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2 Contents Introduction 2 Community Oversight Team 6 Executive Summary 10 Education 16 Youth Services 25 Housing and Community Deveopment 33 Cutura Arts 44 Economic Deveopment 57 Heath 72 Civic Engagement 81 Transportation 87 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 1.

3 Introduction The Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative began as a muti-phase process that took demographic research, trend and data anaysis and created community engagement opportunities to gain input and create oversight team review cuminating in this fina recommendation report for the City of Austin eadership and the entire Austin community. The work refected in this report began with a May 8, 2008, Austin City Counci Resoution (see Appendix) directing impementation of a Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative. The goa of the initiative was to answer the foowing questions for Austin: Is the quaity of ife experience of Hispanics/Latinos significanty different from the quaity of ife experienced by the rest of Austin and other demographic groups? Is the City of Austin providing programs, services, financia assistance and other opportunities to enhance the quaity of ife for Hispanics/Latinos? On Apri 22, 2010, the City Counci passed another resoution (see Appendix) that created the Hispanic/Latino Community Oversight Team to carry out the mission of the Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative. This report aims to answer these questions and provide insight on the concusions reached by the Community 2 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

4 Oversight Team. As a way to advance the work that needs to be done, we strongy recommend the creation of a Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Resource Advisory Commission. Based on the beief that the City of Austin is sincere in its desire for Austin to provide a high quaity of ife for a residents, the Austin Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Oversight Team undertook its charge to evauate the quaity of ife for Austin s Hispanic/Latino popuation from a position of mutua respect and common ground. In the amost three years since our task force began its review of the quaity of ife for Hispanic/Latinos in Austin, we have hed many meetings, had many conversations, and done some sou-searching on the hopes, dreams and aspirations of Hispanic/ Latinos of yesterday, today and moving toward tomorrow. In addition to the various community meetings, we hed a Town Ha Meeting on May 16, 2013, where residents had the opportunity to address the Community Oversight Team, submit comments in writing and pubicay testify. We even set up an emai address to receive eectronic comments. The history of Hispanic/Latinos has been woven into the fabric of Austin for generations. Schoos, streets and historic buidings bear our names. Our hoidays are Austin ceebrations. Our music, food and beverages, customs and cuture are deepy intertwined with Austin itsef. Yet, despite our bonds, despite our connections, Hispanic/Latinos sometimes fee invisibe, on the outside ooking in. Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 3

5 When it comes to the economy, we can fee marginaized when we see new construction, deveopment and prosperity a around us, yet don t fee this progress refected in our neighborhoods or communities. As taxpayers in the City of Austin, Hispanics/ Latinos are committed to securing economic investments by the City of Austin in the Hispanic/Latino community through the gamut of initiatives incuding business deveopment, entrepreneurship, empoyment and skis training, mentoring, economic incentives, access to capita, partnerships, and impementation of City poicies and programs pertinent to empoyment, contracting and disbursement of city, state and federa funds in an equitabe manner to the Hispanic/Latino community. Further, we are committed to securing our proportionate share of socia program funding for the Hispanic/Latino community, since safety net security in chidcare, heath, housing and other socia services assures the basic necessities which are the bedrock of economic deveopment. The Austin economy in genera and the Hispanic/Latino communities in particuar woud benefit from an economic deveopment cimate that acts as a catayst for investment in the Hispanic/Latino business community, as we as strategies to strengthen the socia network to provide for economic sustainabiity. Therefore, our approach understands that capitaism rewards return on investment. We appreciate and want to take advantage of the emerging trend in which corporations invest in ways that are sociay responsibe. On each of these initiatives and programs, we recommend that the appropriate department of the City provide oversight, evauation/accountabiity and outcomes in the form of annua reports to be submitted to the proposed Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Resource Advisory Commission. We recommend that a city, state, and federa funds be identified in those aforementioned annua reports to ensure appropriate expenditures per program/initiative. When it comes to business, often the prosperity we hear about is anecdota and does not come from peope within our community. For a of the new business start-ups we hear about, we aso know there are Hispanic/Latino-owned businesses strugging to survive. 4 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

6 In terms of education, we see too many of our students strugging to graduate and too many of our chidren overrepresented in the areas of dropout rates and truancy and underrepresented in terms of coege and career success stories. When it comes to heath, too many of our youth are becoming parents too eary, and too many have sexuay-transmitted diseases. Our community is aso overrepresented when it comes to preventabe or manageabe aiments such as obesity, diabetes and high bood pressure. In terms of housing, our neighborhoods are feeing the effects of gentrification. Too many of our homesteads have been ost due to inabiity to pay rising property taxes, and we find ourseves in a position of no onger being abe to remain in the neighborhoods where we grew up. And, the options for affordabe housing are not keeping pace with the need in Austin. The November 2012 oss of a City bond eection item to address this issue met with defeat, much to our disappointment. We beieve that our cuture is the cuture of Austin. Our hoidays and commemorations are usuay citywide ceebrations and events, yet too many of our cutura arts organizations are starved for funding and resources in a city we-known for supporting the arts. Our cutura institutions are underdeveoped. When it comes to civic engagement, too many Hispanic/Latinos are sitting on the sideines rather than invoved in the process of governing and managing our city. Many participants in the Hispanic/Latino Quaify of Life forums did not fee weinformed about issues reated to economic deveopment, workforce deveopment, affordabe housing, buiding weath for famiies and resource deveopment for businesses to fee empowered to get invoved. Our voices shoud be heard in a facets of city government, on boards and commissions, and a eves of our community, making a difference on the issues that affect us a. And, the pathways for our youth to become tomorrow s eaders shoud be created today in the form of internships, exposure to mentors, and summer job opportunities. As we progressed through this endeavor, we kept in our minds and hearts the foowing advice: We cannot seek achievement for ourseves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...our ambitions must be broad enough to incude the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. Cesar Chavez Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 5

