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At the start of July, Mano a Mano
Family Center of Salem will be beginning
a three-phase project to increase bilin-
gual community health workers housed
at community-based organizations in
the Mid-Willamette Valley.
“Our goal is connecting the communi-
ty to healthcare, so they know how to ac-
cess it before it becomes a crisis,” said
Levi Herrera-Lopez, Executive Director
of Mano a Mano Family Center,
Mano a Mano will partner with sever-
al Black, indigenous, and people of color
(BIPOC) led community-based organiza-
tions to implement a community health
worker model in hopes of making health-
care more accessible.
“When the next community crisis
hits, we want to be ready” with a network
of trained bilingual health workers that
are coordinated to respond to the com-
munity’s needs, Herrera-Lopez said.
Mano a Mano’s main partner will be
Capaces Leadership Institute in Wood-
burn. The final list of partner organiza-
tions will be developed during phase
one, beginning in July. The first phase
also will consist of hiring a project coor-
dinator and developing a Spanish curri-
culum to train the new community
health workers.
Mano a Mano expects to begin train-
ing 10-12 community health workers by
the summer of 2023.
There is a large population of Latinx
individuals in the local community for
whom Spanish is their primary lan-
guage, and Herrera-Lopez said even
those who speak some English often pre-
fer to communicate in Spanish.
For these individuals, finding the care
they need can be difficult in a healthcare
system dominated by English-speaking
providers.
In rural Marion County, there is a large
indigenous Latinx community whose
first languages are indigenous languages
from Mexico. Developing an indigenous
language-based community health
worker curriculum is one of the project’s
goals for the future, said Herrera-Lopez.
He said the project was initiated in re-
sponse to a need in the BIPOC communi-
ty for health education and assistance in
navigating healthcare systems such as
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health insurance, which became appar-
ent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organizations such as Mano a Mano
and Capaces worked through the pan-
demic helping the BIPOC community
deal with health issues and related chal-
lenges such as increased stress.
“The people we’re serving never stopped
working and never stopped putting them-
selves at risk,” Herrera-Lopez said.
The community health worker model
works to mitigate these risks by ensuring
access to consistent support in times of
need. “It’s not just a referral or a phone
number,” said Herrera-Lopez.
The community health workers will
have knowledge of what resources are
available, then will connect those in need
with the care they are seeking. They will
work to help them understand how
health systems work, while continuing
to support them throughout the process
of accessing and receiving care.
This project is being funded, in part,
by $250,000 in funds secured by Sen.
Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, in the 2022 fed-
eral spending bill. According to a press
release from Merkley’s office, this year’s
funding is aimed at “supporting housing,
health care, education, and other needs
in Oregon communities” through com-
munity-initiated projects.
While the funding is helping to launch
Mano a Mano’s project, Herrera-Lopez
said their plan is to fundraise to maintain
the community health worker network.
Sydney Wyatt covers healthcare ineq-
uities in the Mid-Willamette Valley. You
can reach her at SWyatt@gannett.com,
by phone (503) 399-6613, or on Twitter
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funded in part by the M.J. Murdock Char-
itable Trust, which seeks to strengthen
the cultural, social, educational, and
spiritual base of the Pacific Northwest
through capacity-building investments
in the nonprofit sector.
Public Notices
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Review Body: Planning Commission
Hearing Date & Time: July 12, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Hearing Location: Silverton High School
Library, 1456 Pine Street with a Teleconference
option via Zoom.
Agenda Item #1:
File Number AN-22-01.
Annexation application to annex 13722 Edison
Heights Lane into the City Limits and zone the
property AR, Acreage Residential. The total
area of the annexation request is 1.7 acres. The
purpose of the annexation is to allow the
existing dwelling to be able to connect to the
City water system. The Acreage Residential
district prohibits the property from being
divided or developed beyond its current use.
Located on the south side of Edison Heights
Lane at 13722 Edison Heights Lane NE, Marion
County Assessor’s Map 071W11B, Tax Lot 00600.
The application will be reviewed following the
criteria found in Silverton Development Code
(SDC) section 4.10.140
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letter, or failure to provide enough detail to
afford the decision maker an opportunity to
respond precludes appeal to LUBA based on
that issue.
Additional information and/or
review of this application, including all
documents and evidence submitted, may be
obtained at Silverton City Hall, 306 South Water
Street, or by telephoning Jason Gottgetreu at
(503) 874-2212. Copies of the staff report will be
available seven (7) days prior to the public
hearing and are available for review at no cost
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at a reasonable cost.
Silverton Appeal
June 29, 2022
To clear that hurdle,
the KROC Center has of-
fered a reduced price
and even free lifeguard
certification
classes,
which typically cost
$200 for a three-day,
20-hour course on top of
the $40 American Red
Cross registration.
