We create value when we empower vulnerable individuals and families in need to become self-sustainable and self-reliant, with initiatives that will improve well-being, self-esteem, and dignity.
We want to assist our most vulnerable clients and their families with their most immediate needs, but also assist and coach the served individuals and families to be self-sustainable and self-reliant. Instead of serving the client once, we will assess their needs in different dimensions (health, finance, education, housing, etc.), identify the most impactful interventions, make successful internal and external referrals, and, in partnership with the client, develop a long-term or short-term plan of care to overcome the barriers that leave them vulnerable. Referrals (internal and/or external) will be successful if THEY ARE relevant and cohesive to the client’s plan of care.
Academic Development Support
for Children and Youth
We want to support every young person in need to build a strong foundation to prepare for and complete the highest level of postsecondary education or training to achieve their career goals. We want to incentivize and nurture the college going and/or career development culture in our community by offering to children, youth, and their parents the support they need throughout their whole academic life (from prenatal care through their first year of college) for them to be able to make informed decisions and to overcome inequities created by the racial/economic/social divides.
We want to be a workforce development hub, support system for job creation and key connector in the region, offering training, coaching, and a job bank to connect clients with career opportunities to employers in need of staff. We want to help the unemployed to find a sustainable job in their area of interest and expertise while mutually helping the employer to find the talent they need. We want to assist the employers to retain their employees by offering to their employees assistance in developing their careers, and relevant tools (workshops, translation, outreach) to improve the employee/employer relationship and work conditions.
Partnership with other workforce development initiatives
Center for the Latin-American Entrepreneur
To support and empower the existing entrepreneurship talents in our community and develop new entrepreneurs by offering and providing relevant and impactful tools to increase the number of successful businesses, and to grow and scale those businesses.
Emprendedores del Futuro (training for future entrepreneurs)
Business plan development
Business mentorship
Licensing workshops
Small business incubator
Facilitation of angel investment
Life Skills and Wellbeing Training Center
We offer adults workshops and courses relevant to workforce development (technical skills, professional development), on subjects that are essential to navigate the complicated U.S. bureaucratic system (taxes, immigration, adult education, banking, building credit) and also on topics that are important to improve quality of life (healthy habits, wellbeing, etc.)
