The Latino Resource Center

We are proud to be recognized as leading source of culturally specific materials for the Spanish speaking community. We believe that in a very brief period of time the  Latino Resource Center has met some very important initial goals in its process to becoming a leader representing prevention needs of alcohol tobacco and other drugs for the Hispanic community.

The center is located in Minneapolis and houses competent and certified staff recognized for their abilities, skills, and strengths within the prevention field. It also offers culturally specific pamphlets, brochures, and videos in both Spanish and English that address a broad array of chemical dependency prevention topics.

Our objectives include:

• Increase the visibility and accessibility of linguistically appropriate and culturally competent Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD) resources and trainings to service providers statewide to increase knowledge of the needs of the Latino community and their ability to serve this community.

• Build capacity of ATOD prevention professionals to serve the Latino communities in/near Albert Lea (south Minnesota), Moorhead and Willmar.

• Train and support ATOD prevention staff in the use of technology in the field of prevention in the Latino community.

• Create ways to sustain the Latino Resource Center financially.

 The ability to make the inroads for the Spanish speaking community via the success of the social services of Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) has enhance the accessibility of written, video and audio materials as well as professional presentations throughout the state.

We believe that the important issues surrounding chemical dependency and its’ prevention will continue to be regarded as high priority as the Latino resource Center serves the community.

We have gone from a fairly new program that’s introduced in the community to a program that has not only established itself in the community but has become a reputable provider of Latino ATOD expertise.