KROC Center Direc-
tor of Marketing Rick
Marazzani said this year
they have raised its
starting pay from $13.75
in 2021 to $16 an hour for
lifeguards starting Jan.
1, 70 percent of whom
are in high school or col-
lege.
“We’ve been working
really hard knowing
that half of them are go-
ing to go to their com-
munity pool and be life-
guards,”
Marazzani
said. “So we understood
that giving away free
lifeguard classes wasn’t
just for us, but that they
were going to protect
pools around the coun-
ty.
“It is slowly paying
off, and we should have
the
aquatics
team
staffed-up soon.”
Aside from lifeguard
classes, the KROC Cen-
ter also provides as
many hours of swim les-
sons, recreational swim
and lap swim as possi-
ble.
“Though, we always
need more lifeguards so
we can provide better
water safety and be
open more hours to the
public,” Marazzani said.
Marazzani said the
short supply of appli-
cants is “perplexing”
and one guess is that
young people were en-
joying socializing and
interacting with friends
after the long quaran-
tines and shutdowns.
Other sports-related
summer employment at
the KROC include fit-
ness attendant, sports
day camp counselors
and group fitness in-
structors.
The KROC Center
also offers a free teen
program called Re-
bound that hires young
adults to college-age
people to play games,
lead projects and activ-
ities.
The
Rebound
Drop-in lounge also has
the staff to tutor on
homework and help
study.
Marazzani said the
Rebound staff offer pro-
grams
and
classes
throughout the year
that teens are free to
participate in if they
wish.
“Job training for to-
day’s tough is important
to the KROC,” Marazzani
said. “Most of our teen
programming has a
component of career
training, life skills and
certifications.
“We have a program
over the summer where
teens who attend will
get their food handlers,
card, CPR certification,
job coaching, resume
building and interview
practice.”
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The high demand for
teen workers is a dra-
matic change.
Nicole
Ramos,
a
workforce analyst at the
Oregon
Employment
Department, said the
percentage of teens
working has been trend-
ing down since the
1990s. However, recent
data has shown an in-
crease in total quarterly
new hires from 2020 to
2021 in age groups 14-18
and 19-21.
In 1978, half of Amer-
ican teenagers held
down a job, the Associ-
ated Press reported. In
the decades since, fewer
have joined the work-
force with the number
falling steadily since
2000. By 2010, in the af-
termath of the financial
crisis, only 25% of 16- to
19-year-olds collected a
paycheck.
Researchers at Drexel
University’s Center for
Labor Markets and Poli-
cy predicted in a report
last month that an aver-
age of 33% of youths ages
16 to 19 will be employed
each month from June
through August this year.
The Oregon Restau-
rant & Lodging Associa-
tion reported 35,720 total
job postings from May
2021 to April 2022.
Further data showed
the top companies with
over 1,000 postings in-
cluded, Starbucks, Krog-
er, McDonald’s, Chipotle,
Pilot Flying J and Mod
Pizza, while the city of
Salem was among the
top five cities with 1,695
postings.
“Our post-COVID re-
ality has turned that
trend on its head and
created expanded op-
portunities for youth
looking for their first job
once
again,”
ORLA
President & CEO Jason
Brandt said.
Boys and Girls Club
of Salem, Marion and
Polk Counties
The Boys and Girls
Club of Salem, Marion
and Polk Counties have
experienced the same
hiring challenges that or-
ganizations across the
nation are feeling pri-
marily because its focus
is with youth through
high school age and
staffs 18 years or older.
“We run a teen work-
force development pro-
gram year round,” Boys
and Girls Club Director of
Marketing Kari Roberts
said. “Through that they
are eligible for some of
our summer employ-
ment opportunities.
“It is a specialized pro-
gram and our positions
are all filled.”
The Boys and Girls
Club also runs summer
sports camps where
many of its staff mem-
bers work for during the
school year as referees in
its youth sports pro-
grams.
City of Salem’s Parks
& Activities
Contrary to Marion
County’s overall current
labor market trend, the
City of Salem’s Parks &
Activities department,
which hires 16 years or
older for its recreation
activities, has had an ex-
cellent turnout heading
into this summer.
City Public Informa-
tion Officer Trevor Smith
said they wrapped up its
hiring process early last
week and are expected to
hire more than 20 people
to help staff its summer
recreation program.
“We have noticed that
many businesses with
entry level opportunities
are raising their mini-
mum salary equal to or
above
our
salaries,”
Smith said. “Fortunately,
our positions attract an
outdoorsy, active and en-
ergetic person.
“The unique opportu-
nities of working out-
doors with kids in our
parks system helps us
find good applicants in
this competitive labor
market.”
Edith Noriega is a
sports reporter for the
Statesman Journal. You
may reach her at ENorie-
ga@salem.g
annett.com and fol-
low her on Twitter at
@Noriega_Edith.