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CLUES Economic Advancement Services incorporates the employment and education departments, financial empowerment program, homeownership services, and the Learning Together program, under one holistic system of service delivery. This approach develops economic vitality and strives to create and sustain wealth in low-income and underserved Latino and new immigrant neighborhoods and communities. Our innovative efforts are designed to produce both short and long-term answers to the challenging economic times. We employ a linguistically appropriate and culturally proficient family centric model to assist Latino individuals and families in overcoming barriers to family stability and economic advancement. Programs are coordinated to further clients along the self-sufficiency continuum as they increase English language skills and education levels, attain and retain better jobs, learn how to support their children to succeed in school and life, learn to save, accumulate assets and improve financial knowledge to make wise choices that benefit them now, and provide security well into the future.
Education Department
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Success Story
When Juan attended an Employment Services orientation at CLUES, he had been unemployed for a long time. He didn’t have anything to eat, was about to be evicted from the apartment where he was living, and didn’t have any money to send to his mother in Nicaragua. Juan’s employment counselor told him about...
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