Creating Sustainable Futures
Creating Sustainable Futures:
A Community-Centric Approach to Environmental Awareness and Action with Latinos in Minnesota
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Sanar Creando – Healing through Art Therapy
Sanar Creando – Healing through Art Therapy
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Undocumented Latino Workers in MN
Undocumented Latino Workers in MN:
A study of their Economic Impact
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Creando Ando 2.0
Creando Ando 2.0:
Building entrepreneurial
confidence in Latines in Region
Nine counties
Improving the security in our community
Improving the security in our community
A look inside the scams impacting the Latine community of Minnesota and North Dakota.
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Latine Artists of Minnesota
HACER conducted three focus groups and 10 in-depth interviews with Latine artists and arts professionals to gain insights into the barriers, motivations, and goals of artists around Minnesota. Participants ranged in ages, backgrounds, geographies, genders, and practices. They were recruited through social media, contact with community leaders, contact with arts organizations, and through a snowball method of recruitment that relies upon referrals from colleagues and peers of the initial participants.
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Latino Renters in Minnesota
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized housing stability as a critical social determinant of health. The quality, safety, affordability, and location of homes directly impact individual and family well-being. An equitable approach to housing stabilization and recovery measures is needed to address the persisting financial hardships and housing insecurity of Latines in Minneapolis. Recommendations include 1) education on renters’ rights to go beyond improved landlord-renter relationships; 2) continued investment in culturally responsive organizations to provide homebuyer education and counseling; 3) promotion of alternative models of homeownership; and 4) new outreach approaches to disseminate information on housing programs.
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Safe Route to Healthy Foods: Findings Report
In 2014, Dr. Jerry Shannon and Asian Media Access collaborated on a study that looked at the relationship between food purchasing and transit, which was the first study of its kind. The findings were:
• Most low-income, urban communities have a net “outflow” of SNAP benefits, most often to suburban areas.
• Supermarkets and wholesale retailers play the largest role in providing food for SNAP clients, but stores in low-income neighborhoods are often seen negatively.
• Ethnic retailers were also often used by study participants for specific food items, but seldom as a primary food source.
Asian Medica Access and Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research have built on the previous report and designed a new project to further help define patters on food access among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and its relationship to the transportation, as well as different shopping behaviors influences by diverse cultures.
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Race to Equity Final Evaluation Report
Throughout history we have heard about racial profiling and discrimination by law enforcement officers against Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) The Latino community does not escape this situation when they report arbitrary detentions, excessive use of force, and deportations.
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Creando Ando 2020
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER) designed and applied this Creando Ando Program in Rochester to increase self-confidence and foster an entrepreneurial mindset among the Latino community of Rochester.
For the development of the project, we designed three workshops utilizing the Design Thinking model, which refers to the cognitive, strategic and practical processes by which design concepts are developed. Due to COVID- 19, all workshops were conducted via zoom.