WEBVTT 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.000 KEEP THE BACKGROUND NOISE DOWN TO ALLOW US TO 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:10.000 HEAR YOU CLEARLY. I WANT TO TURN IT 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.000 OVER TO MEL LEVITON AND 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:18.000 CHRISTINE PISANI. >> MEL LEVITON: I AM THE 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.000 INDEPENDENTS LIVING COUNCIL. AND HERE WITH 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:28.000 CHRISTINE. AND CHRIS 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:31.000 TINE AND I WORKED TOGETHER FOR 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:35.000 PROBABLY ABOUT 18 YEARS, SINCE SHE WAS A 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:38.000 PROGRAM SPECIALITE AT THE DD 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:42.000 COUNCIL AND ADVOCATE AT RIGHTS 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.000 IN IDAHO. WE 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.000 INITIALLY WORKED ON VOTER EDUCATION 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.000 PROJECTS TOGETHER. YOU HAVE TO FORGIVE US 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.000 . WE TRY NOT TO LOOK AT EACH OTHER, 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.000 WE HAVE A TENDENCY TO LAUGH TOO MUCH. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.000 AS WE ARE PREPARING FOR THIS, I JUST 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:04.000 WANT TO MAKE A NOTE. I TEND 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:07.000 TO BE THE BLUNT ONE. THOSE WHO KNOW ME 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.000 , YOU KNOW IT IS TRUE. AND CHRISTINE IS 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:13.000 BETTER WITH BIG WORDS THAN I AM. 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:16.000 FOR ANY OF YOU WHO ARE CONCERNE 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.000 D, WE ARE IN EACH OTHER'S BUBBLE FRE 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.000 QUENTLY. SO, THAT IS WHY WE ARE NOT WEARING 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.000 MASKS AND WE ARE, CLEARLY CLOSER T 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.000 HAN 6 OR 10 FEET OR 20 FEET 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:36.000 . WHATEVER YOUR PARTICULAR BUBBLE IS. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:39.000 TODAY WE ARE TALKING ABOUT CULTURE CONFLICTS AND 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.000 I WANT TO GET AN IDEA, WHA 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.000 WHERE YOU ARE, AND OFFER HOW WE APPROACH OUR 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.000 CULTURE COMPREHEND TENSE IN OUR LIVES AND 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.000 , AND ASK QUESTIONS IN THE 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.000 LAST TEN MINUTES OF THE PRESENTATION. IF YOU FIND, YOU HAVE A 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.000 LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.000 TALKING ABOUT, BE SURE 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.000 AND THROW IT IN THE CHAT OR THE Q AND A. 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.000 SIDNA IS WATCHING THAT. IF 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.000 SOMETHING COMES UP, 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.000 DON'T FEELING LIKE YOU HAVE TO WAIT TO THE 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.000 END. WE DON'T WANT TO LEAVE 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.000 ANYBODY BEHIND. WE LIKE TO TAKE 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.000 A PULSE WHERE YOU ARE IN THE ORGANIZATION. THE 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.000 POLLING QUESTION, HOW MANY OF YOU ARE DOING 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.000 COMPETENCE WORK IN 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.000 SILC OR 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.000 , YES YOU ARE, I DON'T KNOW, 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:44.000 NO YOU ARE NOT. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.000 HOST AND PANELISTS CANNOT VOTE. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.000 >> MEL, THIS IS SI DOC, POST N 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.000 DNA, ONE 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.000 QUESTION, PRONOUNS TO ADDRESS YOU BY. 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:03.000 >> MEL LEVITON: I AM SHE, HER. 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.000 >> CHRISTINE PISANI: AND I AM ALSO SHE, 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.000 HER. >> THANK YOU. >> THERE ARE 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:21.000 VOTES COMING IN. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.000 DO YOU WANT ME TO END IT? 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:30.000 >> MEL LEVITON: THAT WILL BE GREAT. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:33.000 I LIKE THAT, WE GOT, WE GOT 38 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:36.000 PERCENT AS YES. THEY ARE DOING CULTURE COMPETENT 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.000 CY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION. IT LOOKS LIKE 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.000 20 PERCENT NO, THEY ARE NOT. AND 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.000 42 PERCENT, I DON'T KNOW. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.000 I AM REALLY WITH YOU ON THE 42 PERCENT. I 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:53.000 FREQUENTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM WORKING ON IN OUR 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.000 ORGANIZATION. IT DEPENDS ON THE SECOND. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.000 AND WHO WALKS IN THE DO 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.000 OR. SO, THANKS FOR 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:06.000 TAKING THE TIME TO DO THAT. THE 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.000 CULTURE COMPETENCY WORK THAT CHRISTIN 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.000 E AND I DO IN THE ORGANIZATION IS INFORMED 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:16.000 SOME THROUGH THE LIFE EXPERIENCE. SOME 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:19.000 THROUGH PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, THROUGH TRAINING THAT WE HAVE, 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.000 BOTH SIDE, ACTUALLY, THROUGH 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.000 GEORGETOWN. AND WE HAD 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.000 SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITIES. 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.000 REALLY PART OF MY EXPERIENCE IS 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:37.000 LIVED EXPERIENCE IN 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.000 FORMAL FOSTER HOME ON THE 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.000 CORD /*E 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.000 ELANE RESERVATION IN I 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:49.000 IDAHO AND HANGING OUT WITH I 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.000 NDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN URBANE COMMUNITIES WHILE 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:55.000 HOMELESS IN 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:59.000 SEATTLE. IN THAT AREA. PROFESSIONALLY, I 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:02.000 WORKED IN A TRIBAL CRISIS SHELTER FOR YOU 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:05.000 NG PEOPLE AND KIDS. THE 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.000 PAYTOT 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.000 TRIBES IN NEVADA. AND TRIBAL AT 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.000 RISK IN NORTHERN IDAHO. THAT IS THE B 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:19.000 BIT OF MY BACKGROUND. ALSO, MY 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.000 WIFE IS MEXICAN AMERICAN 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.000 . AND ALL OF OU 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:28.000 R GRAND KIDS ARE SOME SHADE 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.000 OF NOT WHITE. AND ALTHOUGH, I LIV 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.000 ED AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT PART OF THE DOMINANT 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:38.000 CULTURE TO BE CLEAR, I AM A PRODUCT OF 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.000 DOMINANT WHITE CULTURE. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.000 I OFTEN FORGET EVEN IN 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.000 MY OWN FAMILY, AND I HAVE BEEN 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.000 MARRIED TO ALVA FOR 18 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.000 YEARS, AND BEEN TOGETHER FOR 20, I 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.000 FORGET THING W 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.000 HO ARE IN FRONT OF HER BRAIN 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.000 S, WORRYING ABOUT HE 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.000 R SONS AND CONCERNED ABOUT THE GRAND KIDS. IT IS E 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:10.000 ASY FOR ME, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE, THE 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.000 STEADY BACKGROUND AND LIVING WITHIN 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:16.000 DIFFERENT CULTURES, I STILL FORGET. THAT 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:19.000 THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AREN'T AS 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:25.000 SAFE AS I AM. 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.000 I HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE OF BEING MARGINAL 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.000 IZED BECAUSE I IDENTIFY AS L 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:35.000 ESBIAN, I LIVE IN A 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:39.000 RURAL 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.000 , WHITE, CONSERVATIVE STATE. SO 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.000 , I HAVE MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN THAT BUT I 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.000 CERTAINLY DON'T CLAIM TO UNDERSTAND EVERYONE'S EXPERIENCE 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:52.000 . 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:55.000 SOME OF THE WORRIES THAT WE DO, ACTUALLY CAME 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:59.000 ABOUT, I HAVE A SON-IN-LAW, WHO IS 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.000 , REFUGEE FROM 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.000 RUWANDA, 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:08.000 CAME 20 YEARS, AND HE AND I TALK 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:12.000 ED ABOUT, BY THE WAY, ABOUT CULTURE 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.000 EXPECTATIONS, AND DIFFERENT TERMS AND VIEWS 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.000 OF INDEPENDENCE. MY WIFE'S FAMILY IS 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:22.000 VERY INTERDEPENDENT. AND 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.000 I FREQUENTLY CATCH AND 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.000 I AM PRETTY GOOD AT IT NOW. I CATCH 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.000 MYSELF BEFORE I SAY STUPID THINGS 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.000 LIKE, WHY DOESN'T YOUR MOM MOVE OUT AND 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:39.000 GET HER OWN PLACE. THAT IS WHAT SHE 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:41.000 SHOULD DO. SO YOU GUYS 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.000 HE AND MY DAUGHTER HAVE THEIR OWN 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.000 SPACE AND HE LOOKS AT ME, CONFUSED, WHY ON 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.000 EARTH WOULD I DO THAT TO MY MOTHER? AND I CATCH MYSEL 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.000 F. AND SO, I THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS. 