• MONTAGNARD DEGA have called Greensboro home for decades yet they lack a neighborhood center.COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT MODEL IN ACTION
• The Rosewood-Cone Community Neighborhoods represent about 100 Montagnard Dega families.
• Isolation has meant lack of information, poverty, domestic violence and preventible chronic diseases.
• A center can empower women with knowledge to help themselves, reduce suffering, and stabilize families.
PROPOSAL SUMMARY
The Rosewood Neighborhood Community Center will give Montagnard Dega women and families the most up-to-date information about health and education — the basis of refugee personal empowerment and social integration. All programs will centralize and reflect the interests, education level, time schedules, costs and traditions of community members. Programs will be delivered by culturally competent members. The Center will be a grassroots, safe and inclusive space that will act independently of any single or dominant Montagnard Dega political or religious view.
ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Rosewood Neighborhood is located in the City’s northeast, bounded by Summit Avenue, Wendover Avenue and Highway 29. Montagnard Dega also live across Summit Avenue in the Cone Community Neighborhood. This concentration represents about 100 families. It includes an ethnic convenience store and coffee shop.
PROGRAMS
(1) Women’s and Family Health
Clear information, women’s health education, system navigation, patient and community advocacy, cultural and language interpretation.
(2) Adult ESOL
Low-level, preliterate; conversational, immersive, kinesthetic, experiential; based on learner’s goals
(3) Consumer Information
Citizen rights, responsibilities, choices and cost benefits for women, residents, citizens
(4) After School Tutoring-Mentoring
Also covers college prep, newly arrived and summer students
(5) Urban Housing and Energy Efficiency
Safe, sanitary, communal and cost beneficial
(6) Cross-Cultural Gardening
Urban food production; farming & technical info for American climate
(7) Kitchen Demonstration Area
Food insecurity, American food preparation, nutrition and health
(8) Farmers Market Training Comparative customs and practices, buying and selling
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT
The Center will be run by the Women’s Learning Group, a Rosewood organization and Life Skills: Montagnard Dega Success in America (LSMDSA), a youth group, also community-based. They will also be helped by the Montagnard Health Professionals Association (MHPA), a recently created group representing 9 former doctors, and the neighborhood's Degar Convenience Store. Technical assistance will be lent by the Bonner Center for Community Service and Learning (Guilford College) and Center for New North Carolinians (UNCG).
| CONTACT INFORMATION H Wier Siu Acting Director Women’s Learning Group Lek Siu Life Skills: Montagnard Dega Success in America | ADVISORY BOARD |
