APPENDIX C: Announcements and Promotional Material for Fuquay-Varina Community Forum

Forum Announcement Contact Letter for Interviewees

March 20, 2000

To Whom It May Concern:

Thank you in advance for helping us to inform the Fuquay-Varina community about our upcoming community forum. The forum will be held on Thursday evening, March 30 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Fuquay-Varina Middle School. I am attaching a fact sheet, which will help you spread the word about this important and exciting event.

My team and I certainly hope you and other community members will make an effort to attend the forum. With a good showing from the community, we will be able to take significant steps toward addressing some of the issues Fuquay-Varina residents have spoken out about during our project. If you have any questions regarding the project or the forum, please do not hesitate to contact me. I may be reached at 832-1264, or by email at haws@email.unc.edu.

Thanks again for your efforts on our behalf.

Sincerely,

Susan W. Haws

Forum Announcement Contact Letter for Pastors

March 21, 2000

Dear

Thank you in advance for helping us to inform your congregants about our upcoming community forum. The forum will be held on Thursday evening, March 30 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Fuquay-Varina Middle School. I am attaching a fact sheet, which will help you spread the word about this important and exciting event. In working with some members of the community to plan our forum, we have been informed that your advocacy of this event, along with that of your colleagues in other churches, could be the deciding factor in determining the level of community participation. While we know that your time is limited, we ask that you please consider making a verbal announcement during the Sunday services or at other times during the week. Also, we hope that you will be able to hang some of the flyers we are sending in high-traffic areas of the church and parish hall.

My team and I certainly hope you and other community members will make an effort to attend the forum. With a good showing from the community, we will be able to take significant steps toward addressing some of the issues Fuquay-Varina residents have spoken out about during our project. If you have any questions regarding the project or the forum, please do not hesitate to contact me. I may be reached at 832-1264, or by email at haws@email.unc.edu.

Thanks again for your efforts on our behalf.

Sincerely,

Susan W. Haws

Fuquay-Varina Community Forum
March 30, 2000
7:00- 9:00 p.m.
Fuquay-Varina Middle School

Fact Sheet:

• Over the past 6 months, a team of graduate students from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the School of Public Health at UNC has been working on a project called a community diagnosis in Fuquay-Varina.
• The purpose of the project is to gather information about the quality of life in Fuquay-Varina from a variety of sources.
• A very important aspect of the community diagnosis process is find and listen to the voices of people who accurately represent the community. This includes people who live and work in Fuquay-Varina as well as town officials and service providers, such as ministers and health care workers. We have interviewed over 40 community members.
• The community forum is the culminating event of the project. At the forum, community members have a chance to hear some of the main ideas that have emerged from the study.
• Also, at the forum, community members will have a chance to choose a topic or topics of interest to them, and meet in a small group to discuss ways the community could address the issue.
• Issues include growth, race relations, the Latino community, child care, health care, schools/education, and recreation.
• Child care will be available at the forum.
• Transportation is available at three locations : Pine Acres Community Center, 6:00 p.m.; Consolidated School (corner of W. Jones & Lawrence), and a location TBA which will serve the Latino community.
• Translation into Spanish and participation in Spanish will be offered.
• Refreshments will be served.

APPENDIX B: Interview Guides and Table of Interviewees

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APPENDIX D: Fuquay-Varina Community Forum Report