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:57.000 AND WE HAVE A 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:00.000 FAIRLY SIZE OF BOI 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:04.000 SE, IT IS ABOUT 3 HUNDRED 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:07.000 00,000-IS 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.000 H PEOPLE. WE HAVE A FAIRLY LARGE 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.000 REFUGEE COMMUNITY. WE ARE LOCATED IN A RESETTLEMENT 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.000 AREA. AND WE HAD, I HAD HAD THE 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:20.000 OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO DIFFERENT EVENTS 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.000 THAT I SEEN AT THE COMMUNITY HOSTS 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:26.000 . ONE OF THE THINGS 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.000 , ONE OF THE GROUPS DOES HERE, IT IS A SOCIAL 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.000 SERVICES AGENCY FOR REFUGEE 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.000 S, THEY HOST THE 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.000 COMMUNITY THEATER. THEY DID BC, 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.000 BEFORE COVID. AND THEY HAVE A COMMUNITY 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.000 DINNER, ONCE A MONTH. AND 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:50.000 IT IS OPEN TO ANYONE WHO CAN 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.000 COME. IT IS CATERED, AND 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.000 ASKED PEOPLE IF THEY WANT TO BRING SOMETHING TO 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:01.000 EAT OR SHARE THAT YOU DO THAT. 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.000 ALVA AND MY WIFE HAS 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:07.000 GONE A COUPLE OF TIMES, IT IS A, IT IS JUST A 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.000 GREAT, IT IS LIKE, I'M NOT GOING THERE TO SELL 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:13.000 ANYTHING, I'M NOT GOING THERE TO TALK ABOUT INDEPENDENT 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:17.000 LIVING. I'M, I AM GOING TO MEET 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:21.000 PEOPLE. AND TO SHARE AND TO LEARN, AND TO 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:25.000 LISTEN. AND IT IS REALLY, 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.000 IT IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER THINGS THAT I 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.000 HAVE GONE TO. IN WHITE CULTURE. 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:34.000 IT IS SIMILAR TO THINGS I HAVE DONE 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:39.000 POT LUCKS AND SUCH WITH 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.000 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AROUND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. IT 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:45.000 IS SIMILAR TO THAT. IN THAT, 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:48.000 EVERYBODY BRINGS FOOD. LOTS OF PEOPLE, 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.000 EVERYONE IS EXPECTED TO TAKE FOOD HOME. THEY HAVE A 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.000 CLOSET WHERE THEY SHARE IF YOU HAVE, 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:00.000 PEOPLE NEED TO PICK UP CLOTHING. THEY HAVE 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.000 , THEY HAVE THE CLOTHING AND THE CLOSET, AND NO 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:06.000 QUESTIONS ARE ASKED. AND IT IS JUST AN 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:09.000 OPPORTUNITY TO SIT ASK 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:13.000 AND EAT AND WATCH KIDS 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.000 RUN AROUND AND BE KIDS. IT IS A GREAT 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:19.000 EXPERIENCE TO GO. HONEST, I WAS UNCOMFORTABLE TH 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.000 E FIRST TIME I WENT. I TEND TO BE UN 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.000 COMFORTABLE WHEN I GO INTO SITUATIONS WHERE I DON'T 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:28.000 KNOW ANYBODY. THAT PIECE WAS 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.000 HARD FOR ME. BUT THAT IS TRUE WHEN I 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.000 GO INTO ANY SETTING. I WAS MUCH MORE 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:38.000 COMFORTABLE GOING TO THE COMMUNITY DINNERS TH 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.000 AN I AM WHEN I GO UP TO THE LEGISLAT 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:44.000 URE. AND I DO THAT PRETTY 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.000 FREQUENTLY. IT WAS A COMFORTABLE, 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:51.000 WELCOMING GROUP. SO, THAT IS WHEN OF THE 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.000 THINGS THAT HAS BEEN IMPORTANT FOR 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:57.000 ME TO DO BOTH PERSONALLY, AND 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:00.000 PROFESSIONALLY. SO, I WORK WITH THE 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:04.000 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OF 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:07.000 THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.000 COMMITTEE. WE MOVED UP THE OFFICES TO THE 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:14.000 CENTERS WHEN WE ARE ABLE TO. THAT IS PART 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.000 OF WHY WE WERE DRAWN TO THE LOCATION WE WENT TO. THERE 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.000 ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT REFUGEE 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.000 S ORGANIZATIONS UP THERE. AND WE 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:26.000 WANTED FOR CLOSER TO THAT. SO WHE 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:29.000 N THERE IS SOMETHING, 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:33.000 THAT IT COMES TIME FOR THEM, 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:36.000 TO KNOW WHAT WE HAVE, 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.000 WE'RE AROUND BUT IT IS DONE IN A WAY 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:42.000 THAT IS RESPECTFUL OF WHAT TH 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:45.000 EY NEED AS INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR CULTURE 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:49.000 . SO, 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.000 YOU KNOW, WE FREQUENTLY IN INDEPENDE 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.000 NT LIVING AND ANYTHING THAT IS SOCIAL 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.000 SERVICE, WE THROW AROUND THAT WE WILL 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.000 MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE. IF WE WILL DO, IF WE ARE GO 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:05.000 ING TO WORK WITH PEOPLE IN 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:08.000 WITH MENTAL ILLNESS, 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.000 WE ARE GOING TO MEET THEM WHERE THEY ARE. 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:14.000 IF WE ARE GOING TO WORK WITH PEOPLE 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:17.000 FROM HISPANIC CULTURES, WE ARE GOING TO MEET THEM WHERE T 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:20.000 HEY ARE. WE ARE GOING TO GO TO THEIR 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.000 CHURCH BAZARRS. 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.000 ARS. WE HAVE 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.000 WE WILL HAVE A TABLE AND SELL THE WARES, WE WILL 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:33.000 TALK ABOUT INDEPENDENT LIVING AND HOW GREAT 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:36.000 INDEPENDENT LIVING, DON'T YOU WANT TO LIVE INDEPENDE 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:39.000 NT TOO. AND MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:42.000 FAMILY AND GET SERVICES AND SUPPORT FROM THE 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:45.000 INSURANCE PROVIDER. AND LOOK 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.000 AT US, WHY IN GOD'S NAME, DO I 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:52.000 WANT TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE FAMILY? IT IS, 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.000 IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO LIKE MEET PEOPLE WHERE 00:12:55.000 --> 00:13:02.000 THEY ARE. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:05.000 AND SO, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE PUT IN OUR 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:08.000 NEWS STATE PLAN FOR INDEPENDENT 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.000 LIVING, RIGHT, I SAID THE 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:15.000 WORDS. SO, 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.000 WE PUT THEM IN ONE OF THE GOALS. WE HAVE 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.000 , WE HAVE A GOAL THAT IDAHOAN WITH 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.000 DISABILITIES RECEIVE THE COMMUNITY BASE SUPPORT THEY 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:27.000 NEED TO LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY OF CHOICE WITH 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:31.000 GREATER INDEPENDENCE. THAT IS ONE OF OUR GOALS. 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:33.000 AND WITHIN THAT GOAL, WE HAVE A 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:37.000 N OBJECTIVE OF THE IDAHO SILC, THE 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.000 NETWORK OF CENTERS AND THE COMMISSION FOR THE 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:43.000 BLIND, BECAUSE THEY ARE ONE OF OUR PARTNERS 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.000 , EXPAND CULTURE REQUEST 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:49.000 COMPETENT, LISTENING AND LEARN 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:53.000 ING ABOUT COMMUNITY, SPECIFIC CONCERNS AND ISSUES, 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:58.000 TO AND WITH UNSERVED, UNDER 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.000 SERVED, UNSERVED AND 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.000 UNDERSERVED POPS 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.000 POPULATIONS. I AM NOT /TKPWH WITH 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.000 GOOD WITH WORDS. 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.000 FREQUENTLY IN THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY, WE TALK ABOUT, WE WANT TO 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:18.000 REACH UNSERVED AND 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.000 UNDERSERVED, 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.000 UNSERVED AND UNDERSERVED POPUL 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:28.000 ATIONS. WE KNOW SOMEHOW 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:31.000 WHAT THEY ARE, DEPENDING ON W 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:34.000 WHERE WE ARE AND LIVE. IN IDAHO IT COULD BE PEOPLE 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.000 WHO LIVE IN WHAT WE CALL PROBL 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.000 FRONTIER COUNTRY, WHICH IS VERY RURAL. 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.000 THEY TEND NOT TO HAVE BROAD 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.000 BAND. AND MANY USE L 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:50.000 AND LINES. BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE, THERE IS NO CELL PHONE RE 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.000 CEPTION. SO THAT CAN BE, AN 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:58.000 UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED. 