Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
| New Beginnings Transitional Shelter | ||
| 220 W. Prince Rd., Tucson | ||
| Date of Conversation: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Time: 7:00 – 8:00 PM | ||
| Facilitator: Joe Silins Recorder: Anita Fonte | ||
| Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 8 | ||
| Theme 1. Health Care | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Access to health insurance | ||
| Transportation to ACCCHS | ||
| Theme 2. Roots/Native to Tucson | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Daughter born here | ||
| Theme 3. Human and Legal Services | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Helpful Shelters like the one I'm in that keeps my daughter and me off the streets | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| More coupons and discounts for things like diapers and baby formula | ||
| Legal view of recovered drug addicts in juvenile courts | ||
| Lack or information regarding locations of sex offenders in neighborhoods | ||
| View of homelessness: its not always what it seems | ||
| More drugstores such as Walgreens and CVS | ||
| C.P.S. and the control they have over families and the parents in Tucson | ||
| More help for women over 21 (such as day care to attend for G.E.D, Housing, etc.) | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| If you are over 21 AHCCS does nothing/need for external services. | ||
| Transportation could help with employment opportunities. | ||
| C.P.S. came up with a solution so I could keep my boys. If you jump through their hoops you get what you want. | ||
| Because these services are for humans and we are all humans. | ||
| The legal view of a history of drug use is hard to understand. What is different now? | ||
| C.P.S. helped me with the following: day care, clothing, home visits, getting kids back from husband, and setting up a structure for raising children. | ||
| C.P.S. has a large control in Tucson compared to other parts of Arizona. They took my daughter for 4 months! | ||
| Theme 4. Transportation | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Convenience of walking to the store | ||
| Public transportation | ||
| I like that Tucson is small (meaning less people) | ||
| I like that we have Sun Tran Bus | ||
| Having public transportation | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Times and availability | ||
| Transportation/Sun Tran | ||
| I do not like that the bus does not run 24 hours | ||
| Sun Tran needs extended routes and times | ||
| Hours of public transportation | ||
| Theme 5. Public Programs: Family Entertainment | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Free parks like Brandi Fenton | ||
| Library | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| All family activities cost money that not all of us have | ||
| More water parks besides Breakers | ||
| More parks | ||
| Theme 6. Availability of Employment | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| No work equals no jobs equals me crying | ||
| Department of Economic Security | ||
| Theme 7. U of A | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| U of A football | ||
| Theme 8. Education | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| All schools in Tucson need to provide reading programs | ||
| Value placed on education | ||
Tuesday, March 08, 2011