Angela Germany Children and Teen Services Consultant State Library of Louisiana

(Re)Building Latina/o Outreach: Steps to Engaging Your Community Takeaways: Get outside your comfort zone Evaluate your Latina/o services Latinx (instead of Latina/Latino) Create a Latino Advisory Committee for your library to help in developing services & programs Tons of additional resources on WebJunction This year I really wanted to focus on learning more about reaching youth in underserved, poverty and at-risk communities. So the three presentations I’m going to mention have this as a common thread.

Applying an Equity Lens: Shifting Resources to Reach Low Income Audiences Takeaways: Understand what Equity is Evaluate your services to at-risk populations Create an “Opportunity Map” Advancing Racial Equity in Public Libraries Case Studies from the Field, https://www.racialequityalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/GARE_LibrariesReport_Issue-Paper-April-2018.pdf This was an eye-opening session for me personally.

Take Summer Reading to the Streets: Partnering to Reach Children with Barriers to Library Access Takeaways: 1 in 4 Third graders are not reading proficiently Create a “Poverty Map” to target services https://www.communitycommons.org/maps‐data/ “Families Living in Poverty” Survey after the program: “Are you reaching the right kids?”

Children and Teen Services Consultant State Library of Louisiana Angela Germany Children and Teen Services Consultant State Library of Louisiana agermany@slol.lib.la.us