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 Did you know? The median income of Latinos remains far below that of other Californians: nearly 23% of Latinos live in poverty, compared to 8% of anglos. 40% of Latinos lack health insurance compared to 15% of non-Hispanic whites.
La Luz's Community Services program is an effort to connect people with important and basic resources by different ways in order to solve essential needs like food, housing and work.
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 Information & Referral
This La Luz program offers diverse and essential information to the people of Sonoma Valley about most important communities needs, including jobs, housing, legal assistance, health, and others. Through the Latino Concilio, La Luz helps to inform agencies serving the Latino community about available resources, improve the quality of service delivery and to identify gaps in the service continuum.
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 Job Matching
This la Luz program uses job information from prospective employers and clients seeking employment on the valley of the moon. We keep up to date case work on each client and have continual contact with both parties, we also match employee with employer and counsel client on how to find jobs. If you are and employer and have an open position please contact Kara Olness, our Client Services Coordinator, at (707) 938-5131 or write us.
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 Booker Hall Administration
This La Luz program is a host service for people and organizations who brings specific community services in all community development areas. By 2003 the Booker Hall will host: Mobile Health, Women Cooking Nutritional Group, Catholic Charities Food, Narcotics Anonymous, La Casa de la Amistad, Parenting Classes, Temporadas Culturales, Springs Potluck, WIC Child’s Portion Food.
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