Specifications include, but are not limited to: This present Request for Information seeks: • Suggestions on the focus of services in the IRCs – whether to continue with services as currently rendered or whether, and if so how, to modify the focus of services; • Suggestions concerning the utility of one-stop centers to serve the immigrant community; • Suggestions concerning the utility of websites to serve the immigrant community; • Suggestions concerning what kind of resources the federal government can provide that would be most useful to the immigrant community; • Suggestions concerning what kind of resources the state government can provide that would be most useful to the immigrant community; • Suggestions concerning what kind of resources the county government can provide that would be most useful to the immigrant community; • Suggestions on how to improve language access of state agencies by including in their respective budgets for language access, bilingual outreach, and anti-discrimination training or by adding an enforcement provision for the Office of Language Access (OLA) to effectuate implementation; • Suggestions on how to support and fund more interpreters and translators; • Suggestions on how to better collect data for Hawaii’s many immigrant groups; • Suggestions on how to implement Anti-discrimination training to combat discrimination and marginalization of immigrant communities; • Suggestions on how to make available English language and acculturation education and training for all newly arrived immigrants; Suggestions on how to formalize outreach with use of bilingual staff, technology and ethnic media to immigrant communities; • Suggestions on how to coordinate service delivery and immigrant integration into the provision of services across state government; • Suggestions on how to mandate workforce training that incorporates economic integration of immigrants; • Suggestions on how to produce and update bilingual materials to support access to government services that meets legal requirements; • Suggestions on how to improve legal assistance to immigrants for immigration legal services; and • Other relevant suggestions and recommendations. • $35,000 of the IRC funds from State Fiscal Year 2024 is allotted for the Community Needs Assessment.
