Edie Jessup Program Development Specialist Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program

1. Leading Effective Multilingual Meetings Edie Jessup Program Development Specialist Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program Humbolt County 12/1/11

2. California’s Central Valley • Central California stretches almost 300 miles. • It’s home to more than 3.8 million residents. The population is expected to more than double 2050. • Our families represent over 70 ethnicities and speak over 105 languages making it one of the most culturally diverse areas in California and the nation. Southeast Stockton Ceres Southeast Merced Fairmead Madera Southeast Fresno Earlimart Pixley Kettleman City Delano Greenfield/Bakersfield

3. The Paradox • Within our valley lies one of the largest and richest agricultural regions in the world. • Families still struggle to put food on their tables. "It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves." -Cesar Chavez

4. Challenges in Accessing Healthy Food • Access: Lack of healthy food outlets in poor neighborhoods and rural communities. Must shop in tiny stores (often liquor stores or ready-marts) which rarely carry fresh produce. • Affordability: Higher cost of eating healthy. • Limited transportation to larger cities with better grocery shopping opportunities. • Poverty’s Dilemna convenience, easy to get to, and cheap.

5. CCROPPPolicy and Environmental Change • The environment people live in impacts their health and access to healthy food and safe places to be active: • Obesity • Diabetes • Heart Disease • Asthma

6. CCROPP Organizes people impacted by where they live • Work in places impacted • Work to develop local leadership through Leadership Trainings in Spanish and English (Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities) • Place determined policy, environmental change and engagement with power structures for improved health is needed. • Legacy leadership

7. About CCROPP: What we learned • Regionally engaging new leaders for better health required CCROPP to become language savvy in all our work. • Staff • Inclusion in meetings and organizing for change • Written documents • Evaluation • Accommodations in Times, Places, Transportation, Childcare • Commitment to learning and values identified by these new leaders.

8. Introductions- Who is here and why?

9. Why include diverse community members in public meetings and decision-making?

11. What Humboldt County Already Knows • Diversity- • Multiculturalism- • Racism • True community participation

12. What Does it Take to Honestly Engage our Whole Community? Cost of Inclusiveness: • Time • Monetary cost Community Gains from Inclusiveness • Short term • Long term

13. What to consider 1. Invitations: • How do we organize for participation?

14. What to consider 2. Environment: • Is the milieu comfortable for the participants?

16. What to consider 3. Headsets: • Engage Multiple Multicultural participation in real time.

17. What to consider 4. Interpreters vs. translators?

18. What to consider 5. Accommodations • Childcare • Food • Transportation • Venue and Time

19. What to consider 6. Materials: • Enough and in multiple languages?

20. What to consider 7. Method for continued engagement: • Follow up, ongoing connections to build a savvy community • How to include electeds and people in power to hear and respond to participants

21. What to consider 8. Evaluation: • Community Based Participation in Issues and Programs

22. Panel Discussion • Effective multilingual community meetings: • We should listen to those who have personal experience of participation in English Speaking meetings. • Challenges, barriers, successes: Likes and Wishes • Getting people to participate: How outreach works for different groups.

23. Panelists • Abel Rodriguez • Noemi Hernandez • Marcelina Mejia De Castillo • Claudia Madero • Khou Vue: • Spanish/English Interpreter: Laura Power

25. Lunch • What does our Lunch model?

26. Interpretation Not Translation • Interpretation Resources

27. Interpretation Not Translation • Professional vs. volunteers? • Interpreters co-op focused on Health and Human Services?

28. Interpretation Not Translation • Language Breakout Groups or Multilingual large meeting?

29. Interpretation Not Translation • Learning Content • Language • Reading Level

30. Interpretation Not Translation • Training Interpreters • Materials ahead of event • PowerPoint as tool • Special Termanology • Slow down!

31. Interpretation Not Translation • Training Participants • Welcome • Review Agenda • Allow time to hear participants • Ask for their opinion and expertise • Follow up with next steps

32. What next? • Next steps for full community participation

33. Check-In Head Sets • How to manage end of meeting check-in of Head Sets

34. Evaluation • Likes/Wishes- Verbal and record • Written Evaluation in Packet (Eng., Spanish, other languages) • Numerically rated questions • Process questions • Compile and report back

35. Resources, Next Steps • Interpreter resume and challenges re: current interpreter lists?

36. Resources, Next Steps • Next Steps: • Personal • Organizational • Collectively

37. Resources, Next Steps • Meeting Evaluation • Check Headsets In

38. Contact Information Edie Jessup Program Development Specialist CCROPP (Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program Phone: 559-977-7438 E-mail: ejessup.ccropp@gmail.com Visit us on the web at: www.ccropp.org