Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
| Jewish Family and Community Services (with clients' needs in mind) | ||
| 4301 East 5th St., Tucson | ||
| Date of Conversation: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Time: 10:00 � 11:00 AM | ||
| Facilitator: Patrick Hartley Recorder: Sue Morman | ||
| Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 26 | ||
| Theme 1. Safety | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Lack of safety | ||
| Safety while out in the community | ||
| Clean up crime | ||
| Theme 2. Economy | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Cost of living | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| The economy - average income needs to increase | ||
| Business unfriendly | ||
| Theme 3. Community Services and Health | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Free community services - school, counseling, transportation | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| More services in the home | ||
| Mental health support/insurance for seriously mentally ill (SMI) and low income stinks | ||
| More services | ||
| More funding for senior support services | ||
| Lack mental health care | ||
| Activities - not much to do for teens, kids, or the elderly | ||
| More activities for teens | ||
| Lack of services, poor community activities | ||
| More community centers and activities for teens | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Get to know your neighbors - have community seating in all neighborhoods | ||
| Isolated community - we need to connect the elderly with children | ||
| We need to connect all separate ages of the community together | ||
| Hard to develop a sense of community | ||
| Hard to meet people - overcome difficulties to get places by better transportation | ||
| Maximize everyone's participation by dealing with basic issues; so food and shelter are not so much a drain on their resources and they can concentrate on their overall wellbeing | ||
| Provide and improve ability to nurture | ||
| Find ways for teenagers to belong to the community | ||
| Creating activities would provide a sense of belonging | ||
| We have less affordable access to health care and mental health services - particularly for lower- to middle income families | ||
| Greater need for parenting support- educate parents, especially those that are new parents and may need some assistance with how to help their kids | ||
| Need more prevention and rehab programs | ||
| As a community we need to make an effort to reduce the stigma attached to mental health issues | ||
| Needs to be improvements and efforts to stamp out drug usage | ||
| Drug education for everyone to help parents determine if their children are abusing drugs | ||
| Serious mental illness puts more strains on families and the communities | ||
| Services are lacking; from police to mental health and beyond | ||
| The aging community need more programs to assist them | ||
| There should be more teen programs to provide alternative to gangs | ||
| It reduces community stress | ||
| It increases safety and improves life | ||
| As we improve our community services the economy will improve, and as the economy improves, the capacity to provide more community services increases | ||
| Better community services for those that need them most increases the sense of belonging | ||
| Theme 4. Transportation | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Less traffic than the east or west coast | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Expanded affordable transportation | ||
| Transportation | ||
| Transportation | ||
| Traffic congestion | ||
| Improve public transportation systems | ||
| Lack of transportation | ||
| Easier access driving across town | ||
| Better public transportation | ||
| Theme 5. Community Culture and Lifestyle | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Outdoor activities - Desert Museum, zoo, Mt. Lemmon, Biking | ||
| Outdoor activities | ||
| Outdoor opportunities | ||
| Multi-culturalism | ||
| Small town atmosphere | ||
| Easy access to marijuana and drugs | ||
| Diversity | ||
| Friends | ||
| Close to California and Mexico | ||
| Casual lifestyle | ||
| Sense of community (friends/interests) | ||
| Community closeness | ||
| Friendliness | ||
| Small-town atmosphere | ||
| The friendliness of the people | ||
| Culture | ||
| Community | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| More ways to build support (meeting new people, access to sports) | ||
| Communication barrier between English and Spanish speakers | ||
| Policies/laws | ||
| Theme 6. Climate | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Weather | ||
| Weather | ||
| Weather | ||
| Climate | ||
| Weather | ||
| Weather | ||
| Climate | ||
| Weather | ||
| Weather and scenery | ||
| Climate | ||
| The weather | ||
| Weather | ||
| Theme 7. Education | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Education stinks | ||
| More teachers and education for our children | ||
| Public education | ||
| Poor education | ||
| Education - i.e. no art or music etc. | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Students act out if their attention isn't captured in a creative and interesting way | ||
| Lack of an education for parents, results in poor education for children - the parents aren't aware of or don't have the resources to locate the best schools and education opportunities | ||
| The public education system doesn't provide or adhere to benchmarks- they pass students even if they don't master the fundamentals | ||
| Resources are limited for special learners and students with ADD etc. | ||
| We are 49th in state education rankings | ||
| Education is the way to improve future of Tucson and the economy, also need to improve adult education | ||
| Change - the legislators views about and support of education | ||
| Change the value of education in legislators minds | ||
| Increase the trade labor pool by providing education | ||
| Need to bring back shop/art/music/gym/home economics (a well-rounded education) in schools | ||
| Lack of an educated labor pool results in no business coming to Tucson | ||
| Increase mentor programs (big brothers/big sisters type programs) for elementary through High School | ||
| The most important things are the economy, safety and education. If we improve our education system, we will improve the economy | ||
Tuesday, February 01, 2011