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2004 National Honors Program Honorees
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Asian American LEAD
Education becomes the entry point for AALEAD (Leadership, Empowerment and Development) to strengthen immigrant families and their communities. LEAD supports parents in realizing family goals despite language and cultural barriers. A youth leadership program offers tutoring, service learning and help with college applications, while younger children can attend after-school programs that serve the entire community. |
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CentroNía
Whole families grow up and grow stronger at the Learning Center. On average, children enroll in its programs for seven years. Parents attend workshops in parenting, literacy, computers and languages and call on services that help them strengthen their families. Community members form an extended family at the Learning Center, where most staff start out as parents taking part in its programs. |
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Connectinc.
With highly skilled counselors backed by sophisticated technology, Connectinc. uses a call center to help low-income families in 12 rural counties find and keep jobs, develop careers and build assets. Clients can call their counselors from otherwise isolated locations to get the information and encouragement to succeed as parents and earners. Computer resources give counselors instant access to a jobs data base, childcare resources, financial services and training opportunities. |
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Family Services Woodfield
Family Services Woodfield is so embedded in Bridgeport 's inner city that distinctions between staff and community blur. Most staff members come from the community and join with neighbors to shape an array of services that evolve with the needs of low-income families. Family Strengthening Teams connect families to senior care, mental health services and other programs. FSW's Family Assets, LLC, helps families increase their earning power, access affordable credit and build assets. Young people make and sell boats and guitars through FSW partnerships with business entrepreneurs. |
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Mutual Assistance Network of Del Paso Heights
In 1994, the community garden was the first of many programs MAN fostered to bring families together across the cultural divides among long-time, African American residents and Hispanic, Pacific Islander and Asian immigrants. MAN partners closely with Sacramento County to deliver the supports families need to become self-reliant. A nonprofit community development corporation, MAN also works to increase jobs and services in Del Paso Heights. |
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| Photo credits: AALEAD, Lia Chang; Mutual Assistance Network, Suzie Fitzhugh; all others, Carol Highsmith |
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