Priority Area: Meaningful Engagement and Community-driven Decisions
Barrier: Representation and Inclusion

Challenge/Local/State

Description

Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Community Program Implementation )

Provide culturally rooted, multilingual engagement and communication. Local agencies deliver outreach materials and facilitation in residents’ preferred languages and cultural formats, going beyond basic translation to ensure relevance and accessibility. They also maintain open, multilingual communication channels that connect communities to state programs and elevate community priorities in planning and decision-making.

Existing Examples of Progress: Spanish-language organizing as leverage: In one case, a community organizer intentionally spoke in Spanish at a board meeting to force board members to struggle with translation, highlighting neglect of a 1,000-member Spanish-speaking church. This action mobilized 200 residents to show up at a Saturday meeting and submit 115 letters of support, shifting the agency’s stance
Region: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Inland Deserts

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