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ROOT CAUSE: CULTURAL BARRIERS, ISOLATION, INTOLERANCE
Why do we care about this issue?
- Relates to life on all levels
- Client population - diverse
- Programs developed on "Western" view - need to make it more relevant to diverse populations
- System is designed to exclude certain groups
Stakeholders
- Community leaders
- Religious organizations
- Informal leaders
- El Buen
- St. Johns
- Minority Health Network
- Traditional Healers
- AMN
- Community of Reconciliation
- Education systems (universities)
- Policy makers (Judge Biscoe) - all elected officials
- Within institutions (mid-level managers)
- Consumers- TXAMI
- Tx. Alliance for Human Needs
- Federation of Familie
- Families - ECI
- Businesses - Chamber of Commerce & high tech
- Funders - City (Austin, Round Rock, etc.)
- Travis County
- United Way
- Community Foundations
- Tax payers/community
- Education - ACC, Huston-Tillotson, Concordia, UT, St. Edwards, local school districts, Region 13 Service Center
- Social Service agencies - Aware, YWCA, LifeWorks
Next Steps :
- Health Partnership 2010 - expand past Physical health
- Include MHMR
- Consumers
- More education, in addition to AISD, business
- Have organizations similar to El Buen involved in subcommittee work that gives input
- Bring in CAN's work with Social Equity
- **Have leaders go through this process (Brainstorming re: cultural barriers, etc)**
- Watchdog (program) that raises issues when agencies/individuals in leadership are doing things wrong, as well as when things go right)
- What's done wrong/right
- A cultural/experiental awareness for policy makers (Tx. Alliance on Human Needs)
- Moving fund (extra $$) to organization that are doing this
- Having data analysis unbiased such as teen pregnancies-look at whole picture (subcommittee of HP2010)
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