Multicultural
Community Events
MERITO has reached over 12,000 adults and 3000 children
from April 2006 to present by participating in Multicultural Community
Events and Youth Career Fairs. MERITO staff often in collaboration
with Channel Islands Naturalist Corps (CINC) presents information
booths at community events providing printed and spoken information
in English and Spanish about the sanctuary resources and programs,
and educates our culturally diverse residents on how we can all
contribute to ocean protection and how we all benefit from the
ocean
Click
here for more info.
Youth
Cartoon Contest with Environmental Messages
In May 2006, MERITO at CINMS in collaboration with
Ojai Valley Youth Foundation’s Generations Communications
program sponsored and hosted the first cartoon contest with environmental
message for 8th-12th grade students in Santa Barbara and Ventura
Counties. The contest sparked extensive community involvement
of schools, teachers, students and community leaders and representatives.
Student entries came from schools in Ventura, Santa Barbara, Santa
Maria and Camarillo.
Click
here for more info.
Bilingual
Outreach Materials
MERITO integrates Multicultural elements to existing
CINMS programs and materials for education, resource protection
and research. MERITO has collaborated in recent CINMS bilingual
outreach products such as Spanish-language signage at the Santa
Barbara Zoo, and the informative brochure ‘Protecting Our
Channel Islands’ in Spanish. MERITO produced bilingual bus
signs utilizing the grand-prize winner’s cartoon strip of
the 2006 cartoon contest with environmental message.
Click
here for more info.
For more info. contact:
Rocio Lozano-Knowlton,
MERITO Bilingual Education and Outreach Specialist
NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Channel Islands Harbor
3600 S. Harbor Blvd. Suite 111, Oxnard, CA 93035
(805) 382-6149 x 108 office (805) 382-9791 fax
http://channelislands.noaa.gov