7 Community Oversight Team CHAIR Teresa Perez-Wiseey Teresa Perez-Wiseey is a retired Internationa Union Representative for the American Federation of State, County and Municipa Empoyees Internationa Union. She represented, arbitrated, mediated and negotiated contracts for pubic and private sector workers, both in Engish and Spanish, throughout the United States and Panama. Perez-Wiseey aso worked for AFSCME Loca 1624 in Austin for a brief time before going on to the Internationa Union. She speciaized in working with minorities and Spanish speakers within the Internationa Union. Prior to her position with the AFSCME, Perez-Wiseey worked for the City of Austin Human Services Department s Comprehensive Empoyment and Training division. Perez-Wiseey graduated from the University of Texas with a Bacheor of Journaism and a Spanish minor. MEMBERS Susana Amanza Susana Amanza is a founding member and Director of PODER (Peope Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources), a grassroots environmenta, economic and socia justice organization. Amanza has overcome poverty, prejudice and segregated schoos to face down some of the word s most powerfu transnationa corporations. Amanza is an indigenous person of the continent of America and resides in East Austin. She is a ongtime community organizer, educator, mother and grandmother. Susana was a member of the civi rights movement of the Brown Berets, taking up issues of poice brutaity, quaity education and equity in schoo systems, and heath care as a right, not a priviege. Amanza is presenty serving on the City of Austin s Parks and Recreation Board and has served on the City Panning Commission, Environmenta Board and the Community Deveopment Commission. She continues her strugge for human rights demanding environmenta justice and a better quaity of ife for peope of coor, for a humanity and for future generations. In 2010, Amanza was recognized by Austin History Center/Austin Pubic Library as one of the Mexican American First Traibazers of Austin and Travis County. 6 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

8 Johnny Limon Johnny Limon was born and raised in East Austin. He retired after 30 years at Tracor Inc. He has been a vounteer in the community for neary three decades, working in the areas of gang prevention and services for the edery. He has vounteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Meas on Whees, and served on the boards of the Southwest Key Project and Famiy Edercare. He was aso appointed to the Paza Satio Redeveopment Citizen s Advisory Committee. He has served on a number of City Boards and Commissions, incuding the Community Deveopment Commission, and was one the Mayor Lee Leffingwe s appointees to the CAMPO Transit Working Group. Lupe Morin Lupe Morin has 35 years of pubic service experience in city and state government. She has served in manageria and executive eve positions in socia service departments serving the needs of ow-income famiies in the areas of homeessness, heath and housing. She is currenty serving as the Executive Director of the Hispanic Women s Network of Texas, and has served as the Interim President of the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Deputy Director of the City of Austin Neighborhood Housing and Community Deveopment Office, and Human Resources Manager for the Austin Poice Department. Morin aso has more than three decades of vounteer experience. She currenty heps the community as a mentor, adviser, and consutant and by providing support as needed to our youth, eaders in training, and other community entities. Lupe consistenty advocates for investing in our youth, young Latinas and civic engagement. Morin was the first in her famiy to graduate from high schoo and to receive a coege degree in her famiy of 13 chidren. She has received many accoades throughout her career, incuding the Si Se Puede Community Award from PODER 2013, a Woman of Distinction Award from the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce, the Estrea de Tejas Leadership Award from the Austin Chapter/Hispanic Women s Network of Texas, a Woman of Distinction Award for Community Service from the YWCA, Outstanding Woman of the Year Award from LULAC and Austin Poice Department Empoyee of the Year. Syvia Orozco Syvia Orozco is one of the Mexic-Arte Museum founders and its Executive Director since She has extensive curatoria and art administrative experience in the fied of contemporary Latino and Mexican art. She is responsibe for the deveopment of programs; curatoria eadership; deveopment of poicies and procedures with the Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 7

