CJ Work Groups
CJ welcomes the formation of new short-term or long-term work groups and new members in ongoing work groups. If you would like to discuss starting up and/or coordinating a new work group, email cj.cville@gmail.com Newcomers are most welcomed; please contact the group’s coordinator if you plan on attending a meeting for the first time.
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CJ Work Groups presently include:
Health Promoter/Promotor de Salud Group
Contact: Health Promoter Working Group
wlfwmn@gmail.com, ns7e@virginia.edu or aaron@saracville.org
Description: To promote health promoter initiatives and in other ways
increase health services to area Latinos.
Click here to go to the Health Promoter’s webpage.
Southwood Work Group
Contact: Gloria Rockhold
grockhold@k12albemarle.org
Description: A resource to support Habitat and its residents, which includes
the maintenance of a Southwood webpage that collects and stores media reports
and other information about the trailer park and initiatives serving it.
Click here to view Southwood’s webpage.
Mental Health Work Group
Contact: Elizabeth Irvin
eirvin@thewomensinitiative.org
Description: Mental health providers share knowledge and resources to enhance access and the quality of mental health services to the Latino community.
Click here to go to the Mental Health Work Group webpage.
Law Enforcement Work Group
Contact: Phil Storey
phil@justice4all.org
Description: This group works to help improve the quality and perceived fairness of interactions between local law enforcement (police departments and jail) and the Latino community. Their objectives are to facilitate productive, respectful, and candid dialogue between local law enforcement and the Latino community and to increase the Latino community’s understanding of the roles of local law enforcement and processes of the criminal justice system (from the perspective of both suspects/accused and victims/complainants).
Click here to go to the Law Enforcement Work Group webpage.
Annual Help Fair
Contact: Martha Trujillo
mtrujillo@unitedwaytja.org
Description: CJ organizes an annual Help Fair to offer service providers an opportunity to do outreach in the Latino community and to provide Latinos information, workshops, and other tools about community resources and issues important to them.
Click here for information.
Early Childhood Work Group
Contact: Maria Williams
elbambutercero@hotmail.com
Description: CJ’s Early Childhood Work Group brings together service providers and academics working with the area’s pre-kindergarten Latino population and their families. They have coordinated a number of CJ workshops on early childhood development, language aquisition, and the effects of deportations and immigration detention on families and children.
Immigration Rights Resources
Contacts:
Tim Freilich
tim@justice4all.org
Eddie Summers
es@ocho.com
Doug Ford
doug@justice4all.org
Related resources are located in the Language Access and Immigration Rights sections.
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A Working Group protocol was established in April 2006 to promote communication within these groups and between them and other CJ members and the general public.
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History of CJ Work Groups:
In February 2006, a decision was made to organize work groups to enhance the number and quality of initiatives serving the greater Charlottesville Latino community. CJ work groups have been disbanded, reorganized or added based upon needs and the availability of volunteers to respond to them.
In addition to work groups, CJ also has resource persons who are seasoned specialists with knowledge about a particular issue or population. These two mechanisms facilitate greater participation in discussions, and maximize idea and resource exchanges, networking and partnerships. They strengthen the ability of service providers to do meaningful outreach and increase services available or provided to Latinos.
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Discontinued working groups include the following:
CJ Web Site Work Group (2006 – 2011)
The CJ website was launched in April 2006. Linda Hemby, content coordinator, and Rolando Mendez, webmaster, designed and weekly updated the site, which was overhauled between November 2010 and February 2011 with the technical assistance of Beth Hurley and Andrea Hidalgo.
Click here for more information about this site.
Faith Based Initiatives Work Group (2006 – 2010)
The group was a bridge between CJ and faith based organizations, encouraging and offering them opportunities to become more involved in the Latino community. Click here for resources generated by this work group.
CJ-UVA Projects (2006, 2007, 2008 – 2009)
Click here for an overview.
Power of Attorney and Guardianship Documents Initiative (2008 – 2009)
Preparations and follow up to the CJ October 2008 panel Immigration Detentions and Children, led to a collection of resources and to efforts by attorney Eddie Summer to develop bilingual power of attorney and guardianship documents that service providers can circulate to Latino families to help them deal with the complications of possible detentions. For more information write es@ocho.com
Community Services Work Group (2005 – 2008)
Click here for Community Services’ webpage.
Mental Health Initiative (2007)
In 2007, Cheryl Ribano coordinated this project with the assistance of Linda Hemby. It consisted in identifying bilingual and bicultural mental health service providers who treat area Latinos, contacting them to obtain information about their services, and developing and making available a directory of these providers. The directory is updated regularly; to view it, click here.
Education (2006)
Click here for Education’s webpage.
Communications (2005 – 2006)
Click here for Communications’ webpage.