coe-staff: Oregon Association of the Deaf and Community Needs Assessment

[Elizabeth O'Harra]

Hi Everyone,

I'd like to let you know about the Community Needs Assessment activity 
that takes place at the HEDCO Education building today from 11:00 am to 
8:00 pm and tomorrow from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.  I work with Dr. Denise 
Thew Hackett at Western Oregon University, and she's a lead researcher 
on Community Needs Assessment, a survey designed for deaf and hard of 
hearing people to share experience using services relating to education, 
employment community, and health in the state of Oregon.

This is a grant-based research through Oregon Association of the Deaf 
and Oregon Department of Human Services.  The goal is to gather 
information from deaf and hard of hearing people about their experience 
using the services and to share information with the state government.  
The participants who want to participate the Community Needs Assessment 
survey will arrive here from Eugene and surrounding communities, such as 
Junction City, Cottage Grove, Springfield, Thurston, and others.

For your information, some of the classrooms at the HEDCO Education 
building as well as the conference rooms in the CDS / CYHS departments 
are reserved for the Community Needs Assessment survey.

If you have any questions and/or concerns, feel free to contact me.


-- 
Valentino Vasquez
ASL Instructor