9 Board of Directors; faciity deveopment, pubic reations and fundraising (Engish/ Spanish). Orozco has her Bacheor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin where she graduated with high honors. She is the recipient of the Ohti Award 2007 presented by the Mexican Government and the Instituto de os Mexicanos en e Exterior of the Consuate Genera of Mexico. She has competed a course work for a Master of Fine Arts. She has aso attended the Nationa Schoo of Visua Arts, Nationa Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. Rose Reyes Rose Reyes is the Chief Operating Officer for Giant Noise, a fu-service pubic reations and events firm. Prior to joining Giant Noise, her expertise has spanned 25 years in media, music, cutura arts, marketing, entertainment, the trave industry, events production and non-profit management. Her experience incudes seven years as the Director of Music Marketing for the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau and 12 years as the Assistant Director and Fok Masters Series producer for Texas Fokife. Reyes has estabished reationships in media, music and arts communities ocay and nationay. In addition, she has worked as a consutant to arts and cuture organizations and performing artists and produced a dozen compiation CDs. Reyes ives in Austin and is the founder of Women in Music Professiona Society; has served on the board of Texas Recording Academy, Cine Las Americas, La Pena; and is a member of the City of Austin s Live Music Task Force. Geronimo Rodriguez Geronimo M. Rodriguez Jr. is the Vice President of Diversity and Community Outreach with Seton Heathcare Famiy in Austin. He has served as an Adjunct Facuty member at the LBJ Schoo of Pubic Affairs and St. Edward s University. He aso served in the White House Office of Congressiona Affairs and as Deputy Associate Director in the White House Office of Presidentia Personne. He was responsibe for advising senior White House staff on appointments affecting the Hispanic community. Rodriguez is currenty Co-Chair of the Centra Texas Heath Industry Steering Committee and Chair of the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He was one of 25 Young Americans to participate in the American Swiss Foundation Young Leaders Conference in Switzerand. He s received the Austin Under 40 Award for Government/Poitica Affairs and was named a 2005 and 2006 Rising Star by Texas Monthy. 8 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

10 As a chid, he spent eight months of each year as a migrant farmworker traveing with his parents from South Texas to the Northwest United States foowing the harvest seasons. He s a native of Aamo, Texas, graduated from St. Edward s University with a bacheor s degree. Rodriguez aso attended the Maxwe Schoo of Citizenship and Pubic Affairs at Syracuse University as a Woodrow Wison Feow, and received his aw degree from the University of Texas Schoo of Law. Thank you to the City of Austin departments that provided assistance, information and contributions for this report. A specia thank you to the foowing City of Austin staff members: Executive Sponsors Bert Lumbreras, Assistant City Mange Ray Baray, Acting Chief of Staff Rudy Garza, Former Assistant City Manager Supporting Staff Taja Beekey, former Executive Assistant to Rudy Garza Bob Corona, Interim Executive Assistant Roxanne Evans, Executive Assistant to Deputy City Manager Michae McDonad Jason Garza, Executive Assistant to Bert Lumbreras Robin Otto, Executive Assistant to Ray Baray Samantha Park, Interim Executive Assistant to Ray Baray Betsy Wodman, Graphic Designer Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 9

11 Executive Summary Athough this report sought to expore quaity of ife issues for Hispanic/Latinos in Austin, the recommendations contained within this report most directy address the ast question by providing insight into City programs, services and other opportunities avaiabe. There are recommendations in this report that wi require further discussions with the City Counci and community; therefore, the City Counci shoud create and appoint members to a Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Resource Advisory Commission within 60 days of receipt of this report. This Commission wi be responsibe for tracking progress of the Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative recommendations. To ensure a our recommendations are appied to a of Austin s Hispanic/Latino community members, the Commission shoud identify opportunities to work with the Commission on Immigrant Affairs and the Austin Mayor s Committee for Peope with Disabiities. Our immigrant and disabed popuations are vunerabe and shoud be forethought during this process, as the recommendations in this report are meant to be appied to each and every Hispanic/Latino iving in Austin, regardess of their situation, status, abiity or disabiity. The Commission s responsibiity moving forward shoud be to continue working to create a higher quaity of ife for our community members. To ensure the Commission has the necessary toos for success, a senior City executive shoud be designated to work with the Commission to hep identify and pursue pubic/private partnerships as we as city, state, county, federa and private funding to support initiatives in this report. 10 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

12 Within this report, among the highest priorities are the need for improved empoyment and promotiona opportunities, with the goa of having a City of Austin workforce that better refects the demographic makeup of our community at a position eves, an increase in biingua and cuturay-sensitive information and materias avaiabe for pubic consumption, and promote and market Austin as a cutura city, i.e. The Best Cutura Hispanic City of Texas. The report was compied after numerous meetings with individuas in the Hispanic/ Latino community, with community-based organizations and a Town Ha Meeting. This work buids on the initia work conducted by a oca consutant and incorporates some of those recommendations in addition to others. The foowing are brief, high-eve summaries of some of our recommendations: Education We beieve the City of Austin shoud continue to exert eadership by supporting the idea that every chid shoud graduate from high schoo ready for coege or vocationa training to become career ready for the workforce from the eariest age. This can be done with current and new City programs, but aso through coaborations with the oca independent schoo districts (ISDs) that support Austin. Access to eary chidhood education opportunities can ay the foundation for future academic success and shoud be a priority. Before our chidren reach schoo-age, there shoud be a support system in pace to hep parents prepare their chidren for schoo and set them on the right path. Our schoo-age chidren woud benefit from additiona programs where truancy and dropout identification, intervention and prevention can occur at an earier age for a chid. This can be done by enhancing current partnerships and coaborations with Travis County, oca ISDs, area coeges and universities, and oca non-profit organizations. Aso, if the City of Austin enhances current recreationa activities and ensures successfu programs are Photos courtesy of AISD, photographer Carmen Luevanos Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 11

