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.
2010 Youth Organizing Scholarship Fund
The 2010 Youth Organizing Scholarship Fund application is now open. We will be awarding scholarships to Latino students going to college. Open the attached file on the link below to see the application and the scholarship criteria.
Youth Organizing Summer Internships!
Centro Campesino has always believed on the importance of creating new leaders for the movement of social justice. Centro Campesino's Youth Organizing is an organizing campaign involving youth from Junior High and High school from different towns in rural Minnesota. They get together to organize and learn about issues related to social justice and education.
As a result of their effort and work, we have decided to create these summer internships in order to empower Latino students and help them develop their leadership skills.
Summer Internships:
Dream Act! The Time is Now!
It seems like the chances of having a comprehensive immigration bill approved by congress this year are small. Much of the efforts in the next months will be concentrated in pushing stand-alone bills such as the DREAM ACT and AgJobs.
Now! Youth Network
In 2008 members of our different youth organizing committees in Owatonna, Waseca and Northfield started to meet to discuss and plan the formation of a larger youth-led structure in southern Minnesota. Our young leaders have been meeting regularly to plan this structure that would serve as the organizational body to mobilize and unite Latino youth. This structure has been named Now! Youth Network.
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!
Youth Organizing Poster Contest!!!
"Change the World" training series
Members of the Now! Youth Network,
This Saturday November 21st, 2009 we will be having a "Change the World" training series for all of our members. The trainings are an excellent opportunity for you to learn new leadership skills and to learn how to make a difference in the world! This is also excellent material to put on your resume for your college applications and scholarships! Don't miss it.
We will have guest trainers from different organizations among them:
Salvador Miranda, Community Organizer with the Organizing Apprenticeship Project in Minneapolis
Dia de los Muertos Celebration
Centro Campesino and Carleton College invites you to our “Day of the Dead” Celebration!
Don’t Miss it!
Date:
Monday November 2nd
Time:
5:30 p.m.
Place:
Carleton College
Great Hall
Northfield, MN 55057
We will have:
• Delicious Mexican Food from “La Vencedora” Mexican Store
• Music
• Art exhibits by local Latino youth and parents and featured Latino artist Carlos Rojas.
• Artistic Shows
• Aztec Dancing
• And much more!
Centro Awards $7,000.00 in scholarships
Dear Friends and Allies,
Centro Campesino is proud to announce its third scholarship fund award round. This year members of our youth organizing initiative now united under the Now! Youth Action Network will be distributing $ 7,000.00 in scholarships to deserving Latino students going to college. Nine students from Northfield, Faribault, Austin, Waseca, Medford, and Albert Lea will be receiving a scholarship from our fund.
