Círculos: A Healing Space Our Pathways to Success program has three different components: Truancy Prevention, Parental Engagement, and Life Skills Development. Our Healing Círculos is where we focus on the latter, and a Círculos Facilitator is essential to the impact that the Latino Center wants to have on youth [...]
Cultivating Community Siembra Salud or "Grow Wellness" in English, is an at-home gardening and health initiative that uses gardening as a catalyst to address comprehensive health and social needs. Trained staff address and improve access to affordable produce in the southeast Omaha community through at-home gardening. They also provide education [...]
El Camino Latino Conference Read the full story on Omaha.com Bellevue University will host its first El Camino Latino Conference virtually Feb. 26. The conference aims to connect high school seniors with Omaha corporation and opportunities. Participating companies include Cox Communications, LinkedIn, Nebraska Public Power District, Omaha Public Power District and [...]
'Awesome opportunity': Major South Omaha stakeholders start English language classes on worksite To read the full story, visit KETV.com Immigrants have started new lives and jobs in Omaha. Feeling confident in an unfamiliar culture, however, can still seem like a daunting task. Two major stakeholders with [...]
Moving Forward: Strong roots helping the local community grow To see the original article, visit KETV.com. OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — From a young age, Cecilia Saavedra enjoyed the outdoors with her mom and grandma. They're the ones who planted the seed in her head to love gardening. “I've always been very hands-on,” [...]
This year we're taking our annual Destino Dinner online! We're putting together a dynamic program of education, dancing, and cocktails (at home). Purchase your ticket or sponsorship today! In addition to serving as our largest fundraiser, the Destino Dinner is an opportunity to highlight how programs of LCM impact lives in the [...]
Fresh Produce, Health Products, Soccer Balls: Latino Center of the Midlands Helps Omaha Neighbors To read the original article, visit Omaha.com. The line of vehicles filled with people seeking food and health products stretched Wednesday onto the side streets and neighborhoods near Omaha South High School. People left with boxes of [...]
Latino Center of the Midlands Reopens To see the original article, visit KETV 3 News Now. OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — An organization helping thousands of metro residents get jobs and improve their lives has re-opened their building. The Latino Center of the Midlands closed their building in March because of the COVID [...]
Latino Center of the Midlands launches its own internship, summer jobs program Read the original article at Omaha.com. The Latino Center of the Midlands expects to connect about 35 South Omaha teenagers with paid summer internships this year through a newly expanded program aimed at helping students gain work experience while [...]
Siembra Salud Addressing and improving access to affordable produce in the southeast Omaha community through backyard garden education and training. Our community cultivadoras, trained in urban agriculture and healthy living, utilize a place-based approach to address food insecurity in southeast Omaha. Families are provided with education and training to [...]