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.000 AND THE LGBTQ COMMUNI 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:04.000 TY. AND I AM GOING THROUGH THESE HOW WE 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.000 TEND TO FOCUS OUR ENERGIES. WE WILL GO 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:11.000 AFTER THE SUPER RURAL 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.000 COMMUNITIES AND LGBTQ, THAT IS ALSO 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:17.000 KIND OF SAFE AND PRETTY EASY TO CUSTOMER. 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:20.000 CAPTURE. EVERYBODY IS STILL 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.000 SPEAKING ENGLISH, THEY ARE READING 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.000 ENGLISH TO VARYING LEVELS. I DON'T HAVE TO ST 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.000 RETCH MUCH AS FAR AS BRINGING IN OTHER INTERPRETERS 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.000 . THEN, 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:37.000 WE WILL BRANCH OUT TO POSSIBLY THE 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.000 TRIBAL CULTURES HERE AND WE HAVE 5 RESIDENCE 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.000 FIVE RESERVATIONS HERE IN IDAHO. AND WE HAVE 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:49.000 VARYING DEGREES OF SUCCESS THERE. AND THEN, 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.000 REFUGEE COMMUNITIES AND THEN, 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.000 BLACK AMERICANS WHO ARE BORN HERE. AND THEN, 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.000 HISPANIC COMMUNITIES, BUT THAT CAN BE TOUCH 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:02.000 Y BECAUSE THEY MAY NOT SPEAK ENGLISH. TH 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.000 AT MEANS, WE HAVE TO 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:08.000 STRETCH, WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH A 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:11.000 RESOURCES TO HELP US WITH INTERPRETERS. 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:15.000 OR WE HAVE TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE QUICK 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.000 LY. FOR ME, THAT 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:22.000 IS PROBLEMATIC, I HAVE A LANGUAGE PROCESSING 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:25.000 DIFFICULTY. SO I AM DOING WELL TO 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.000 PROCESS ENGLISH. I TRIED MULTIPL 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.000 E TIMES TO LEARN LANGUAGES AND I AM NOT SUCCESSFUL. AND THAT 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:34.000 INCLUDES MY WIFE WHO ONLY SPEAKS TO 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:38.000 ME IN SPANISH WHEN SHE IS ANGRY AND 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:41.000 I CAN GUESS WHAT SHE IS SAYING AND 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.000 I WILL NOT REPEAT ANY OF THAT 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:47.000 HERE. ON TO THE PURPOSE FOR THE OBJECTIVE, WE HA 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:50.000 VE, 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:54.000 TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING WITHOUT INCREASING THE CULTURE AND LINGUISTIC 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.000 COMPETENCE, THE 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:01.000 PURPOSE IS TO LISTEN AND LEARN NOT TO SHARE 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.000 INFORMATION WHAT THE ORGANIZATION HAS TO HELP PEOPLE 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.000 WITHIN A GIVEN COMMUNITY. 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:10.000 DEPENDENT ON THE RESOUR 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.000 CES, ORGANIZATIONS MAY PROVID 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.000 E SPONSORSHIP. HOWEVER 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:20.000 SPONSORSHIP DO NOT 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:24.000 REPLACE STAFF PARTICIPATION AND EVENTS AND DON'T 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.000 DISTRACT FROM INTENTIONAL LEARNING. FOR EXAMPLE WE CAN 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:30.000 TABLE AN EVENT, BUT WE ARE NOT TABLING THE EVENT 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.000 THAT IS MEANT TO TELL X 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:36.000 , TELL PEOPLE WHAT OUR 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.000 AGENCY DO FOR PEOPLE FOR 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:43.000 THE EVENT. WE ARE THERE TO LISTEN AND 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:46.000 LEARN AND PAY ATTENTION. ACTIVE LIST 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.000 ENING AND 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.000 LEARNING, MEANS, I KNOW WHA 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.000 T THEY WANT BEFORE I OFFER. IT IS 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:58.000 EASIER SAID THAN DONE. WE GO TO THE TABLING 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:01.000 EVENT, WE WILL WANT TO SHARE WHAT THE CENTER DOES. 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.000 WHAT THE ORGANIZATION DOES. AND HOW WE CAN HELP Y 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:08.000 OU 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.000 KNOW THIS TABLING EVENT IS, HERE'S WHAT WE HAVE. 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.000 IS ANY OF THIS USEFUL? 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.000 AND MOSTLY NOT SAYING, ANY OF THIS US 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:20.000 EFUL, BUT JUST HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE THAT 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:23.000 COME UP. AND GETTING 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.000 TO KNOW THEM. AND WE HAD OPPOR 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:29.000 OPPORTUNITIES FOR THAT. THE MIGRANT 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:32.000 WORKERS HOST A THANK YOU, HARVEST EVENT IN 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:36.000 THE FALL AND WE GO OUT TO THE EVENT. WE A 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.000 RE SPONSORS TO HELP COVER EXPENSE S 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:42.000 S TO THAT EVENT. BUT REALLY, WE ARE JUST 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.000 THERE TO.... TO DEMONSTRATE THA 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.000 T WE ARE THERE. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.000 SO, AGAIN, 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.000 MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE, MEANS WE WILL SIT D 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:58.000 OWN, WE ARE GOING TO SHUT UP. AND WE ARE GOING TO L 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:01.000 ISTEN TO WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY. WHAT THEY WANT. 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:04.000 AND TAKING LOTS AND LOTS OF 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.000 TIME TO BUILD TRUST. SO, IN 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:12.000 THE WORK THAT I DO, I AM A, WE'RE, 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.000 PART OF THE, WE ARE A STATE 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.000 AGENCY IN IDAHO. SO, WE HAVE TIMEL 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.000 INES RIGHT? WE HAVE OUR FEDERAL GRANT 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:24.000 S THAT WE WORK ON, AND WE HAVE TIMELINES AND EVER 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.000 YTHING IS BUILT AROUND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:31.000 SPIL, AND THE OBJECTIVES AND THE GOALS 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.000 AND WE GET IT DONE. GET IT 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:37.000 DONE AND GET IT DONE. THAT D 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.000 OESN'T NECESSARILY WORK WHEN WE GO INTO ANOTHER CULTURE 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.000 . WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO IN AND HAVE TRUST LIKE THAT. 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:46.000 BECAUSE WE OFFERED THIS GREAT SERVICE THAT 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:50.000 SOMEBODY MAY OR MAY NOT WANT. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.000 BUILDING 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:56.000 TRUST IS A LONG TERM PROCESS, IT IS A COMMITMENT. IT IS M 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:00.000 E TAKING TIME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.000 AGENCY AND WITH THE ORGANIZATION AND WITH THE PEOPLE 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:06.000 , AND WITH THE COMMUNITY. DEPENDING 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.000 HOW MUCH I CAN DO THAT AND WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES THAT 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.000 MAY OR MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.000 TO DO AS A OR 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.000 N ORGANIZATION. THE DD COUNCIL HERE IN IDAH 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:21.000 O HAS COME UP WITH SOME 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.000 GREAT WAYS THAT THEY' 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:27.000 RE ADVANCING THIS, I'VE LEARNED 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:31.000 A LOT FROM THE PROJECTS THEY DO. THEY SPONSORED 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:33.000 US AND THE STAFF IN A CULTURAL EXPE 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:36.000 COMPETENCY LEARNING OPPOR 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:40.000 TUNITY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS. SO I WILL KICK IT 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:43.000 TO CHRISTINE BECAUSE CHRISTINE GOT 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.000 THIS, I AM PHILOSOPHICAL, CHRISTINE HAS 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:49.000 DONE SOME GROUNDWORK ON IT. 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.000 THANKS FOR LISTENING TO ME. >> CHRISTINE 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:55.000 PISANI: THANK YOU. I WILL START BY SHARING A STORY ABOUT S 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:58.000 OME OF THE FIRST 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:02.000 WORK THAT MEL AND I DID TOGETHER. 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:04.000 WE WERE SEARCHING FOR LEADERSES IN THE 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.000 STATE THAT HAD INTELLECTUAL AND MENTAL DISABILITIES. WE W 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:11.000 ERE DOING INTERVIEWS OF PEOPLE, 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:15.000 AND THERE IS ONE YOUNG LADY THAT I INTERVIEWED 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:18.000 IN CAMI 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.000 (PHONETIC SPELLING), IDAHO. SHE HAD A 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:24.000 ANGULAR MOMENTUM PRESENCE 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:27.000 MAZI 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.000 NG PRESENCE. TO 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.000 HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT SELF-DETERMINATION 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:36.000 MEANS, SELF-ADVOCACY, INDEPENDENT LIVING. PA 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:40.000 ALL THE WORDS THAT I THINK BOTH OF OUR 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.000 PROGRAMS USE A LOT WHEN WE A 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:46.000 RE DOING OUR WORK TO DEFINE OUR WO 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:49.000 RK, AND I LEARNED THAT 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:52.000 SHE HAD ASKED THE TRIBE FIRST BEFOR 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:56.000 E SHE CAN PARTICIPATE. SHE WAS NES 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:59.000 -PURSE (PHONETIC SPELLING), THIS 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:02.000 IS THE FIRST EXPERIENCE I HAD, WITH THIS HAPPENED. 