![[logo] US EPA](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106031501im_/http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/images/logo_epaseal.gif){kind=logo}
Mission Statement:
EPA supports promoting environmental stewardship in the Hispanic community through collaborative efforts designed to address environmental concerns.
Overall Goal: Increase EPA’s relevance in the Spanish-speaking community
Forum Goals:
- Identify environmental concerns most important to the community
- Explore ideas for improvement of outreach, education and public involvement efforts initiated by EPA
- Enhance partnerships and networks
Background:
As a public organization, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is committed to serve the public by forging strong and dynamic partnerships with all of the nation’s communities. These partnerships promote EPA’s programs and services, allowing us to enhance our response to the public’s health and environmental priorities.; On September 15, 2008, EPA will host an event designed to improve the Agency’s relevance in the Spanish-speaking community. We are calling this effort “Beyond Translation.”
“Beyond Translation,” a stakeholder forum, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW. It will bring together community leaders representing environmental, grass-root and civic organizations, business, academia and local government. The forum will help us identify those environmental concerns of special interest to the Spanish-speaking community and ideas on how to improve outreach, education and public involvement efforts.
As part of the forum agenda, EPA’s Office of Small Business Programs will host a session on grants, contracts, and other economic opportunities available at EPA.
What the Forum will do:
- Seek community input on its environmental challenges and interests
- Hold special sessions to explore ideas for improvement of outreach, education and public involvement efforts initiated by EPA.
- Develop a stakeholders network to continue to enhance communications that go beyond translations.
What the Forum will not do:
- Although we want to hear from the different communities; we will not be addressing individual community concerns at this forum.
- Make promises we can not make or set false expectations.
EPA Multilingual Communications Outreach: Increasing Awareness in Many Languages