Piloting the Lotería games with Little Village Chamber of Commerce affiliates small business owners

Piloting the Lotería games with Little Village Chamber of Commerce affiliates small business owners

Lotería, the Spanish word for lottery, is a game of chance that is played throughout Latin America and throughout the U.S., particularly in Mexican communities. Similar to bingo, board cards numbers are replaced by illustrations. Variations of lotería are always evolving, so using the game as a tool to educate workers about job safety and workers’ rights is in the spirit of the game.

Launched in 2019, the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project (GLHWP) used surveys, concept mapping, focus groups, and secondary data analysis to understand how work affects health, to characterize what healthy and precarious work looks like, and to inform the development of its community initiatives. Through surveys with 500 people from Greater Lawndale, GLHWP learned that 70% of respondents did not have any health benefits and 78% didn’t get paid if they missed a day of work.

This data informed the content of the game, which was piloted and evaluated in several neighborhood settings. The findings showed that this educational game helps to facilitate hard conversations about unhealthy work and raised awareness among workers.

University of Illinois Center for Healthy Work

Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project

JPEG