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Cambio Center News - May 2015
In this newsletter: Cambio de Colores Update, New Fellows, Language Services Program, Updates from Fellows, Other Opportunities, News to Use
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Conference Update
Cambio de Colores is just two weeks away – June 10-12 at UMKC. The full program is available on the website. We have an excellent set of plenary speakers, presentations, workshops, and site visits. Join us and invite your colleagues and students to join this very open, accessible, and important discussion. See flyer attached.
Plenary speakers include:
Kansas City's Latino Civic Engagement Collaborative - "Utilizing the Hispanic Needs Assessment as an Impetus for Action”.
Speakers include John Fierro (President/CEO of Mattie
Rhodes Center), Dr. Kathryn L. Fuger (Research
associate of UMKC’s Institute for Human Development), and
Carlos Gomez (President/CEO of the Hispanic Chamber
of Commerce of Greater Kansas City).
Dr. Bridget McCandless - is the President/CEO of the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City and is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Specialist with an interest in chronic disease management and poverty medicine.
Mario Hernández - is the VP and COO of the Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC). LEDC is Minnesota's statewide, membership, and ethnic based organization focused on transforming communities by creating economic opportunity for Latinos.
Katherine Richardson Bruna - is an associate professor in the School of Education at Iowa State University. Her research interests include multiculturalism and bilingualism in schools and society, and teaching and learning in demographically transitioning community and classroom contexts.
Welcome to New Fellows!
The Cambio Center Board recently invited six new Fellows to join the Cambio Center. Welcome to:
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Irma Arteaga, Assistant Professor, Truman School of Public
Affairs, MU
Dr. Arteaga's research interests include family policy and evaluation of early childhood interventions.
Link to her webpage. - Megan Strawsine Carney, Licensed Psychologist at Dept. of Education, School and Counseling Psychology, and the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Dr. Carney was previously a student Fellow.
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Zandra de Araujo, Assistant Professor, Learning, Teaching and
Curriculum, College of Education, MU
Dr. de Araujo studies mathematic education of English language learners.
Link to her web page. -
Sarah Killoren, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family
Science, MU
Dr. Killoren's research interests include family relationships, culture, and Latino adolescent and young adult adjustment, contributions of parents and siblings to adolescents’ sexual health and positive development, and parent-adolescent and sibling relationship dynamics
Link to her web page. -
Katharine Zeiders, Assistant Professor, Department of Human
Development and Family Studies, MU
Dr. Zeiders' research interests include sociocultural stressors among Latino families and youth, physiology and health behaviors underlying environmental stressors, and cultural values and beliefs.
Link to her webpage. -
Kate Olson, doctoral candidate, Truman School of Public Affairs,
MU
Kate’s dissertation is “Immigrant Nonprofits and Immigrant Use of Social Services”
Cambio Center’s “Language Services Program”
The Cambio Center has recently launched its Language Services Program to provide translation, interpretation, transcription, and editing services in Spanish and English languages. Our goal is to provide a service to our state to enable institutions, organizations, and others to effectively communicate with Spanish language audiences. We work with native bilingual speakers to ensure that our translations sound natural and accurately communicate information. Contact us if you have any questions.
Updates from Fellows
Cultural Awareness Training for Disability Services
Agencies
This school year, Cambio board member and fellow
Kay Conklin and coordinator Lindsey Saunders worked
with TIPS for Kids intern Sarah Wehmeyer and Peace Corps Fellow and
Services for Independent Learning’s Michael Hendricks in a project to
improve the Boone County Latino population’s access and use of
disability services. Their project included working with Cambio Center
Fellows Alejandra Gudiño and
Megan Carney to create a cultural awareness training
specifically for employees of disability services agencies. Alejandra
and Megan led the training for Boone County agencies on May 19th with
over 25 participants. Thank you to these fellows for their hard work
and service!
Emily Crawford - ELPA
New publication:
Crawford, E.R., & Fishman-Weaver, K. (Forthcoming, 2015).
Proximity and Policy: Negotiating safe spaces between
immigration policy and school practice. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Alejandra Gudiño – FNEP Cultural Inclusion & Diversity
Coordinator
Alejandra received the 2015 Mizzou Inclusive Excellence Award for her
work done with 4H Latino Youth Future in Columbia. Congratulations!
Other Opportunities
MU Voz Latina organizes a weekly newsletter of Latino/Hispanic local news, events, updates and activities. Email muvozlatina@missouri.edu to be added to the distribution list.
SERA 37 Latinos in the New South: Call for proposals
Conference will be October 5-7, 2015 in Nashville, TN
SERA-37 is a coalition of land-grant faculty, Extension personnel,
and partners from the 13 Southern Region states and 2 territories.
It seeks to strengthen the capacity of the Southern region’s
land-grant institutions and other partners to address critical,
contemporary issues in response to the growing Hispanic/Latino
population in the South.
Call for Proposals Submission deadline –June 1, 2015 – See
attached.
News to Use
United States Department of Agriculture: Economic Research
Service
Rural-urban poverty gap is widest among youngest
Americans
An important indicator of the Nation’s long-term well-being is poverty
among children; child poverty often has an impact that carries
throughout a lifetime, particularly if the child lived in poverty at
an early age. Like the overall poverty rate, nonmetro (rural) child
poverty has been historically higher than metro (urban) child poverty,
and increased to record-high levels in 2012. According to Census
estimates, the poverty rate for children under 18 living in rural
areas stood at 26.2 percent in 2013, more than four percentage points
higher than the metro child poverty rate of 21.6 percent. In 2013, the
nonmetro/metro difference in poverty rates was greatest for children
under six years old (30.3 percent nonmetro and 23.9 percent metro).
Child poverty is more sensitive to labor market conditions than
overall poverty, as children depend on the earnings of their parents.
Older members of the labor force, including empty nesters and
retirees, are less affected by job downturns, and families with
children need higher incomes to stay above the poverty line than
singles or married couples without children. This chart is found in
the ERS topic page on
Rural Poverty & Well-being, updated April 2015.
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