13 offered year-round and in targeted areas of town, this coud hep chidren become responsibe, mature aduts. One way that woud aid in this maturation is to expand on summer youth programs and summer job opportunities to offer training and career counseing programs for Hispanic/Latino students. Youth Services We beieve in faciitating the invovement of young peope in civic activities to increase the ikeihood that they wi be civicay engaged as aduts. To make sure that the next generation of eaders deveops, the City of Austin must work to ensure that youth are part of the future visioning of the City s pans and services. The City of Austin can provide additiona mechanisms for our youth and young aduts to gain eadership skis and knowedge. We fee Hispanic/Latino youth woud be best served if the City were to coaborate with other governmenta and nonprofit entities to offer programs and services to combat truancy and other juvenie justice issues to increase graduation rates. To ensure that youth grow to be heathy aduts, there needs to be an increase in heath initiatives and services targeted at youth. A program shoud be created that offers heath casses that focus on topics of discussion such as weness, the importance of heathy foods, the benefits of gardening, the resuts of exercise and the advantages of famiy panning. Housing and Community Deveopment We beieve the City can improve the quaity and avaiabiity of decent, safe, and affordabe housing options through rehabiitation, new construction, tax exemptions, and expanded opportunities for home ownership. The City of Austin s imited income residents, which incude significant numbers of Hispanics/Latinos, woud be we-served by housing poicies that disperse affordabe 12 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

14 housing citywide, to minimize race and ethnic segregation. The City shoud aso deveop poicies that woud create more housing options for the poor and working poor and initiate efforts to sow the rate of gentrification. Cutura Arts We beieve in an incusive, accessibe and equitabe Hispanic/Latino arts community and that investments must be made now to prepare for popuation growth and community needs. The future viabiity and vitaity of our cutura institutions and organizations can be enhanced if the City nurtures and promotes Hispanic/Latino arts organizations. The City shoud focus on deveopment and competion of existing and proposed Hispanic/ Latino arts and faciity projects. Projects incude the 5th Street Mexican American Heritage Corridor, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cutura Center Phase 2 and 3, Mexic-Arte Museum, Veasquez Paza and the Satio District. There shoud be a concerted effort to ensure faciities such as the Cutura Center and City recreation centers are accessibe to Hispanic/Latino artists and arts organizations to provide cutura programming. Economic Deveopment We beieve that the City can faciitate investment in the Hispanic/Latino business community through training and mentoring, incentives, access to capita, partnerships and City poicies and contracting opportunities. Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 13

15 The Austin economy in genera and the Hispanic/Latino communities in particuar woud benefit from an economic deveopment cimate that seeks to act as a catayst for investment in the Hispanic/Latino business community through training and mentoring. This can be done through the Sma Business Deveopment Program and shoud incude training on the City s business deveopment poicies and how to start up a sma business. To ensure that Austin s business cuture is refective of its popuation, the City shoud provide incentives and access to capita doars as a way to increase the recruitment of Hispanic/Latino businesses to Austin. However, for any new business to maintain the incentives given to them, whether they are a Latino business or not, it must create jobs that pay a iving wage for a empoyees Heath We beieve there needs to be improvements for increased access to heathcare services to address heath disparities, as we as information to promote and protect a heathy community through the use of best practices and community partnerships. Improved heath outcomes for our community are critica and coud be achieved in a number of ways. First, we beieve that there needs to be improvements to the overa service deivery mode at oca heathcare and pubic heath cinics to ensure cutura and anguage barriers are broken and services provided to those who need it are met. To reach the greater Hispanic/Latino popuation, the City coud hod educationa 14 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

16 casses at recreationa centers, neighborhood centers and other City faciities to promote heathy ifestyes and heathy eating. These casses coud be a forum to promote the use of parks and trais as community gathering sites for exercise and recreation and to endorse community gardens as a means to a heathy ifestye. Civic Engagement We beieve that once we achieve a comprehensive quaity of ife for Hispanics/Latinos, then the eve of civic engagement and participation wi increase. We beieve there are a number of ways to accompish this. For exampe, we support City of Austin empoyee participation in Hispanic Austin Leadership. We aso ask that the City of Austin support eadership deveopment programs in the workpace and to deveop eadership vounteer roes A outreach to the Hispanic/Latino community shoud incude media besides Univision, such as radio 1560 AM, that reaches the Mexican-American popuation, and we support the deveopment of an annua Engagement Conference with Latino Professiona Leaders. We encourage the creation of a poo/database of Latino eaders and their areas of expertise, for distribution to Counci Members to hep diversify participation on boards and commissions and create a poo of experts. This woud hep ensure that City Boards and Commissions refect community demographics. Transportation We beieve transportation is an often overooked yet critica eement in a comprehensive quaity-of-ife strategy for Austin s Hispanic community. Roadway improvements, pedestrian pathways, mass transit and access to key business corridors are conduits to schoo, work, and pay opportunities historicay denied to the fastest growing segment of the Austin popuace. The chaenges of distance and access refect on a common thread transportation in many of the issues discussed in this report. An a-incusive approach incorporating panning and poicy essentias by the City Transportation Department, Movabiity Austin, Capita Metro and Neighborhood Contact Teams woud provide access to empoyment, education and enjoyment for the entire community. Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 15

