Impacting Rural Hispanic Communities by Reaching Out, Connecting and Providing Services at Different Levels
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In my role as an outreach specialist, I have created community events, partnered with various organizations, and participated in nontraditional programs in order to attract the vast Hispanic populations in the area to the various Hood River County libraries.
Hood River County is a rural community, and an estimated 31 percent of the population is Hispanic. The great thing about this community is that it has invested its efforts in honoring and accepting the Hispanic culture and bringing the community together as a whole. There is a little town named Odell, about eight miles south of Hood River, where I have focused my outreach efforts. Odell currently has an estimated Hispanic population of 65 percent.
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Published
2017-05-08
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Lara, P. (2017). Impacting Rural Hispanic Communities by Reaching Out, Connecting and Providing Services at Different Levels. OLA Quarterly, 22(4), 5–8. https://doi.org/10.7710/1093-7374.1874
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