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Proposition 47 Community Forum
YOU’RE INVITED!
Prop 47 Community Forum: Progressives’ Role in Implementation
WHEN: Sunday JANUARY 25, 2015
1:00 – 5:30 pm
WHERE: Golden Gate University School of Law
536 Mission Street in San Francisco, Room 2201
(BART to Montgomery Street Station)
** 2.5 Hours MCLE credit for attorneys **
Panel discussions and breakout sessions, featuring: formerly incarcerated people, public defenders, legal service providers, advocates for prison abolition & civil rights
- What’s the most comprehensive implementation model for Proposition 47 outreach?
- Where do we go from here for large-scale criminal justice change?
- How do we work with or around people who oppose change in our post-47 world?
- How do we build the most inclusive movement we can for future success?
1pm-2pm “Outreach & Implementation Models.” SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi, Alameda Public Defender Brendon Woods, Meredith Desautels of Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Eliza Hersh of East Bay Community Law Center, Milena Blake from Californians for Safety & Justice. Moderator Alex Berliner of All Of Us Or None.
2:15-3:30 ”Building An Inclusive Movement.” Lenore Anderson of Californians for Safety & Justice, Prof. Cynthia Chandler of Golden Gate University, Manuel La Fontaine of All Of Us Or None, Laura Magnani of American Friends Service Committee, Natasha Minsker of American Civil Liberties Union, Lynne Lyman of Drug Policy Alliance. Moderator Dorsey Nunn of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.
3:45-4:45 BREAKOUT SESSION “Cultivating A Network Of Unlikely Allies,” with facilitator Gopal Dayaneni of Progressive Communicators Network.
3:45-4:45 BREAKOUT SESSION “Next Steps Towards Change,” with facilitator Harriette Davis of All Of Us Or None.
4:45-5:30 Wrap-up & light refreshments
New Data Shows Importance of
Targeted Outreach in Languages Other than English
On Wednesday July 16th,
Covered California released self-reported data on the written
and spoken languages of its enrollees in each of the 19 rating
regions across the state. The new data reinforces the importance of reaching
out to the remaining uninsured in culturally and linguistically appropriate
ways (particularly in languages other than English) in order to ensure robust
enrollment in 2015.
It is estimated that at least 40% of Californians eligible for
subsidies in Covered California speak a language other English;
however only 17% of enrollees statewide reported a language other than English
as their preferred written or spoken language. These numbers vary greatly
between regions. For example, close to half (47%) of enrollees in Region 13
(Mono, Imperial, and Inyo Counties) reported Spanish as their preferred written
and spoken language. Similarly, around a third of enrollees in Kern County and
Northern Los Angeles County (Regions 14 and 15, respecitvely) and roughly 1 in
4 enrollees in the Central Valley (Regions 10 and 11) reported a language other
than English as their preferred written and spoken language.
The data includes regional break-outs for Spanish as well as the other Medi-Cal
Managed Care threshold languages: English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Farsi,
Tagalog, Cambodian, Russian, Arabic, Armenian, and Hmong.
There is an opportunity to improve outreach and enrollment in languages other
than English. Covered California is planning to award up to $16.9 million in grants,
including to community-based organizations, for enrollment assistance during
the next enrollment period slated to start November 15, 2014. A portion of the
funds will be awarded specifically for targeted outreach and enrollment of
hard-to-reach populations including young adults and Limited English Proficient
Californians. Covered California’s new language data highlights the importance
of continued targeted funding for culturally and linguistically appropriate
outreach and enrollment of the remaining uninsured.
Visit Covered California's Open Enrollment Data Book
for more detailed enrollee data.
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