17 Education Photos courtesy of AISD, photographer Carmen Luevanos As previousy stated, we beieve the City of Austin shoud continue to exert eadership by supporting the idea that every chid shoud graduate from high schoo and coege or vocationa training to be career ready for the workforce from the eariest age. This can be done with current and new City programs, but aso through coaborations with the oca independent schoo districts (ISDs) that support Austin. Issues The growth of Hispanic/Latinos dominates overa popuation growth in Austin. In 2010, Hispanic/Latinos in Austin were 35.1 percent of the tota popuation. The areas of the greatest growth among Hispanic/Latinos manifest themseves in the very young. The graph beow shows that 56.1 percent of Hispanic/Latinos are under age five, whie 50.9 percent are under 18. This number becomes even more significant when you consider that 45.5 percent of those under five and 40.6 percent of those under 18 are iving in poverty. The Austin Independent Schoo District (AISD) is the predominant ISD serving our community. There are some recommendations that the City of Austin has direct contro over, whie others wi require oca ISDs to take the ead. We understand that the City of Austin has no purview in the operations and poicy of an ISD; however, we beieve the City can faciitate discussions and be a vauabe partner in 16 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

18 impementing some of these recommendations. The foowing are some significant statistica education data 1 compied that was critica in the deveopment of our recommendations. Percentage of Hispanic Youth Living in Poverty Hispanic Youth and Teacher Snapshot Within AISD 1 * Texas Education Agency s Academic Exceence Indicator System (AEIS) Report ^ AISD Postsecondary Enroment Report Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 17

19 In 2011, dropout rates in AISD for Hispanic students in grades 9-12 was 13.1 percent 2. A contributing factor to this coud be that there is a ack of coaboration between governmenta, corporate and educationa entities to foster student academic exceence. We aso beieve there is a ack of summer youth programs, comprehensive mentoring programs, and an overa ack of training programs for students who are seeking non-coege careers. Eary Chidhood Socia Service Contracts provide services through subcontracting chid care, home visits, famiy iteracy and eary earning, and support to famiies, incuding famiies with medicay fragie chidren or chidren with cancer. These services aso incude famiy counseing and eary chidhood intervention for chidren with deveopmenta deays. The foowing tabe provides descriptive information regarding the number of Hispanic/Latino chidren served through these contracts. FY 2012 Chidren (ages 0-5) Served by City HHSD Socia Service Contracts Hispanic/ Latino or Latino Percent Hispanic/ Latino or Latino Not Hispanic/ Latino or Latino Percent Non- Hispanic/ Latino or Latino Ethnicity Not Specified Percent Ethnicity Not Specified Tota Served 7, % 5, % % 12, Texas Education Agency/Academic Exceence Indicator System (AEIS) Report 18 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

20 Recommended Strategies (FISCAL YEAR 2014) Urge continuing coaboration between the Joint Subcommittee of AISD, City of Austin and Travis County to recommend the group consider the recommendations from this report and the Hispanic Quaity of Life Initiative. 1. Estabish a way for the Joint Subcommitee to coaborate and communicate with the proposed Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Resource Advisory Commission. 2. Exchange work pans between the two groups, as is practica. 3. Partner as a community stakehoder to ensure support for an AISD Heathand Medica magnet schoo. 4. Estabish funding sources for eary chidhood education using the City of San Antonio s Eary Education Funding Initiative as a mode. The initiative is funded through a 1/8 penny saes tax increase. According to Saud Today, (San Antonio) Voters approved a one-eighth penny increase in saes tax to pay for four new fu-day pre-kindergarten centers, workforce training for eary chidhood educators, and grants for schoos to expand preschoo programs. ( Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 19

21 (FISCAL YEAR 2015) Eary Chidhood Care 1. Increase the eve of eary chidhood education preparedness for Hispanic/ Latino famiies through private/pubic partnerships to: a. Provide neighborhood-based eary chidhood education to ow-income Hispanic/Latino Famiies with chidren ages 0 5. b. Provide access to high-quaity chid care to famiies with chidren ages 0 5. c. Provide additiona Head Start, Eary Head Start, and simiar programs opportunities for Hispanic/Latino famiies. d. Provide two-generation educationa opportunities for chidren and their parents. These programs aow for concurrent educationa deveopment of Hispanic/Latino chidren and their parents. 2. Provide greater marketing and communication coverage to Hispanic Latino Parents on the avaiabiity of the Pre-Kindergarten, Eary Chidhood Education, and high-quaity chid care programs in both Engish and Spanish, using media outets frequented by the Hispanic Community. 3. Provide fu-day pubic schoo pre-kindergarten programs in schoos where the majority of the popuation is Hispanic. (FISCAL YEAR 2015) Expand current summer youth programs and empoyment opportunities for highrisk youth with the City of Austin. 1. The City needs to work with the various governmenta agencies to ensure there is increased participation of high-risk youth in the current summer youth empoyment program. 2. The City shoud deveop incentive programs for attendance and performance-based merit if they do not currenty exist within the current Summer Youth Empoyment Program. 3. The City shoud work with oca ISDs on a system to identify high-risk youth eigibe for a 30-day summer empoyment piot program, with the goa of increasing the number of participants by 20 percent in the subsequent year. 20 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