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:05.000 AND I WAS FACED WITH A 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:08.000 DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING ABOUT HOW INDIVID 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.000 UALS PARTICIPATE IN LEADERSHI 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.000 P DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES. THE TRIBAL 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.000 DECIDED IT WASN'T A GOOD USE OF H 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:21.000 ER TIME OR APPROPRIATE USE OF HER TIME. 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:24.000 AND I HAD TO REALLY STEP BACK AND 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:27.000 REFLECT ON WHAT 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:30.000 JUST HAPPENED THERE. AND IT WAS A GOOD 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:33.000 EDUCATION FOR ME TO LEARN THAT IN MANY 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.000 CULTURES, WE DON'T THINK ABOUT 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.000 INDIVIDUALS, WE THINK ABOUT WHAT IS GOOD 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:44.000 FOR THE COMMUNITY. AND WHAT IS GOING TO BE 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:47.000 BEST FOR THE COMMUNITY. AND THAT IS NOT THE WAY I 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:50.000 WENT INTO IT, BUT IT QUICKLY CHANGED THE WAY I 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:53.000 THINK ABOUT REPRESENTING MAKING SURE WE HAVE 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:57.000 REPRESENTATION FROM ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT CULTURES 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.000 . AND THERE ARE DIFFERENT CONSIDERATIONS TO BE M 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.000 ADE MUCH LIKE WHAT MEL REFLECTED O 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:06.000 N INDEPENDENT LIVING LOOKS DIFF 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:09.000 ERENT TO CULTURES. IT IS NOT AN EXPECTATION IN MANY CUL 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:12.000 TURES AT AROUND 18, OUR SONS A 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.000 ND DAUGHTERS WOULD MOVE OUT. 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:20.000 BUT THAT IS THE DOMINANT CULTURES 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.000 SORT OF WAY OF DOING THINGS. IT MADE US 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.000 THINK ABOUT DIFFERENTLY, ABOUT THE WORDS THAT ARE USED 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:28.000 BOTH IN, IN OUR FEDERAL DEVELOPMENTA 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:31.000 L DISABILITIES ABILITY AND HOW WE 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:34.000 ACT AND FIND THE ON THES IN TH 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:37.000 E STATE PLANS AND WORK PLANS AND DEFINE 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:40.000 THE OUTCOMES FOR THE WORK. SO ONE OF TH 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:45.000 E THINGS THAT WE DID IS 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.000 IN STARTING THE 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:51.000 WORK BECOMING MORE CULTURALLY COMP 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:54.000 ETENT, WE IDENTIFIED THE LATINO, LAT 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:58.000 INEX, HISPANIC COMMUNITY IN T 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:00.000 HE STATE. IN OUR LAST 5 YEAR PLA 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:04.000 FIVE-YEAR PLAN AS HAVING THE MOST ISSUES 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:07.000 BECAUSE THEY ARE THE LARGEST MINORITY IN THE STATE. 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:10.000 WE COMPLETELY FOCUSED OUR ENERGIES AROUND 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.000 SERVING THAT COMMUNITY. 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.000 IN DOING THAT, WE CONTRACTED WITH WHAT 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:21.000 WE CALL A CULTURAL BROKER AND BEFORE 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:24.000 I GO ANY FURTHER WITH THE EXPLANATION OF WHAT 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:28.000 THAT RELATIONSHIP LOOK LIKE, I LIKE TO 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:31.000 HAVE A POLL THAT PUT UP, 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:34.000 THAT SORT OF ASKS THE QUESTIONS, ABOUT 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:37.000 IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT A CULTURAL BROKER IS 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.000 . 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.000 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT A CULTURAL 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:49.000 BROKER IS? 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:52.000 >> MEL AND CHRISTINE, THIS IS SI 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:55.000 DNA. I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION, IF YOU 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:58.000 LIKE TO ANSWER. YOU HAVE COMMON REASON IN THE M 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:02.000 ISS TRUST IN SUBCULTURE AND CAN YOU 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:05.000 GIVE AN AVERAGE LENGTH OF TIME TO BUILD THE TRUST 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:08.000 ? >> CAN YOU ACTUALLY GIVE ONE 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:13.000 MORE SECOND BEFORE YOU GIVE THAT ANSWER. 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.000 FRIENDS CAN ACCESS THE POLL 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:29.000 AT THE SAME TIME. 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:43.000 WE HAVE SOME COMING IN. 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:47.000 WANT TO GO AHEAD AND CLOSE IT, IT 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:50.000 SEEMED LIKE IT SLOW 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:53.000 ED DOWN. >> YOU WANT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION? 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:56.000 >> WE CAN BOTH ANSWER IT. MEL 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:01.000 >> MEL LEVITON: IN MY EXPERIENCE, 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:04.000 IT DEPENDS ON THE GROUP. 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:08.000 THERE IS, THERE ISN'T A 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:10.000 PAD ANSWER. IN MY EXPERIENCE, 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:14.000 IN LIVING WITH AND 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.000 WORKING WITH THE TRIBAL 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:21.000 GROUPS THAT I WORKED WITH, AND 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:24.000 TRIBES ARE DIFFERENT RIGHT? THEY ARE DIFFERENT 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:27.000 NATIONS SO THEY ARE NOT ALL THE SAME. IS 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:31.000 THAT IT TAKES A COMMITMENT 00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:34.000 OF A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF TIME. SO 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.000 WHEN I WORK FOR THE STATE PROTECTION 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:41.000 AND ADVOCACY SYSTEM, I WAS TASKED WITH 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:44.000 BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS ON THE 5 RESIDENCE 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.000 FIVE RESERVATIONS. AND CREATING A 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:52.000 PLAN TO DO THAT. AND I KNOW BEFORE I STARTED IT, 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.000 THAT THAT WAS NOT 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.000 GOING TO BE A UNIFORM PLAN. 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:02.000 AND THAT IT PROBABLY WASN'T GOING T 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:05.000 O BE ANYTHING THAT WE HAD THE RESOURCES TO DO: IT 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:08.000 BECAUSE IN MY EXPERIENCE, WORKING WITH THE TRI 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.000 BES THAT I WORKED WITH, IT TOOK A COMMITMENT OF 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.000 BEING AVAILABLE TO GO TO 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.000 A POT LUCK. BEING AVAILABLE TO 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:21.000 GO ONCE INVITED, 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:24.000 TO A SWEAT. 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:27.000 BEING ABLE TO GO TO CELEBRATE DIFFEREN 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:31.000 T FAMILY BAPTISTISMS. 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:38.000 DIFFERENT COMMUNITY EVENTS, BLACKBOARD 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:42.000 BEING AVAILABLE TO DO THESE, AND THESE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN BETWEEN 9 TO 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:44.000 5, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY IT. HAPPENS 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:48.000 ON WEEKENDS AND EVENINGS, THROUGH WHOLE 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:50.000 WEEKENDS, THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE WEEK. DEPENDING 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:54.000 ON WHAT IT IS. THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT AN ORGANIZATION CAN 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.000 EASILY PUT MONEY INTO. SO, 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.000 THE GOAL THERE WOULD BE 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.000 A BETTER USE OF THE TIME WOULD BE TO HIRE 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:07.000 SOMEONE WITH A DISABILITY FROM THAT COMMUNITY 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:11.000 BECAUSE THEY ALREADY UNDERSTAND ALL 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:13.000 THAT. AND THEY KNOW HOW TO APPROACH IT 00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:17.000 BEST WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY. 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:20.000 AGAIN, IT IS, NOT ALL, ALL CULTURES AN 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:23.000 D COMMUNITIES ARE THAT WAY. BUT IT 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.000 HAS TO BE A PUT UP OR SHOW UP OR 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:29.000 PUT UP MENTALITY. 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.000 I THINK, OVER WHAT YEARS, 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:35.000 NOT MONTHS. PAR 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:38.000 UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU WILL MAKE MISTAKES AND WHEN YOU 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:41.000 MAKE MISTAKES, THAT WILL PROBABLY CREATE SET 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:45.000 BACKS AND YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE TO SHOW UP 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.000 WHICH IS HARD. AND TIME CONSUMING. 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:52.000 AT LEAST I MADE MISTAKES MAYBE YOU HAVEN' 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.000 T MADE A MISTAKES. >> I MADE MANY. 