Glendale CA Population Assessment

1.After arrival in the designated community (Glendale)

a.What evidences of a minority culture do you see? How does this affect the environment? (Are there advertising billboards, graffiti, etc., that reflect ethnic characteristics of community?)

b.Who do you see on the streets: elderly, young males, children, and women? (Indications of unemployment, constituencies, etc.)

c.What industries are represented in the community?

d.What would it be like to live in the community?

e.Is public transportation available?

f.How far to supermarkets and shopping centers?

g.What type of housing?

h.Where are “For Sale” signs?

i.Do you think people rent or own the housing?

j.What is the social-economic status of this community?

k.What recreational facilities are there in the area?

l.What kind of churches do you see in this area?

m.What potential environmental hazards did you identify?

2. What are the medical care facilities in this area? Doctors’ offices? Any evidence that physicians reflect the ethnic background of the population? How accessible are the medical facilities?

3. What would it be like to be a young single teenage mother in this community?

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