greater literacy
  • Support the expansion of LISTO’s INEA primary and secondary education offerings to meet current need
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Community-Driven Leadership

We partnered with Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN) and had a great discussion with Ashland city leaders Mayor Julie Akins and Interim City Manager Gary Milliman it was moderated by Stephen Bárczay Sloan of the Humane Leadership Institute and Local Innovation Works.  We explored ideas on how the community can work with city staff and local elected officials to help identify and drive forward with solutions.

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Local Partners Support Almeda Fire Recovery Zone Captains

Here’s a great video from The Mail Tribune on some of our work in the community.  Zone captains work to connect neighbors in the fire affected areas to each other, to important information, and to resources to help speed recovery.

Zone captains is a partnership with founding organization, Remake Talent and Rogue Workforce Partnership who helps fund the Zone Captain’s work. 

Zone Captains (espanol) are hiring part and full time positions. So, if you know anyone who is a fire survivor and a community weaver, please reach out via the contact form on their website!

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Adult Spanish Literacy Program

Goal of the project

To create an accessible program to support Spanish-speaking adults with basic Spanish literacy instruction leading towards greater empowerment and a GED certificate via the existing INEA program offered by the Mexican government to support adults earning their Primeria and Secondaria diplomas.

The challenge

Existing programs at LISTO and OnTrack can meet only small portions of the need in the community. A program that adds significantly to both the variety of community members who can be served and the length of time they can participate in the program is warranted to meet the existing need.

Participants

  • Rachelle Schaaf, SO Head Start
  • Patty Gutierrez, LISTO
  • Eddie Wallace, OnTrack
  • Jocksana Corona, OnTrack
  • Josh Guerrero, OnTrack
  • Ailym Pinero Requena, RCC and LISTO
  • Lilia Caballero, LINC and Medford Police, sponsor
  • Stephen Sloan, R3V, facilitator

Open questions

  • Who can hold the program for the community at large across the coming years? The Jackson County Library System is a strong possibility for leading this work.
  • Where might we find funding for the expanded program?
  • How can labor be divided and capacity shared across organizations to integrate with INEA?
  • Who could be trained to support students? Might volunteers be able to help?
  • Where could students and teachers meet?
  • How might students be supported with any technology required?

R3V’s role

Facilitation of community conversations and collaborative project work leading to an expanded Adult Spanish Literacy program.

R3V working group supporting the work

Community Rebuilding Working Group

Opportunities to Participate

The project team meets as needed, our next meeting is planned for October 21. Contact us to learn more.

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Community Rebuilding Meeting on July 28th

Featuring discussions regarding how to bring the community together to commemorate the upcoming year anniversary of the Almeda fire, and how to implement the services transitional and temporary housing residents need.

Here is the chat transcript

You can email LeAnn Mobley from United Rotary Club to help get money to small businesses for equipment at leann.mobley@gmail.com.