Center for Latino Progress - CPRF
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Mission Statement
Formerly the Connecticut Puerto Rican Forum, The Center for Latino Progress (The Center) is a partner in building stronger communities and celebrating the strength, vitality and potential of our Latino community. We do this by providing culturally competent services and programs that foster individual and community growth, and create economic opportunities for all.
About This Cause
The mission of the Center for Latino Progress - CPRF is to advance the socioeconomic conditions of the community at large, with emphasis on Hispanics, through education, training, supportive services, leadership development, and advocacy. As a Latino led organization, comprised of migrants and immigrants, its leadership understands, experiences, and recognizes the array of barriers and challenges our community encounters. Over 40 years, it has embraced people of all nationalities; it has been a story of hope, perseverance, and community triumph. The Center continues to be a magnet for Limited English Proficient (LEP) folks who have made CT their home. With us, they learn English, navigate workforce systems and adjust to life in Hartford in a myriad of ways. Because they encounter a society that requires a higher proficiency of literacy and vocational knowledge in order to achieve upward mobility, the Center has developed adult programs that are pathways for careers, self-sufficiency, and independence. We provide youth programs that prevent dropout and create career guidance. We collaborate with Latino leaders and professionals providing workshops in leadership, workers’ rights, financial literacy, and advocacy. We promote worker safety especially for those working at the low-end of the pay scale, where typically unsafe working conditions are most likely to exist. The Center offers lifetime services to its participants. The Center is recognized and accredited by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to provide legal and linguistically appropriate services, and culturally competent naturalization programs to the growing legal permanent resident population in the area. The Center’s BiCi Co. (Bicicleta y Comunidad) is the only bike community space in the Hartford region. BiCi Co. is a bike outlet and a safe space for bike enthusiasts and future riders. It is about promoting an opportunity to improve youth and adult safety, while also increasing our community’s mobility and access to jobs in the City of Hartford. Since 1978, we offer culturally competent services and programs that foster individual and community growth, and create economic opportunities for all.