SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
University Affairs Office
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609
(707) 664-2057
e-mail: jean.wasp@sonoma.edu
University Affairs Office
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609
(707) 664-2057
e-mail: jean.wasp@sonoma.edu
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 12, 2003
Contact: Amra Stafford, Latino Consortium, (707) 664-3202
"Communities as Places of Learning" Conference
Targets Latino Community Issues, Nov. 22
"Communities as Places of Learning," a conference organized by the Sonoma State University Latino Consortium, will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22 at the Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa.
This event will bring together members of non-profit and government agencies, local Latino neighborhood leaders and community members, as well as members of the SSU community.
They will engage in planning collaborative actions that benefit Sonoma County's Latino communities, and create three to six feasible service-learning projects to help resolve present and emerging community problems.
Many North Bay names have joined the Conference as partner organizations, including: The City of Santa Rosa, Family Action, St. Joseph's Health Network, Petaluma City Schools, and the Latino Commission on Drugs and Alcohol.
The Sonoma State University Latino Consortium for Families and Youth was created to enhance services to local Latino neighborhoods by building service-learning relationships between the University, K-12 schools and local community groups.
Based on the growing needs for these types of services, Dr. Elisa Velasquez, of the SSU psychology department, organized a roundtable discussion with eight Latino professors and a number of community members to discuss the issues of how to provide more culturally-sensitive services to Latino families.
They organized themselves into the Consortium, which has since grown into a multi-organizational collaborative.
For more information on the conference, contact Amra Stafford, (707) 664-3202.