22 Photos courtesy of AISD, photographer Carmen Luevanos (FISCAL YEAR 2015) Enhance partnerships and coaborations with oca ISDs, the City of Austin, Travis County, area coeges and universities, and non-profit organizations. 1. The City shoud work with oca ISDs to enhance current programs that offer homework assistance/tutoring for probem earning areas. This can be done by increasing the incentives and benefits to City of Austin empoyees who increase their invovement in mentoring/tutoring programs. 2. The City shoud aso work with oca ISDs on coaborations where programs of urban and cassica Latino music, dance, art, iterature and theater offered by the City coud be counted as credit for a student s curricuum. 3. Deveop coaborative opportunities with oca universities that have foreign anguage departments, such as the University of Texas Biingua Education Department, for assistance in biingua programming. 4. The City shoud aso work with Austin Partners in Education (APIE) to hep it increase partnership agreements for mentors with oca businesses and other organizations. 5. As partners, the City and AISD shoud work to ensure AISD Hispanic/ Latino youth eadership deveopment programs succeed, and invite private and pubic organizations to coaborate in the deveopment, funding and execution of programs. Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 21

23 6. Companies that are under consideration to receive City of Austin economic incentives shoud be encouraged to support pubic education programs such as mentoring and tutoring and offering internships, a of which woud be considered added benefits in their incentive appications. Support and Expand the Mayor s eadership programs to incude a Leadership Deveopment Academy that targets and enhances the eadership potentia of Hispanic/Latino youth and young aduts. Aso, support existing and proven programs in the Hispanic/Latino Community that provide tutoring, mentoring and other support to encourage student success in schoos. Exampes of such programs might incude: Latinitas LULAC District Counci 7 Leadership Program Con Mi Madres PODER Young Schoars for Justice AustinCorps (FISCAL YEAR 2015) The City shoud support, and where it can, faciitate discussion and creation of a Community Youth Court for truancy and support it with the deveopment of educationa programs to address the needs of youth in crisis and the impementation of preventative measures that wi keep truant youth in schoo. 1. As a community, we need to chaenge other organizations to mode the empoyee participation rate of the City of Austin as a way to increase tutoring, mentoring, homework assistance and iteracy program participation. 2. Encourage the deveopment of partnerships that support vocationa trades and trade unions with pubic midde schoos and higher. 3. Enhance coaborations and partnerships on dropout prevention programs with the goa of increasing graduation rates. 4. Continue to support the strategies and toos identified in Connecting the Dots to serve as an eary warning system to identify potentia dropouts. Continue a community-wide diaogue on this issue through the estabished partnership between the Joint Subcommittee of AISD/COA/Travis County and the proposed Hispanic/Latino Resource Advisory Commission. 22 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

24 5. Encourage community eaders and subject experts to engage in a conversation and deveop or enhance programs aimed to identify indicators, signs, and patterns that emerge in potentia dropouts that are simiar to the piot software program impemented by the City, County and AISD that enabed service coordination with resuts accountabiity between entities. Photos courtesy of AISD, photographer Carmen Luevanos 6. If the current piot supports it, create a centraized community youth court for truancy and non-traffic offenses fied against youth under the age of 17. This court woud be supported by juvenie case managers charged with working with youth, famiies, schoo and the community to identify soutions. Aign this Community Youth Court with the Downtown Austin Community Court to speed impementation, avoid dupication and maximize efficiency. Promote accessibiity of the Community Youth Court by aso convening on schoo campuses or other pubic faciities throughout the community. 7. Provide access to ega services for famiies of students in the court system. 8. Partner with oca ISDs and Travis County to estabish parent support programs that target reductions in truancy. (FISCAL YEAR 2015) Deveop a career eadership academy that wi be dedicated to professiona careers in the pubic service sector that do not require coege degrees. 1. We beieve the City of Austin shoud consider estabishing apprenticeship programs for trades/careers that do not require coege degrees such as mechanics, inemen, poice officers, firefighters, piots, positions in the Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 23

25 high- tech industry, and other identified career fieds. There shoud aso be increased outreach and mentoring for potentia femae Hispanic/Latino recruits. 2. Cooperative partnerships shoud be sought with private, pubic, nonprofit institutions and trade unions to make these trainee programs and career efforts successfu. 24 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

26 Youth Services We beieve that faciitating the invovement of young peope in civic activities increases their ikeihood of being civicay engaged as aduts. To make sure that the next generation of eadership continues, the City of Austin must work to ensure that youth are part of the future visioning of the City s pans and services. The City of Austin can provide additiona mechanisms for our youth and young aduts to gain eadership skis and knowedge. If our community is to achieve equity and opportunity for a peope, it is important to notice not ony how the community as a whoe is doing, but how sub-popuations are doing. Vunerabe popuations are groups of peope who are at greater risk for poor socio-economic heath status and we-being. Foowing are some of the key chaenges facing one vunerabe popuation, our youth. Issues A number of issues exist regarding the services for Hispanic/Latino youth in the Austin area. Two of the more prevaent issues incude the fact that Hispanic/Latino youth make up a arge popuation of the juvenie justice system and many do not have adequate heath coverage. Additionay, most Hispanic/Latino youth are unempoyed and/or underempoyed and ack the basic skis to hep them secure Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 25

