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5 | APPENDIX COMMUNITY CONVERSATION #5

Date: October 2, 2015
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Lugar de Reunion, 201 E. Franklin St., Room B3, Sparta, WI 54656
Target Audience/Participant: Hispanic Community
Identified Community Assets:

• Support for Hispanic community
• Work opportunities
• Children’s education
Identified Community Needs:
• Child Care
• Access to driver’s license
• Training for immigrants
• Discrimination (police and in the workforce)
• Education
• The need for more bilingual people and interpreters at places of business, clinics, and hospitals
• Accessible banks
Additional Feedback/Comments:
• At-risk youth
• Availability of quality housing
• Discrimination towards Hispanics
• Drivers licensing – limit barriers to obtaining
• Food availability
• Help with housing repairs
• Jobs with adequate income
• Medical health
• Need for more personal bilingual instructors in public hospitals
• Organization that helps pay medical bills for those who cannot pay
• Poverty
• Substance use, abuse and dependency

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