[ Report ] 2020 Census Outreach Report
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[ Report ] 2020 Census Outreach Report

In January 2021 we released a report documenting 2020 Census Outreach work completed by the We’re Here We Count campaign, a coalition of partners that was funded by the Washington State Office of Financial Management and included United Way of King County, King County, Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Pyramid Communications, Washington Census Alliance, Na’ah Illahee Fund, and Big Water Consulting.

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[ Report ] LCO Community Assessment Complete
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[ Report ] LCO Community Assessment Complete

Big Water would like to congratulate the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians on completing its LCO Community Assessment project. We had an opportunity to share the results of the household survey with project stakeholders and community members at LCO Ojibwe Community College in Hayward, Wisconsin on November 5. Our follow-up meetings with the Grants/Planning Department and the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School on November 6 will help ensure that this data is fully utilized by the Tribe and tribal programs and that future tribal data collection efforts will benefit from lessons learned in this project. This project serves as yet another example of tribes in northern Wisconsin taking a data-driven approach to planning, program management and the grant application process. We would also like to thank Enterprise Community Partners for providing critical matching funds in support of this capacity-building project.

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[ Report ] South Dakota Tribal Veterans Homeownership Study Reports Available Online
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[ Report ] South Dakota Tribal Veterans Homeownership Study Reports Available Online

Big Water Consulting partnered with the Cheyenne River Housing Authority, Oglala Sioux (Lakota) Housing and Sissteon Wahpeton Housing Authority as well as the Tribal Veterans Service Officers (TVSOs) for these three reservations to conduct a survey and a focus group with tribal veterans in each area. The purpose of this project was to determine evaluate veterans' housing needs, their interest in and qualification for homeownership, and opportunities to better serve those who served their country. We were honored to participate this project and would like to thank all of the contributors to this inaugural effort, including the tribal housing entities, the TVSOs, South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition (SDNHC), Lakota Funds and Enterprise Community Partners.

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[ Report ] Presentation of SISC King County AIAN Housing Needs Study to ATNI Housing Committee
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[ Report ] Presentation of SISC King County AIAN Housing Needs Study to ATNI Housing Committee

Kevin Klingbeil presented the results and key findings of the SISC King County American Indian and Alaska Native Housing Needs Study to the Housing Committee of ATNI. Discussion addressed the specific needs of Native students in Seattle, efforts to develop new housing for Native families and other subpopulations of the Native community in King County, and disparities between the income levels of Native households and the median household income for King County as well as the wide gap between the rising cost of housing in this area and what Native families can actually afford.  

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