27 work once they reach aduthood. A ack of internships geared toward Hispanic youth prevents Hispanic youth from earning the basic skis needed for gainfu empoyment. Organized sports and other activities that promote youth deveopment are acking in ow-income areas, especiay for Hispanic femaes. The singe underying issue common to a the issues is the ack of transportations services and transportation aternatives for Hispanic youth, especiay those who ive in ow-income areas of Austin. Growth in the Chid and Youth Popuation Source: Community Action Network, Dashboard Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

28 Data There are more than a quarter of a miion chidren and youth iving in Travis County, according to American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. The growth rate of the under 18 popuation is higher in Travis County than in the City of Austin and higher sti in the five-county Metropoitan Statistica Area. Amost one-fourth of chidren in Travis County ive in poverty and 45 percent are ow-income, meaning they ive in famiies that earn ess than two times the federa poverty threshod. Chidren in ower income househods are ess ikey to have their basic needs met or to have access to quaity pre-k and out-of-schoo-time programs. Lower-income chidren aso tend to be geographicay concentrated in areas with ow-performing schoos. Recommended Strategies (FISCAL YEAR 2014) There needs to be an increase in opportunities for programs, trainings and youth deveopment at City of Austin faciities such as recreation centers, ibrary branches and neighborhood centers. 1. Expand the number of computer abs at recreation centers and offer more casses ike the Connected Youth program at the Austin Pubic Library that teach basic skis that can hep youth secure gainfu empoyment. The City wi begin the Roving Leaders program, which wi incude a portabe computer ab that wi serve the areas with the highest need. If the program proves to be successfu, the City shoud ook at expansion of the program to impact more chidren. 2. Create and/or enhance youth art, music,writing, theater, dance and performance casses at recreation centers and ook into offering music production and business workshops as means for youth deveopment. The current enrichment component of the Recreation Center After Schoo Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 27

29 programs incudes an arts component. This program is one that coud be expanded to be offered as a stand-aone cass and offered in ow-income areas. 3. Work to incorporate more co-ed sports (such as voeyba and kickba) into current program offerings. (FISCAL YEAR 2015) Opportunities for programs, trainings and youth deveopment. 1. Provide a eves of swimming essons, in both Engish and Spanish, based on a siding fee scae in ow-income areas. The department currenty offers approximatey 600 swimming essons free of charge to individuas who quaify. Staff has communicated that the 2014 budget year is poised to offer siding scae fees for recreation programs. We encourage City Counci to ensure the fees are propery vetted and a siding scae approved. 2.Provide heathy drinks and snacks in the vending machines at area recreation centers, incuding during programs, and offer heathy food workshops. We appaud the City Counci for directing staff to deveop a poicy regarding heathy snacks and vending machines products. We were peased to discover that recreation centers and departments are making efforts to reduce high-caorie snacks and high-sugar drinks in advance of this poicy. 3.The Parks and Recreation Department shoud provide venues to organizations in ow-income areas to host youth events and ensure that outdoor concerts at recreation centers provide music and entertainment by youth. 28 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

30 4. Support and fund extending recreation center hours and extending hours of ighting for outdoor sports, primariy in the ate spring to eary fa hours. (FISCAL YEAR 2014) Faciitate coaboration among oca schoo districts to create programs to reduce truancy and increase graduation rates. 1. As a ong term goa, the City shoud coaborate with other governmenta agencies to estabish a Neighborhood Conference Committee (NCC) in every schoo, where it is needed, in coaboration with Famiy Resource Centers and Communities in Schoos. This woud foow the same mode as the piot program that was recommended by the Joint Subcommittee of AISD, City and Travis County. 2. Create a Community Youth Court for truancy and support it with deveopment of educationa programs to address the needs of these youth in crisis. Impement preventative measures to keep youth in schoo. 3. The City shoud work with oca ISDs to determine the feasibiity of creating a diversion program that woud provide deferred prosecution within the enforcement agencies of each governmenta entity. 4. Encourage coordination and faciitation of Community-Based Leadership that woud support both youth eadership programs and restorative circes. (FISCAL YEAR 2014) Increase heath services for youth. 1. The City needs to coaborate with oca ISDs to deveop strategies and programs aimed at reducing the number of homeess youth and those affected by student mobiity each year. 2. Ensure that there are aocations of housing funds that give priority to famiies with youth, especiay those in situations where housing is needed immediatey. 3. Enhance/incorporate heath programs to educate youth on the issues reated to teen pregnancy and sexuay transmitted and communicabe diseases. Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 29

