Bilingual Community Outreach Plan

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:09 +0000

In the city of Salinas, where 32% of residents are children and youth, outreach strategies that embrace participatory practices can enlarge young people’s perceptions and contribute to a more socially and environmentally just community. They can also provide young people with skills and a sense of empowerment to effect change in their communities.
This plan lays a framework for short- and long-term strategies for outreach to accomplish this. Long-term outreach lays a foundation for a process of how to connect with community across projects and time frames. It includes a model for neighborhood networks that support youth allies as leaders of outreach efforts, with support from community organizations, the city and CSUMB. Short-term outreach draws from a rich and extensive participation toolbox and presents a few examples of ways to engage community members at existing places and events. These include art-based methods for engagement and youth radio. A central tenant of this plan is that in order for outreach to be effective, it needs to meet people where they are. This means going to the places where people already gather, such as the Constitution soccer fields or the Take it Outside event. It also means meeting people where they are in language and desired approaches to engagement. This plan reflects ideas and interests we heard from people within Salinas as well as best practices in participatory research and community engagement. This plan reflects only 6 weeks of research and work in a CSUMB Environmental Studies course. We hope it plants seeds that can grow into sustained outreach efforts that can support our vision for a thriving and inclusive community that draws from cultural assets and community strengths.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Victoria Derr
Natural Sciences
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
vderr@csumb.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Donald Reynolds

San Diego State University

Ada Inman — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:28:52 +0000

The Sage Project

The Sage Project is a program within the at San Diego State University with a simple goal: tackling sustainability goals through community-based projects. Thousands of university students are eager to use their knowledge, skills, and creativity outside of the classroom, and faculty need impactful projects to offer these students. The Sage Project establishes partnerships with local communities that give SDSU students access to dozens of projects each year developed in close collaboration with the community. The result is a sustainable relationship between the university and surrounding communities. University faculty are given the connections and resources to seamlessly incorporate community-based projects into their courses, university students learn through real-world projects, and partner communities get immediate access to dozens of instructors and researchers at the cutting edge of their fields plus students with the drive and fresh perspective to offer innovative solutions to the community’s pressing problems.

CRS aims to expand its programming and initiatives to continue to make an impact on students, faculty, staff and the greater community at large, and to set an example for institutions around the world. By design, Sage and its sister programs help to move SDSU toward the “Fifth Wave” institutional goal of a culture that is transdisciplinary, collaborative, and problem-driven, by addressing global challenges at a local level, through collaborations across campus and with partners from business, government, nonprofits, and education.

Fun Facts about Sage

Sage has gone international via a partnership with the City of Tijuana, Mexico, on a project focused on helping improve parks through community engagement and education. In addition, through partnership with Sage, the City of Lemon Grove, CA, was the first US city to apply the UN Habitat’s climate action planning toolkit. Sage has also partnered with the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, a regional office of the California Water Boards, a State agency.

Year Program Established | 2013
Country | US
Federal Region of Program | 9

Public or Private Institution | Public
Number of students at institution | 35,000

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Community Partners

Contact Info

Jessica Barlow
Program Director
(619) 594-3807
jbarlow@sdsu.edu