What Is Community?

Different Types of Community

Our Nations Influence

International Travel & Residency

Using The Internet

GLOBAL

Extending Your Service

Volunteerimternation.org

Habitat for Humanity

Peace Corp

Our Local Community

Utah’s Demographics

Minorities, chiefly Latinos, made up 61 percent of Salt Lake County's population growth from 2000 to 2006.

Refugees are also a factor-Data suggest only 10 percent of the state's recent foreign-born immigrants are refugees. Although the government provides a wide range of initial supports, the families who are now coming to Utah are larger than in the past, making it more difficult to break beyond the poverty barrier.

The proportion of children who qualify for discounted lunch prices in the Salt Lake City School District has jumped almost 10 percentage points since 1999.

At the Salt Lake City Housing Authority, the number of families waiting for affordable housing grew by almost 2,000 in the last two years, going from 5,426 at the end of 2005 to 7,295 in 2007.

The Power is in Our Hands

VOTE!

Poverty & Discrimination in SLC

S.L.C.A.P. Btwn. 1999 and 2006 the

# of children in poverty grew from 19% to 28.4%

Due to the large LDS population and being the convention and industrial banking center of the west, SLC has a largely affluent population

SLC has the lowest white pop. In Utah(89.7%) but it is still high at 79%

A More Involved Youth In Salt lake City alone, almost a quarter of

the entire population is under 18

If we teach children when their young, they will grow up with a broader sense of community their whole lives

We need to strive to embrace civic-engaged learning in all our institutions of higher learning

Personal Community

What I can do for my community as an Individual?

Our own Personal Experience with the Community

Jun

Age: 22 From: Korea Native language:

Korean Time in the U.S.:

4 months

Antonio

Age: 29 From: Mexico Native language: Spanish Time in the U.S.: about 5

years

Biren Age: 27 From: Nepal Native language: Nepali Time in the U.S.: 5

months

Fredrik

Age: 33 From: USA Native language:

English in the U.S. for: 32

years

So now what ?