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:58.000 >> OUR RESPONSE SIMILAR, IN THAT, 00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:02.000 YOU DON'T EVER STOP GAINING THE 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:05.000 TRUST OF THE COMMUNITY. IT IS A CONSTANT COMMITMENT. AND 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:08.000 WHEN WE STARTED THIS WORK, WE HAVE A 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:11.000 STAFF THAT IS DEDICATED TO THIS AS WELL AS 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.000 CONTRACTING WITH THE CULTURAL BROKER 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.000 . AND IT IS ABOUT SHOWING UP 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:21.000 . AND BEING 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:25.000 PRESENT AND NOT NECESSARILY PUTTING 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:28.000 YOUR STUFF ON THEM BUT WAITING TO 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.000 HEAR ABOUT WHAT 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:34.000 THEIR NEEDS ARE AND WORKING TO MEET THE NEEDS 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:38.000 . I HAD, IN ALL OF THIS WORK, 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:43.000 YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT NOT ALL STAFF 00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:46.000 , NOT ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE R 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:49.000 EALLY HUNDRED PERCENT BEHIND THIS. 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.000 SO, THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE THERE. AND I 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:56.000 EVEN HAD STAFF SAY TO ME, AREN'T 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.000 WE DONE WITH THE CULTURE CO 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:02.000 MPETENCE STUFF. IT IS NEVER D 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:05.000 ONE. IT IS A CONTINUED COMMITMENT BECAUSE OF THE LAR 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:08.000 GE UNSERVED AND UNDERSERVED 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:11.000 OF POPULATIONS OF PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT ACCESSING SERVICES 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:14.000 FOR LANGUAGE RELATED BARRIERS, T 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:17.000 HE SERVICES AND CULTURAL RIG COMPETENT 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:20.000 COMPETENT. IT IS NOT DONE. I HA 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:23.000 D COUNCIL MEMBERS WALK OUT, STORM OUT 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:26.000 OF MEETINGS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN T 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:30.000 HE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING. IN SUPPORTING 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.000 LATINO, HISPANIC, LATI 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:37.000 NEX IN THE STATE. OUR STATE IS P 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.000 RO DOMINANTLY MECHANISM 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:43.000 XICAN AMERICAN. YOU HAVE TO /TK 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:46.000 GRAPPLE WITH THE GROWING PAIN AND I WAS 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:50.000 OKAY SEEING MEMBERS LEAVE THE COUNCIL IF 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:53.000 THEY COULDN'T GET BEHIND THE WORK OF 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.000 SERVING ALL PEOPLE IN THE STATE. AND REALLY WORKING 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.000 WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO PROVIDE 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.000 ONGOING EDUCATION AND 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.000 A COMMITMENT TO CONTINUING TO 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:10.000 SHOW UP AND WE DID MAKE A TON OF MISTAKES. 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.000 WE MAKE MISTAKES ALL THE TIME. AND 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:17.000 JUST LIKE MEL SAID, YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP, 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:20.000 ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT YOU DID. AND SAY, I WILL WORK TO 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:23.000 DO BETTER. BUT JUST AS A PERSON 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:26.000 WHO IS WHITE, I AM NOT GOING TO UNDERSTAN 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.000 D ALL THE CULTURAL NUANCES THAT 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.000 COME IN SERVING THE SPECIFIC CULTURE AND 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.000 I AM GOING TO MAKE MISTAKES. THE SOONE 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:39.000 R YOU CAN ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AND BE OKAY 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:43.000 KNOWING I WILL MAKE MISTAKES, I WILL TRY 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:45.000 HARD NOT TO CAUSE INTENTIONAL HARM, BUT I AM 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.000 GOING TO, WITH YOUR HELP, WORK THROUGH THIS, AND 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.000 LEARN AND WHEN I, WHEN I KNOW BETTE 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:55.000 R, I DO BETTER. AND THAT IS THE BEST 00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:58.000 WE CAN DO. SO AT THIS POINT, I REALLY 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:01.000 BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING WHAT THE POLL RESU 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:04.000 LTS WERE. 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.000 ALL RIGHT. 11 PERCENT 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:11.000 SAID THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT A CULTURE BROKER 00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:14.000 IS. AND 89 PERCENT 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.000 SAID NO, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A CULTURE BROKER IS. I WI 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:20.000 LL TAKE TIME TO EXPLAIN WHAT A CULTURAL BROKER 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.000 IS FOR US. A CULTURAL BROKER IS 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.000 AN INDIVIDUAL IS FROM THE COMMUNITY 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:30.000 YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO SERVE. 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:33.000 IT IS A PERSON WHO IS FROM THE COMMUNITY WHO 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:36.000 UNDERSTANDS THE CULTURE BECAUSE THEY ARE 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.000 BORN INTO IT. AND ESSENTIALLY H 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.000 ELP US TO BRIDGE A TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:47.000 MUCH SOONER THAN IF I WERE TO WORK 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.000 AS A PERSON TRYING TO BRIDGE THAT 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.000 GAP. BECAUSE I WOULD NOT BE TRUSTED AUTOMATIC 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:56.000 ALLY. SO, WE ENDED UP 00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:00.000 , I WILL GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION THAT SOMEONE HAD 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:03.000 HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO BUILD TRUST. WE SPENT 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:07.000 ALMOST A YEAR AND A HALF, JUST 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:10.000 MEETING WITH, AND GOING TO, WE WERE HOSTING 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:13.000 THE DINNERS OUT IN CALLED 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:16.000 CALDWELL, 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:19.000 IDAHO, HIGH POPULATION OF LATINOS IN THE /TKPH 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:22.000 COMMUNITY. WE WERE JUST MEETING PEOP 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:26.000 LE AND SPENDING TIME AND SHARING THE MEAL LIKE THE 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.000 DINNERS THAT MEL TALKED ABOUT. AND WE AR 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:32.000 E NOT THERE TO BRING IN OUR ANNUAL REPORT 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:35.000 OR TALK ABOUT WHAT SERVICE THEY CAN GET 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:38.000 OR TALK WHAT THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY WAS. WE 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:41.000 WERE JUST THERE. TO BE PRESENT. 00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:44.000 TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS. AND 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:48.000 ALONG THE LINES WE MET A WOMAN 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:51.000 WHO WAS WORKING AS A SERVICE COORDINAT 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:54.000 OR AND IS MEXICAN AMERICAN. 00:33:54.000 --> 00:34:00.000 WE ESSENTIALLY COURTED 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:03.000 HER FOR A YEAR, TO TRY AND LEARN 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:07.000 WHAT HER GOALS WAS FOR THE COMMUNITY, WHAT IS HER 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:11.000 DREAMS. AND KIND OF IN EXCHANGE OF 00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:14.000 , INFORMATION TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS LIKE YOU W 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:17.000 OULD DO WITH A FRIEND. AND 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:20.000 EVENTUALLY SHE SHARED WITH US, THAT HER 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:23.000 DREAM FOR THE COMMUNITY WAS TO HAVE A 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:26.000 CONFERENCE THAT IS HELD IN SPANISH WHERE THE 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:29.000 PRESENTERS WERE SPANISH SPEAKING, THE MATERIALS WERE 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:33.000 PROVIDED IN SPANISH, AND IT WOULD BE FOR 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:36.000 SPANISH SPEAKING FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS. AND AT THAT POI 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:40.000 NT, WE THOUGHT, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:43.000 HELP WITH. WE WERE ABLE TO SAY, WE THINK 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.000 WE CAN HELP YOU MAKE THIS DREAM A REALITY. PA 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:49.000 SO SHE WAS WORKING WITH THE GROUP OF MOMS CALLED THE 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:52.000 SENORAS. WHO CAN 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:56.000 HAD CHILDREN AND ADULTS 00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.000 WHO HAD INDUCT TALL DISABI 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.000 INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIE 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.000 S. WE WERE ATTENDING THE MEETINGS. AND 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:09.000 IF THEY CAME UP WITH SOMETHING THEY COULDN'T DO, 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:13.000 FOR EXAMPLE, THE FIRST PRESENTER WAS FROM P /A* 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:16.000 ANAMA, A MOM TALKING ABOUT, 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:19.000 GETTING HER SON'S NEEDS MET. 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.000 THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT THE FUNDING 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:26.000 OF HOW TO GET HER HERE TO BE THE 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:29.000 KEYNOTE PRESENTER FOR THE CONFERENCE. WE W 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:32.000 ERE ABLE TO SAY, WE CAN 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:35.000 HELP YOU WITH IF YOU WOULD LIKE THE HELP. THEY D 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:38.000 ISCUSS IT, AND GAVE US PERMISSION TO 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:41.000 HELP WITH THE NEED. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS LI 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:44.000 KE FOR YOU IN YOUR STAT 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:47.000 ES, WE WORK WITH A FISCAL 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:51.000 DIVISION THAT IS OUT OF YOUR AGENCY. 