Mi Familia Vota – Nevada: Community Information Night

Earlier this week, Mi Famila Vota – Nevada and our summer interns partnered up with two other local Latino organizations to host a Community Information Night. Our interns were tasked with four different community research initiatives to complete and present at the culminating community information night; research our recent state budget cuts and find out how the cuts will adversely affect Latino’s, gather as much information as possible about questions people may have about being undocumented, understanding your rights regardless of your status, and finding free or inexpensive services that would be beneficial to the Latino communities. This was a big task, but our interns were up for the challenge.

They had all been working the entire summer, researching, calling, interviewing, and nosing around on organization’s websites to find information that they could use for their projects. As some of you may know, an event isn’t just about the presentations, you have to secure a location and also get people to show up! With some friendly supervision and guidance from our Mi Familia Vota staff, all of the above was placed on the plates of our interns.

Our interns worked diligently to prepare their projects for presentation day, and we were all anxious and nervous when the day finally came. Putting the finishing touches on their hand outs and presentation speeches, we headed over to our partner organization’s office, the LUZ Coalition was gracious enough to let us use their space as well as provide some great information about additional services that their partner organizations offer the Latino community. We also had DREAM Big Vegas, a Latino youth organization, help present our project on being undocumented. The room was packed and everyone was paying attention to our interns and our partner organizations as we presented them a summer’s worth of information and resources to the audience.

One of our interns was deathly afraid to speak in front of an audience, but she did an amazing job and finished her presentation even though she was nervous. It was a rewarding experience for Mi Familia Vota – Nevada and our interns, because it made them aware of all the different ways they could help their communities. After we left the event, our interns were all anxious and excited that it was finally over! We even asked our interns to write blogs about their internships and their experiences with these summer projects, because they’ve really grown as young people.

Mi Familia Vota’s community information night was a great success and we could not have done it without the hard work, dedication, and teamwork of our summer interns. The Latino community has some new friends in our summer interns!

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