The Problem
Through our personal experiences, living in a community where immigrant needs are visible, we have witnessed first hand the obstacles that our students and their families face everyday. Healthcare and wellness are two things everyone needs, but our main focus is on immigrants because they are provided with inadequate services.
Our team will work to ease the accessibility of healthcare benefits and academic resources to the immigrant community.
Projected Timeline
Our project will take place in the neighborhood of West Adams, and will officially kick off during the month of January. This team will start by working in the school, and eventually making it’s way out into the community.
Community Impact
We expect that some immediate changes wouldn’t necessarily be visible, but that we can see that some of the immigrants, either student or adult, would have a better health or at least less stress. There wouldn’t be such a huge need to find doctors or specialists as much after our project is completed.
In addition, our project will result in less cause of panic. Immigrants are always wary of help, so this project can hopefully be a source to rely on and become common among other undocumented people.
Quantitative Data
According to the United States Census Bureau, there are around 2.5 million undocumented youth under the age of 18 in the U.S. From this group of youth, over 65,000 students graduate from High School. Around 40% of these students reside in the state of California. Considering this, 26,000 undocumented students are attaining an education in CA, but only 5,000-8,000 were eligible to apply for the AB540: a California state law that allows students to pay in-state tuition fees at a UC, CSU, or community college.
Qualitative Data
We hope this website will continue to serve as a tool after the program finalizes. For our records, we will conduct a survey asking the following questions:
Through our personal experiences, living in a community where immigrant needs are visible, we have witnessed first hand the obstacles that our students and their families face everyday. Healthcare and wellness are two things everyone needs, but our main focus is on immigrants because they are provided with inadequate services.
Our team will work to ease the accessibility of healthcare benefits and academic resources to the immigrant community.
Projected Timeline
Our project will take place in the neighborhood of West Adams, and will officially kick off during the month of January. This team will start by working in the school, and eventually making it’s way out into the community.
Community Impact
We expect that some immediate changes wouldn’t necessarily be visible, but that we can see that some of the immigrants, either student or adult, would have a better health or at least less stress. There wouldn’t be such a huge need to find doctors or specialists as much after our project is completed.
In addition, our project will result in less cause of panic. Immigrants are always wary of help, so this project can hopefully be a source to rely on and become common among other undocumented people.
Quantitative Data
According to the United States Census Bureau, there are around 2.5 million undocumented youth under the age of 18 in the U.S. From this group of youth, over 65,000 students graduate from High School. Around 40% of these students reside in the state of California. Considering this, 26,000 undocumented students are attaining an education in CA, but only 5,000-8,000 were eligible to apply for the AB540: a California state law that allows students to pay in-state tuition fees at a UC, CSU, or community college.
Qualitative Data
We hope this website will continue to serve as a tool after the program finalizes. For our records, we will conduct a survey asking the following questions:
- Was accessing this website easy?
- How does this site compare to the resources you had before?
- Did you receive sufficient amount of information?
- Did you recommend this website to anyone else?