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.000 WE HAD TO GO THROUGH A LOT OF HOOPS FOR SOME REASON 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:57.000 TO BRING IN SOMEONE FROM PANAMA 00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:00.000 WHEN WE WERE GETTING FEEDBACK, 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:03.000 WHY NOT BRING SOMEBODY FROM OKLAHOMA. WHY 00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:07.000 DO YOU HAVE TO BRING SOMEBODY 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.000 FROM OUT OF THE COUNTRY. IT IS RECREATION 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:13.000 EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE WHO 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:16.000 DON'T UNDERSTAND, TO HELP 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:19.000 THEM UNDERSTAND, THIS IS THE NEEDS OF THE 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:22.000 COMMUNITY AND WE ARE COMMITTED TO FULFILL THE NEEDS. 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:26.000 WE ARE NOT QUESTIONING THEIR REQUEST 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:29.000 , THEY MADE THIS REQUEST AND WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:32.000 TO MEET THEM WHERE THEY SAID 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:36.000 THEY HAVE A NEED. EVENTUALLY, THEY WERE FINGERING OUT 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:39.000 IT FISCAL AND IT ALL HAPPENED AND THAT IS A KEY 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:42.000 TO CONVINCING 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.000 THE CULTURAL BROKER TO COME ON AS A 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.000 CONTRACTOR TO THE COUNCIL. BECAUSE 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.000 WE WERE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE, WE ARE NOT 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:55.000 HERE TO PUSH STUFF ON THE COMMUNITY AND SAY, 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.000 YOU HAVE TO HAVE THIS, IT IS DEMONSTRATING, 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:02.000 WE ARE HERE TO LISTEN AND FILL IN, YOU WILL 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:05.000 TELL US EVENTUALLY WHAT THE NEED IS, AND WE WILL DO 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:08.000 EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MEET THAT NEED. S 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:11.000 O WE'VE HAD 3 OF 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:14.000 THREE OF THE CONFERENCES SINCE THE 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:17.000 RELATIONSHIP IS ESTABLISHED. AND EVERY YEAR IT GROWS 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:20.000 . AND THE LAST CONFERENCE WAS LAST UPSET 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:24.000 SEPTEMBER. WE 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:28.000 PAID FOR A BUS, THAT WE WENT TO EASTERN 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:31.000 IDAHO. WE HAVE A POPULATION OF LATINOS LIVING. AND 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.000 WE BROUGHT OVER HUNDRED FAMILIES 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.000 AND INDIVIDUALS ON THAT BUS TO JOIN US FOR 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:40.000 A CONFERENCE THAT IS HELD AT THE HISPANIC 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:44.000 CULTURAL CENTER. AND IT WAS REALLY, THE FIRST TIME 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:47.000 THESE FAMILIES HAD ANY CONNECTION TO 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:51.000 UNDERSTANDING THERE ARE SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:54.000 THEIR CHILDREN THAT CAN HELP 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:57.000 WITH WHATEVER THE NEED IS. BUT, 00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:00.000 FOR THE MOST PART, THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:03.000 INFORMATION, OR ACCESS TO SERVICES. AND TH 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:07.000 IS IS, A SLOW PROCESS, 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:10.000 OF BOTH IDENTIFYING WHERE THE 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:13.000 DISPARITIES ARE AND ACCESSING 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:17.000 THE SERVICE AND THEN TRYING TO CONNECT THEM TO THE 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:19.000 RIGHT AGENCY WITH THE COUNCIL BEING SORT OF THE BRIDG 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:23.000 E. THEY WILL COME TO US AND 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:26.000 SAY, WE WANT TO BE CERTIFIED 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:29.000 HOME PROVIDERS BUT IT REQUIRES A 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:32.000 CLASS AND IT IS NOT OFFERED IN SPANISH. SO WE ARE T 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:35.000 HE BRIDGE TO THE LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY. TO 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:38.000 PRESENT TO THE AGENCY THAT IS IN CHAR 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:41.000 GE OF THE OVERSITE OF THE P 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:45.000 ROGRAM TO HELP PROVIDE THE EDUCATION SO WE CAN 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:48.000 GO TO THE STEPS OF 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:51.000 BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS AND HOLD 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:54.000 ING A CLASS IN SPANISH TO SP 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:57.000 ANISH FAMILIES CAN BE A CERTIF 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:01.000 IED HOME PROVIDER. THAT IS ONE 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:04.000 EXAMPLE, WHERE THE COUNCIL ROLE IS AS A 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:08.000 MEDIATOR AND PROPPING UP THE 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:11.000 LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY TO LEAD THAT EDUCATION TO THE 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:14.000 AGENCY THAT NEEDS TO HEAR WHERE THEY 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.000 NEED TO CHANGE THINGS IN ORDER THAT ALL 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:20.000 PEOPLE ACCESS THE SERVICE. SO I HO 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.000 PE THAT GIVES YOU A GOOD UNDERSTANDING WHAT A CULTURAL 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:27.000 BROKER IS, AND 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.000 I DON'T KNOW SIDNA 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:33.000 IF THERE IS SPECIFIC QUESTIONS IS 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:36.000 SINCE I EXPLAINED THAT >> WE HA 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.000 VE A QUESTION OF DO YOU HAVE 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:43.000 ADVICE WORKING WITH COUNCIL 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:46.000 MEMBERS OR CIL, THAT DO 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:50.000 N'T WANT TO HINDER THE PROCESS? AND THERE IS A 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:53.000 QUESTION, INVITED TO PLACE, YOU GO AS A CIL 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:56.000 OR CIL REP OR INDI 00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:59.000 VIDUAL? >> CHRISTINE PISANI: THE FIRST QUESTION IS 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:02.000 ADVICE ABOUT WORKING WITH YOUR SILC OR DD 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:07.000 COUNCIL MEMBERS? AND IT IS JUST, 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.000 UNWAIVERING COMMITMENT TO 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.000 PRESENT THE FACTS ABOUT WHERE THE 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:17.000 DISPARITIES ARE, REMINDING IN 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:20.000 WHAT IS IN THE FEDERAL LAW. AND 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.000 OUR FEDERAL LAW, IT IS 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:27.000 UNSERVED AND UNDERSERVED, AND 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:30.000 THERE IS ALSO REFERENCE TO PROVIDING 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:33.000 LINGUISTIC ACCESS TO 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:36.000 SERVICES. SO WE HAVE TO DO A LO 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:39.000 T OF REMINDING OF THAT, AND WE HAVE TO DO A LOT OF 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:42.000 TRAINING AROUND THE TOPIC. SO 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:45.000 MEL AND I BOTH PARTICIPATED IN GEORGETOW 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:48.000 N UNIVERSITY HAD AN I 00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:51.000 MMERSION TRAINING THEY OFFERED IN 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:54.000 CULTURE AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE. 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:58.000 THEY HOST THE UNIVERSITY CENTER AND 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:01.000 THEIR FOCUS, IT IS THE NATIONAL CENTER 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:04.000 ON CULTURE AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE. WE HAVE THE 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.000 ABILITY TO FOR A WEEK, LEA 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.000 RN ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS THAT 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.000 REALLY GAVE US GREAT TOOLS TO BE ABLE 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:16.000 TO BRING BACK TO THE COUNCILS TO HELP THEM 00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:21.000 UNDERSTAND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WE WERE NOT SERVING. 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:24.000 AND THAT OUR LAW DICTATES THAT 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:28.000 WE WILL SERVE ALL PEOPLE. AND TO WORK TO ADDRESS 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:31.000 DISPARITIES. SO IT IS AN ONGOING 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:34.000 WORK. AND I WOULD SAY, IF YOU HAVE MEMBERS THAT 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:38.000 HAVE ISSUES WITH THIS, EVEN AFTER PROVIDING 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.000 TRAINING TO GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:44.000 SAY THAT IS OKAY, WE ARE NOT GOING TO WIN IT WITH 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:48.000 ALL PEOPLE AND TO INVEST IN THE PEOPLE WHO 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:51.000 DO BELIEVE IN THE WORK, AND YOU WILL FIND PEOPLE 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:54.000 AS YOU CONTINUE TO DO THE WORK, ESPECIALLY PEOPL 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:57.000 E THAT REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY THAT YOU ARE SERVING 00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.000 , WHO WANT TO SERVE ON YOUR COUNCIL 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:03.000 BECAUSE THEY SEE THE COMMITMENT THAT YOU ARE MAKING TO 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:06.000 THAT POPULATION. AND THEY WANT TO BE PART 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:10.000 OF, EDUCATING THE 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:13.000 COUNCIL AS WELL AS INVESTING IN THE COMMUNITY, AND BEFORE 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:16.000 WE STARTED THIS WORK, WE DIDN'T HAVE PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIK 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:19.000 E THE PEOPLE WE WERE SERVING, SO WHY T 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.000 HEY WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR COUNCIL. SO, IT IS 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:25.000 REGIVEN US THE OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN A LO 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.000 T OF AMAZING FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS ON THE COUNCIL 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.000 WHO GIVE US A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL OF EDUCATION A 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:35.000 ND REMIND 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:38.000 US ON A CONSTANT BASIS HOW AND WHO WE ARE 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:41.000 LEAVING OUT. WHICH IS ALWAYS GREAT FOR 00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:45.000 COUNCIL TO HEAR. SO I HOPE THAT 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:48.000 ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION. >> MEL LEVITON: 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:52.000 SO, THIS IS MEL. WE'VE HAD 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:56.000 OPPORTUNITIES, WE'VE DONE, 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:59.000 DONE SOME TRAININGS AND PARTICIPATED IN SOME 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:02.000 CONFERENCES FOR VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATI 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.000 ONS ACTIVE AND DISASTER. 