Youth Organizing and Educational Equity
The purpose of this project is to use community organizing to educate, organize and ultimately empower immigrant youth and parents in our communities to assure the academic and personal success of Latino kids and youth and work towards educational equity in rural Minnesota.
Educational Equity is an essential part of our campaign. The organizing Latino parents become an essential piece of our plan to assure the academic and overall success of Latino children and youth in our community. This is a new part for our project. In 2008 we started organizing parents across rural Minnesota, providing workshops and creating small parent committees. We have been successful at bringing the issue of parental involvement to the table and many parents are interested in getting more involved and getting together to work for their kids' future. Our Educational Equity component will work to assure that Latino parents have the necessary tools and information to become the primary advocates for the education of Latino children of all ages in rural Minnesota.
We work to accomplish our purpose via the following objectives:
1) Empowerment through Education: We develop educational materials and conduct workshops and individual one-one on ones with immigrant youth and parents in our communities to educate them about issues related to education and their education related rights.
2) Leadership Development: We train immigrant youth and parents in rural Minnesota on community organizing and leadership skills to develop a base of leaders ready to act and mobilize on the issues that impact their lives.
3) Promoting Access to Higher Education: We organize and educate immigrant youth and parents to promote and increase the access to higher education for our immigrant youth in rural Minnesota.
4) Promoting Educational Policy Change: We organize parents and immigrant youth to help them identify policy proposals or policy changes at the local, state and national level that would benefit immigrant students and move our communities closer to educational equity.
5) Building Social Capital: We organize parents and students to create alliances with schools, school districts and teachers and we promote strategic collaborations to assure the academic success of immigrant students.
NOW! Youth Network Car Wash!!!
Queen Of Angels Church
1001 Oakland Ave. East - Austin, MN
The students of the NOW! Youth Network are having a CAR WASH!! All proceeds benefit the Centro Campesino Scholarship Fund!!! For more information contact Jesus or Ramiro: Jesus@centrocampesino.net or Ramiro@centrocampesino.net. Or call our office at 507.446.9599.
If you would like to download a better copy of the flyer, please see attachments below.
See you Saturday!
NOW! Youth Network Car Wash!!!
Centro Campesino Office Park Lot - 216 N. Oak Ave. Owatonna, MN
The students of the NOW! Youth Network are having a CAR WASH!! All proceeds benefit the Centro Campesino Scholarship Fund!!! For more inforamtion contact Jesus or Ramiro: Jesus@centrocampesino.net or Ramiro@centrocampesino.net. Or call our office at 507.446.9599.
If you would like to download a better copy of the flyer, please see attachments below.
See you Thursday!