31 (FISCAL YEAR 2015) Increase heath services for youth. 1. Estabish and enhance heath casses that focus on weness, the importance of heathy foods, the benefits of gardening, the resuts of exercise and the advantages of famiy panning. The Parks and Recreation Department, aong with the support of the community, shoud hep pant and care for community gardens. 2. The City shoud enhance the eary warning detection system within APD as an end to racia profiing and provide casses informing youth of their rights when they are stopped by Austin Poice officers. (FISCAL YEAR 2014) Enhance career buiding and empoyment opportunities for youth. 1. The creation of a Citywide Youth Empoyment/Internship Office woud provide outreach for empoyment opportunities. 2. Estabish an onine job search engine specificay for teens on the City of Austin web site. 3. Provide adequate funding to estabish paid internships in various City departments throughout the year. 4. Look into possiby incuding into contracts with non-profits summer jobs/ paid internship pacement for youth. 5. Target ow-income youth for empoyment and internship opportunities that pay a iving wage. (FISCAL YEAR 2015) Enhance career buiding and empoyment opportunities for youth. 1. Look into the feasibiity of a partnership with oca ISDs with the goa of offering casses on financia education to youth at various City faciities and/or oca schoos. 2. Support the creation of pubic/private partnerships to provide trade jobs such as those in the high-tech industry and cuinary arts, to prepare youth to become professionas in certain trade fieds. 30 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

32 Photos courtesy of AISD, photographer Carmen Luevanos 3. Support the creation of pubic/private partnerships to provide rea ife ski jobs training at City faciities. (FISCAL YEAR 2015) Youth and Juvenie Justice 1. Create a Community Youth Court for truancy and non-traffic offenses fied against youth under age 17 to be supported by juvenie case managers charged with working with youth, famiies, schoos and the community to identify soutions on a case-by-case basis for reducing truancy and invovement by youth with the crimina justice system. a. Functionay aign the Community Youth Court (CYC) with the Downtown Austin Community Court to speed impementation of the CYC, avoid dupication of effort and maximize efficiency. 2. Design the CYC with features of probem-soving courts, incuding: a. Innovative and focusing on positive case outcomes (e.g. reducing recidivism and truancy). b. Advocating for system change and reform by effectivey engaging the community. Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 31

33 c. Stressing judicia invovement in identifying and addressing obstaces faced by youth, famiies and schoos. d. Fostering coaboration and partnerships with the community and socia service providers. e. Identifying and utiizing effective screening and assessment toos for identifying youth who woud be best served by the appication of court resources. 3. Appy the principes of restorative justice providing for direct diaogue, when appropriate, between the accused and the schoo or the victim. a. Promote accessibiity by convening the Community Youth Court, as necessary, on schoo campuses or other faciities open to the pubic. b. Estabish partnerships with researchers to report on the numbers of cases fied, demographic characteristics of youth handed by the CYC and outcomes in cases handed by the CYC. c. Set the Juvenie Case Manager fee assessed on convictions in the Austin Municipa Court at $5 per case (currenty set at $4) to increase funding for juvenie case managers and to pace the fee at the same eve assessed by Travis County Commissioners Court for Juvenie Case Managers in Justice of the Peace Courts. 32 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

34 Housing and Community Deveopment We beieve it is important to improve the physica condition and avaiabiity of housing by increasing the suppy of decent, safe, and affordabe housing options through rehabiitation, new construction and expanded opportunities for home ownership. To ensure our residents have safe and affordabe paces to ive, we wi need to coaborate cosey with the Austin Housing and Finance Corporation, the Community Deveopment Corporation and the City of Austin Neighborhood Housing and Community Deveopment (NHCD). The mission of the City of Austin s NHCD is to provide housing, community deveopment and sma business deveopment services to benefit eigibe residents, so they can have access to ivabe neighborhoods and increase their opportunities for sef-sufficiency. NHCD directy administers a variety of programs to serve the community s housing, community deveopment and economic deveopment needs and provides grant funding to various agencies and non-profit organizations. Demographics The City of Austin has reached a unique threshod in terms of racia composition, by becoming a majority-minority city. This means that in Austin, no ethnic ordemographic group exists as a majority. The Ango (non-hispanic white) share Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative 33

35 represents just fewer than 49 percent of the popuation in The Hispanic/Latino share has steadiy increased since 1990 to 35 percent of the popuation in The Asian community has aso grown consideraby in the ast 10 years. In 1990, the Asian community represented about 3.3 percent of the popuation - in 2010, this share has grown to just over six percent of the popuation. African Americans comprised about 10 percent of Austin s popuation in In 2010, the African American percentage has dropped to just under eight percent and is expected to continue to decrease as the city continues to increase in popuation. African Americans, as we as other demographic groups, have migrated to surrounding areas outside the city imits - the suburbs and neighboring communities. The geographica dispersion of affordabe housing has aso moved into the suburbs as the Austin housing market has become more expensive. This aso accounts for the migration of residents to the suburbs. Austin Residentia Migration to Suburbs East Austin residents have been particuary affected by the oss in homeownership due to factors such as increasing property taxes. The foowing figures were pued from the East Austin Conservancy s report Land of Broken Dreams and Land of Opportunity. Between 2002 and 2012, the percent of ongtime homeowners in East Austin decined by 34 percent. Neary one-third of those ongtime homeowners in East Austin had outstanding tax deinquencies. 34 Hispanic/Latino Quaity of Life Initiative

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