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Multicultural Programming: Raising environmental awareness among immigrants
In 2009, funding from the Island Foundation allowed the Reserve to partner with the Cape Cod
Immigrant Center and Cape Cod Community College’s English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
program to pilot an Environmental Leadership Course for leaders from the Cape’s immigrant communities.
The course, which we plan to offer annually, aims to increase environmental literacy and help raise
awareness of the Reserve’s services and programs to this audience, as well as connect recent immigrants
with various other environmental organizations through guest presentations. As a result of these
collaborations, the Cape Cod Immigrant Center held their annual meeting here in 2009 and the Reserve
has collaborated with Falmouth’s No Place for Hate committee to participate in the annual Immigration
Celebration organized by the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission. The Reserve plans to continue
to improve services for these communities including translating some materials for Portuguese-speaking
Brazilians, which are by far the largest immigrant community on the Cape.
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area. In 2008, we conducted a Cultural Needs Assessment to gain a better understanding of how to
connect with this underserved audience. The Reserve has begun implementing some of the many
suggestions that emerged from this process.