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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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Attainable Housing Introduction

Here are some resources we have compiled to support our community’s thinking about attainable housing. We define attainable housing as that “missing middle” housing for people who don’t qualify for affordable housing programs, but none the less find it challenging to pay full market pricing in the midst of a local and national housing crisis.

Basics

A compilation of basic information about attainable housing

Thought Papers by R3V Members

White papers

Case Studies

Housing and Development Think Tanks

A listing of links to thought leaders on housing is here

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R3V Facilitator Update Week 38

It’s been a rewarding couple of weeks facilitating the work of R3V, plus, we all got to hear, smell, and feel the rain again.

Housing Working Group

  • In our Collective Impact meeting this month we gathered questions for Direct Housing communications about possible extensions of the direct housing in hotels, RV parks, and FEMA trailers as well as the FEMA trailer purchase and donations programs.  While there is a lot of work being done to support those in temporary housing, those residents don’t seem to have a clear picture of the path ahead.  Who can help them with clear information and when can their options be communicated to them?
  • The group discussed what data  would be helpful about housing options, who might compile, present, and update the data.
  • Representative Pam Marsh will host an update on the mobile home situations on the evening of Oct 20. Save the date and watch for details to come.
  • We talked about how we might help advance attainable housing development and landed on:
    • Coordinate land availability discussions to turn a competitive process into a collaborative one in the Rogue Valley
    • What policy changes would support the development of attainable housing?  We are pulling together a white paper of recommendations for various actors in the housing equation across sectors
  • R3V has been pulling together basic information on attainable housing development and how we might move towards more supply here in the Valley.
  • Land availability research
    • Discussing how this works with developers and consultants active in local land acquisition work.
    • Outreach to land owners who might be interested in supporting attainable housing development.
  • Promotion of ADU development
    • How can the community support the development of more ADU housing in the Rogue Valley?  Promotion of awareness and  knowledge of options, opportunities for efficiency, fire wise. And accessibility, benefits, constraints, and process ?
      • Align with city of Talent planning commission promotion efforts
      • Support development of a presentation to the Talent City Council re the urgency of need. 
      • Schedule a review of the case for ADU promotion in a council work session
      • Educate city councilors and the public on the issue and opportunities to add units to existing and new homes.
      • Work with single family residential developers on optimizing their site plans for future ADU development.
    • Updated Housing Working Group page on the website

Community Rebuilding Working Group

Backbone Organization for Collective Impact

  • Refocusing our large CI meetings on bringing in outside experts to support our learnings around attainable housing and community rebuilding
    • Potential topics for next meeting 
      • Attainable housing 
      • Greenway project updates and future opportunities update by Jim Pearman, FEMA

As ever, please invite anyone in our community who you think should be included in our conversations. The easy way is to share our events calendar with them via this link so they can find all the details about the meeting in one place.