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:09.000 AND I CAN SPEAK OF, AND WE AS THE 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:13.000 STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL, WE 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:16.000 SPONSORED SOME OF 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:20.000 THE STAFF AND ACROSS THE STATE TO GO TO THE 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:23.000 CONFERENCE. AND A S 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:26.000 TAFF PERSON, ACTUALLY COUPLE STAFF PEOPLE 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:29.000 FROM CENTERS 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:32.000 MADE DISPARAGING 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:36.000 COMMENTS ABOUT THE LATINO 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:40.000 X COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE SERVING. 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:43.000 ONE OF THE THINGS.... WE PARTICIPATED 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:46.000 IN THE WORKSHOPS AND WE GIRLFRIE 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.000 GAVE WORKSHOPS. IN 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:53.000 EMERGENCY PREP WORK, THAT WE HAVE DONE, WE 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:56.000 WERE INITIALLY ASKED FOR OUR BY 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.000 THE MIGRANT COUNCIL WHO WORK 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:02.000 S IN EDUCATING KIDS, AND KEEPING THEIR EDUCATION 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.000 GOING ALONG WITH THEM AS THEY GO 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:08.000 ACROSS IDAHO UP INTO WASHINGTON AND 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:13.000 BACK DOWN, THEY KEEP THE SCHOOL RECORDS FROM 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:15.000 KINDERGARTEN TO HIGH SCHOOL. IT IS A SUPER COOL 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:18.000 PROGRAM. AND THEN THE KIDS GET 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:22.000 SCHOLARSHIP 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:28.000 MONEY FOR COLLEGE. WE WERE INVITED TO 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:32.000 DO A WORKSHOP. IT IS IN ORDER FOR A F 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:35.000 AMILY BE PREPARED, SHOULD THEY BE PICKED 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:38.000 UP BY ICE. AND THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:41.000 WE HAD NECESSARILY THOUGHT ABOUT THAT WE 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:44.000 WERE DOING THE EMERGENCY PREP WORK FOR, BUT THAT IS 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:48.000 WHAT WE ENDED UP DOING IT FOR. 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:51.000 SO I WAS, WHEN WE WERE AT THE 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:54.000 VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION'S 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:57.000 ACTIVE IN DISASTER, 00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:01.000 AND TRYING TO 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:04.000 PRESENT HOW WE DID THIS TRAINING AND 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.000 HELP DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES BE 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:10.000 PREPARED AS A EMERGENCY 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:13.000 N EMERGENCY OR DISASTER, THERE WAS A /TKROEG TORE 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:17.000 DEROGATORY 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:20.000 COMMENTS. THEY WERE NOT MY STAFF PEOPLE. BUT THEY WERE 00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:23.000 PEOPLE WE HAVE PAID FOR. AND THAT IS, 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:26.000 THAT IS WHERE WITH STAFF, I HAVE TO 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:30.000 , AND THEY ARE NOT MY STAFF BUT THEY ARE 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:33.000 PEOPLE THAT I PAID FOR TO COME. AND I AM SITTING 00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:36.000 HERE AT A TABLE OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:39.000 HAVING A CONVERSATION, IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:42.000 COMFORTABLE OR NOT TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? THOS 00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:45.000 E KIND OF COMMENTS ARE NOT 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:48.000 APPROPRIATE. AND 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:52.000 I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE AWAY FROM F THAT IS 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:55.000 IF THAT IS HOW YOU FEEL BUT KEEP IT 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:58.000 TO YOURSELF HERE, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR THAT. 00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:01.000 AND IF YOU WOULD LI 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.000 KE TO LEARN MORE, I AM HAPPY 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:08.000 TO TALK TO YOU. OFF, 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:11.000 SOMEPLACE ELSE. AT ANOTHER TIME. 00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:14.000 I WILL NOT HAVE THE CONVERSATION NOW. AND I 00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:19.000 KEEP THESE IN MIND, IF THERE IS A CONVERSATION, UMM, 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:21.000 AND IT SEEMS 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:25.000 PRODUCTIVE AND THE PERSON IS OPEN TO TRYING TO LEARN MORE, 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:29.000 MAYBE WE SPONSOR THEM FOR ANOTHER 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:33.000 EVENT. I WILL KEEP IT IN MY HEAD THIS, PERSON 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:36.000 WILL NOT BUILD UP WHAT NEEDS TO BE BU 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:39.000 ILD UP. I WILL REMEMBER THAT. 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:42.000 IT MAYBE HARSH BUT I WILL NOT 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:45.000 PUT UP WITH THAT. THEY ARE NOT THAT 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:48.000 WAY IN FRONT OF ME. >> TO MEL'S POI 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:51.000 NT, THAT WE DO THE WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH THE 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:54.000 COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE SERVING, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I T 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:57.000 HINK FOR US IS TO MAKE THAT COMMUNITY FEEL 00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:01.000 COMFORTABLE. AND IF THE COMMENTSES ARE BEING 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:04.000 MADE, THAT GENTLEM 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:07.000 GENTLE 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:11.000 JEOPARDIZES IT. MEL 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:14.000 SAYS, KEEPING THOSE FOLKS IN MIND, IT IS IN 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:17.000 AN ATTEMPT TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY THAT BETTER TRY 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.000 ING TO SERVE, WELCOME THEM AND 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:24.000 CREATE A SAFE SPACE. SO, 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:26.000 >> MEL LEVITON: ANOTHER THING ON THAT NOTE. BECAUSE THIS IS A 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:30.000 BIG SCREW UP THAT WE DID, THAT WEDNESDAY TO FIX. 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:33.000 PRETTY QUICKLY. SO I DON'T KNOW 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:36.000 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW BUT LIKE YOU PUT IN A PHON 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:39.000 E, SOMETHING THAT I IS AS 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:42.000 SAYS IN CASE OF EMERGE 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:46.000 NCY, YOU CONTACT, IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, YOU 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.000 CONTACT MY BROTHER OR SISTER, 00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:53.000 WHOEVER, YOU PUT IN 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:57.000 ICE, IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. THAT IS ALSO A LOGO 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.000 USED ON A RED CROSS, WHEN Y 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:03.000 OU ARE DOING EMERGENCY P 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:07.000 REPAREDNESS WORK. THERE IS A RED CROSS, AND 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:11.000 IN THE ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF IT, IS 00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:14.000 ICE. IN CASE OF EMER 00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:17.000 GENCY. THAT IS WHAT IT STANDS FOR. BUT THAT 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:20.000 IS NOT ALL ICE STAND 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:23.000 S FOR. WE HAD TO GO THROUGH ALL OF TH 00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:26.000 E EMERGENCY PREP DOCUMENTS IN ENGLISH, AND 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:29.000 SPANISH AND PUL 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.000 L ICE OUT OF IT ALL. AND 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:35.000 PRINTED A COUPLE OF HUNDRED OF THEM. NICE PAPE 00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.000 R AND EVERYTHING. AND WE HAD TO PITCH I 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:42.000 T ALL. AND I HAD A STAFF PERSON 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:45.000 SAY WE HAVE TO GET RID OF AL 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:48.000 L THIS? YES. ONE PERSON CAN 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:51.000 SEE THAT, AND IT IS AUTOMATIC, IT IS NOT GOOD. AND WE 00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:54.000 DON'T NEED THAT. AND YOU DON'T LOSE ANYTHING BUT 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:57.000 HAVING A SIMPLE RED CROSS ON THE LOGO. YOU DON'T LO 00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:00.000 SE ANYTHING. THAT IS ONE EXAMPLE OF, 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.000 YOU KNOW, MAKING A MISTAKE AND TRYING TO 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.000 FIX IT QUICKLY. >> IT IS KNOWING THE 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:10.000 CULTURAL YOU ARE SERVING AND WHAT THAT 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:13.000 CULTURAL IS UP AGAINST. 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:16.000 IN CURRENT EVENTS. >> 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:19.000 CHRISTINE AND MEL, WE HAVE TEN MINUTES LEFT AND I H 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:22.000 AVE TWO MORE QUESTIONS FOR YOU. THE FIRS 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.000 T ONE AGAIN WHEN YOU ARE INVITED TO GO PLACES 00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:29.000 YOU ARE GOING AS SILC, A 00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:32.000 CIL REP OR A 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:35.000 N INDIVIDUAL. THE SECOND QUESTION I WANT TO ASK, 00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:38.000 PLEASE 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:42.000 DESCRIBE YOUR BACKDROP, IT IS TOO 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:45.000 COOL. >> CHRISTINE PISANI: 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:48.000 I WILL LET MEL TO TAKE A 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:51.000 STAB. >> MEL LEVITON: I 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:55.000 FORGOT THE QUESTION. 