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<br />populations); connection to the Tri-Valley community;
<br />and interest in serving on the EAPAC. Questions were
<br />designed to be open-ended, optional, and require
<br />minimal time to complete. The Community Liaison
<br />was integral to ensuring that the language on the
<br />form was accessible and inclusive, and that the form
<br />was not a barrier to participation.
<br />Twenty-seven responses were received and all
<br />interested candidates were contacted via phone and/
<br />or email to set up a 15–20-minute phone screen.
<br />The JSI Project Team and Community Liaison
<br />developed a set of questions to ask EAPAC candidates
<br />during the phone screen:
<br />•Would you be able to meet for 1.5 hours in the
<br />evening once every other month?
<br />•Are there groups of people you would not be able
<br />to work with?
<br />•What groups are you most comfortable working
<br />with?
<br />•What communities do you feel that you are most
<br />connected with?
<br />•We will be discussing a variety of social and health
<br />topics throughout this process, such as adolescent
<br />health and LGBTQIA+ advocacy. Are there any
<br />topics you would not feel comfortable engaging
<br />with?
<br />•Specific follow-up questions about their
<br />applications.
<br />JSI Project Team members and the Community
<br />Liaison conducted phone screens, during which notes
<br />were taken in a shared spreadsheet and reviewed
<br />after. Based on the initial phone screen, if there was
<br />any uncertainty about a candidate, a second team
<br />member conducted an additional phone conversation.
<br />Using documentation from these calls, the JSI Project
<br />Team and Community Liaison recommended EAPAC
<br />members, selected to represent all three cities, with
<br />experience accessing and/or directly providing human
<br />services in the Tri-Valley, diverse backgrounds (e.g.,
<br />race, ethnicity, cultural, linguistic), and representing
<br />one or more priority populations. Candidates who
<br />were employed by a city or county government
<br />agency and served on the Tri-Valley Human Services
<br />Joint Commission were ineligible due to potential
<br />conflicts of interest. The list of recommended EAPAC
<br />members was brought to core city staff for discussion
<br />and approval. Ten people were invited to join the
<br />EAPAC. The other 16 candidates were thanked
<br />for their interest and informed they had not been
<br />selected. They were also invited to participate in a
<br />future focus group or interview, if interested.
<br />STEERING COMMITTEE
<br />Steering Committee candidate selection was
<br />informed by the landscape scan interviews and
<br />through recommendations from the three city staff
<br />members. The selection process ensured there
<br />was representation from the three cities, a mix
<br />of nonprofit, community, and Alameda County
<br />representation, racial and ethnic diversity, and that
<br />organizational type spanned the various categories
<br />of human services guided by the Kaiser Family
<br />Foundation Framework (i.e., economic stability,
<br />neighborhood and physical environment, education,
<br />food, community and social context, and health care
<br />system).8 As a result, individuals from the following
<br />organizations were selected: Las Positas Career
<br />Center, Livermore USD, Alameda County Social
<br />Services, Alameda County Department of Public
<br />Health, Axis Community Health, Alameda County
<br />Community Health Improvement Plan, Alameda
<br />County Housing and Community Development
<br />Agency, Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs
<br />Tri-Valley Chapter, CityServe of the Tri-Valley, Open
<br />Heart Kitchen, and the cities of Dublin, Livermore,
<br />and Pleasanton.
<br />Priority Populations
<br />From the data gathered through the landscape
<br />scan interviews, quantitative demographic data,
<br />City Council meetings, Human Service Commission
<br />meetings, and advisory groups, 12 groups were
<br />identified as priority populations for the Needs
<br />Assessment (table 3).
<br />Although this Needs Assessment is meant to capture
<br />the breadth of lived experiences among residents
<br />of the Tri-Valley, particular emphasis was placed on
<br />the communities that were anticipated to be most
<br />in need of human services, may have had a distinct
<br />lived experience based on one or more identity
<br />characteristics, and most likely to be affected by the
<br />resulting recommendations.
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