Parent meeting At Centro Campesino

Parent Meeting facilitated by Venches Papillon
Article by Maia Rivero

Centro Campesino in partnership with the Parent Resource center has monthly workshops and choice chats for the parents, all of them done in Spanish. We’ve gotten off to a great start, and we’ve been able to host several chats at the center with great parent participation. Parents are able to bring their children, and while they sit in the chat the children are taken to a play area so the parents can focus but at the same time feel safe. Dinner is usually provided. What better way to bring a group of people together than with a little food.

Centro Campesino is dedicated to improving the living conditions and self-sufficiency of migrant and seasonal farmworkers, their children, and other low-income families of all ethnic and racial backgrounds. As a private, nonprofit community development corporation, Centro focuses its efforts and programs on the major avenues of services such as affordable housing development, housing rehabilitation, employment and training in construction, clerical and other vocational skills, youth development programs, emergency disaster relief, leadership development, and community-building.