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:58.000 SO, G 00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:01.000 ENERALLY, IF I AM, IF I AM ASKED BECAUSE I 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:04.000 GO OUT AND MEET PEOPLE AND I KNOW LOTS OF PEOPL 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:08.000 E, I AM ASKED IN THE CONTEXT OF MY JOB, 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:11.000 SO, 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:14.000 I GUESS, I GO 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:18.000 AS THAT. WHEN I, WHEN WE STARTED GOING TO THE 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:21.000 COMMUNITY DINNERS WE JUST WENT. 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.000 YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T BRING BUSINESS CARDS AND ALL 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:27.000 THAT KIND OF STUFF. WE GUST 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:30.000 JUST GO. OTHER EVENTS, IT I 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:33.000 S KIND OF A BOTH THING. I AM, 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.000 I GUESS 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:40.000 I GO AS ME FIRST, BUT I AM REPRESENTING 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:43.000 AN ORGANIZATION. IF THE PEOPLE 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:46.000 WHO INVITED ME THINK I NEED TO 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:49.000 CONNECT WITH SOMEONE OR SOMEONE SHOULD CONNECT WITH 00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:52.000 ME. THEN, THAT WILL B 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:55.000 E MORE ON THAT PROFESSIONAL LEVEL. SO THAT 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:59.000 , I AM REPRESENTING THE 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:03.000 SILC, IT IS KIND OF BOTH. BUT MY 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:05.000 , I DON'T WEAR MY 00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:08.000 WORK NAME TAG. I WEAR T 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:12.000 HE NAME TAG OF THE 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.000 WHATEVER THE CONFERENCE IS USING OR WHATEVER THE EVE 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:18.000 NT IS USING. IF THEY DON'T USE NAME TAGS, 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:21.000 I DON'T USE NAME TAGS. IT IS 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:24.000 DO WHAT THEY DO. BECAUSE SOMETIME 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:28.000 S WE ARE INVITED THERE, PERSONALLY, AND SOMETIMES WE ARE 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:31.000 INVITED THERE PROFESSIONALLY. I KIND OF, WHEN 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:34.000 YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR OF SOMETHING, YOU DON'T TAKE THAT HAT 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:38.000 OFF OFTEN. IT IS KIND OF BACK THERE. 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:41.000 TO PULL UP. >> CHRISTINE PISANI: I WOULD 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:44.000 ECHO RESPONSE TO THE 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:47.000 QUESTION. IT IS A DIFFERENT MINDSET WHEN 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.000 YOU ARE DOING THIS WORK, YOU ARE 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:53.000 NEVER GOING TO DD COUNCIL OR 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:56.000 SILC. IT IS JUST TO BE AN OBSERVER OF 00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:00.000 THE COMMUNITY. AND IF THEY ASK YOU, OR 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:02.000 THEY WANT TO CONNECT YOU TO A FAMILY OR I 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:07.000 THE INDIVIDUAL, THAT IS A DIFFERENT THING, SOMEONE IS 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.000 SEEKING YOU OUT BECAUSE OF 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:13.000 THE JOB. I AM THERE TO 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:17.000 ABSORB AND BUILD RELATIONSHIPS. I DON'T SPEND 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:20.000 TIME TALKING ABOUT THE DD CO 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:24.000 UNCIL. IT IS LEARNING THEIR NEEDS AND 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:27.000 JOIN WHATEVER IT IS, THAT IS HAPPENING. BECAUSE 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:32.000 THAT TEACHES ME SOMETHING AS WELL. 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:35.000 THE BANNER, KOREA 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:38.000 CREATED THIS BANNER BECAUSE, 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:41.000 WHEN COVID FIRST STARTED HAPPENING, WE DID 00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.000 A SURVEY, AND 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:48.000 WE DID A SURVEY OF INDIVIDUALS AND FA 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:52.000 MILIES, AND INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES TOLD US THEY ARE STRUGGLING 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:56.000 INDIVIDUALS SAID THEY WERE STRUGGLING WITH 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:59.000 COPING STRATEGIES WITH ANXIETY, 00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:02.000 THROUGH THE ROOF. AND FAMILIES WERE 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:05.000 STRUGGLING BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DO 00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:09.000 EVERYTHING TO DO, TEACHER, PARENT, 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:12.000 PERSONAL CARE SUPPORT, PROVIDER. WE START 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:15.000 ED TO DO WEBINARS ON SOME STRATEGIES AND 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:18.000 SOME TIPS THAT WOULD 00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:21.000 HELP PEOPLE, MEDITATION, VARIA 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:24.000 VARIOUS THINGS WE THOUGHT 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:27.000 IT WOULD BE FUN TO DO THE BACKDROP. WHEN 00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:30.000 WE DO THE ZOOM WEBINARS, WE PROVIDE IN 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:33.000 ENGLISH AND WE HAVE TWO SPANISH INTERPRETERS, WE HAVE AN ENG 00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:36.000 LISH AND A SPANISH CHANNEL THAT WE DO THROUGH ZOOM. 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:40.000 SO THE SPANISH SPEAKING 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:43.000 COMMUNITY THAT WE BUILD RELATIONSHIP CAN PARTICIPATE AND IT IS 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:46.000 TRANSLATED IN REAL-TIME. WE D 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:49.000 ECIDED IT WOULD BE NICE TO REA 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:53.000 SSURE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:56.000 IN THIS TOGETHER. AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO 00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:00.000 , WE ARE GOING TO DO OUR BEST TO SUPPORT THE 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.000 COMMUNITY THE BEST WE CAN. SO THAT IS THE 00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:06.000 STORY. >> MEL LEVITON: I HAVE TO THROW I 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.000 N. I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT WE ARE 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:13.000 PARTICIPATING IN THIS CULTURAL COMPETENCY 00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:16.000 OPPORTUNITY WITH THE DD COUNCIL. THEY SHARED WITH 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:20.000 US AND THAT HAS 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:23.000 THE SEPARATE ROOM FOR THE SPANISH INTE 00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:27.000 RPRETERS AND THAT IS LIKE A 00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:31.000 WHOLE OTHER LEVEL OF ACCESS 00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:34.000 THAT I AM REALLY ANXIOUS TO LEARN 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:37.000 ABOUT. WE ARE, WE ARE USED TO PROVIDING 00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:40.000 ASL INTERPRETERS AND THE CLOSE CAPTIONING 00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:44.000 BUT TO ALSO BRING IN A SPANISH INTERPRETERS 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:47.000 . WE DO THAT AT WORKSHOPS, WE DO IT 00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:50.000 AT THE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:53.000 WORKSHOPS. AND THAT IS ONE THING TO DO IT O 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:56.000 N A ZOOM CALL, IT IS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE 00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:59.000 . IT WORKS. MAKE THE TECHNOLOGY WORK. 00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:03.000 >> IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT MISTAKES YOU CAN 00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:06.000 HEAR THE TRIAL AND ERROR, IN THE WE 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:09.000 BINARS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH. IT TOOK US 00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:12.000 THREE MONTHS TO GET IT RIGHT. IT TOOKS US 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:15.000 US A LONG T 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:18.000 IME TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO GET TO THE RIGHT LANGUAGE CHANNEL. NO 00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:21.000 W, WE PROVIDE TRAINING AND WHEN 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:24.000 WE DO IT EVERY TIME. BECAUSE WE HAVE 00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:27.000 NEW PEOPLE JOINING US. AND IT HAS 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:30.000 BEEN, IT HAS BEEN ONE WAY, TO CONTI 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:34.000 NUE PROVIDING EDUCATION AND DEVELOP LEADERS 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:37.000 DURING THIS PANDEMIC. 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:40.000 WHICH IS PRESENTED ALL KINDS OF STRANGE BARRIE 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:43.000 RS. SO.... >> 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:46.000 I WANT TO THANK BOTH OF YOU, 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:49.000 YOU DID A WONDERFUL JOB. AND THE ATTENDEES. 00:55:49.000 --> 00:55:52.000 I KEPT TRACK. ONE OF THE TIME 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:55.000 S I LOOKED DOWN, YOU HAD 11 00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:58.000 1 PEOPLE PARTICIPATING, THAT IS AWESOME. FOR 00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:02.000 EVERYBODY WHO PARTICIPATED, I WANT TO REMIND YOU, 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:05.000 WE HAVE AN EVALUATION PUT UP AND FILL 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:08.000 IT OUT NOT JUST THIS SESSION BUT ALL 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:11.000 SESSIONS, THIS IS VALUABLE TO US. I WANT TO 00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:14.000 REMIND YOU, THAT THE RECORDS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:17.000 CONFERENCE WEBSITE. AND IF YOU HAVE, ANY QUESTIONS 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:21.000 PLEASE LET US KNOW, ALL THROUGHOUT THE CONFERENCE. WE 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:24.000 APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S HELP AND EVERYBODY'S PAR 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:27.000 PARTICIPATION. THANK YOU GUYS. >> 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:30.000 THANKS A BUNCH. >> THANKS A 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:33.000 BUNCH. >> THANK YOU BOTH. >> 00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:40.000 THANK YOU. >> HAVE A GREAT CONFERENCE.