Community Assets and Challenges
Strengths
- Very strong family bonds
- Team-oriented (work together)
- Hard working and will work multiple jobs to provide for their families
- Go with the flow (also can work as a weakness, “afraid to rock the boat”)
Challenges
- Weather
- Language
- Family separation (isolation,nostalgia)
- Discrimination
- Limited ability to be independent in
- A foreign country
- Transportation
- Name and Last names Confusion
- Integration
- Achieve public outcomes
- Socially connected to community
- Linguistic competence
- cultural knowledge.
Changes in Family Structure
Changes in family dynamics. Traditionally, the man is head and breadwinner. Women are dedicated as homemakers. Roles and responsibilities change: Men loose/share power. Need to learn how to do domestic chores. Women need to learn to be independent; providers and protectors without abandoning their role of nurturers. Different levels of acculturation and language skills in children and parents. Our youth live between two worlds (The sandwich generation) and many sacrifice the opportunity to go to school in order to provide for their family. Elders have a hard time understanding the integration process in their family members. Assertive behaviors are considered disrespectful.