Capaces Core Programs Sprouted with Comunidad, for Comunidad
Talento Universitario Regresando a Nuestros Origenes, or TURNO creates a path for high school-aged indigenous, afro-descendant, migrant, and Latinx youth to embrace and prepare for long-term movement leadership through self-discovery and development, community-based service, workforce skill-building, and access to further education.
People’s Representatives is a civic leadership development and support network program for community leaders governing collectively for lasting social change focused on the Mid-Willamette Valley. Our strategy is two fold:
- Strengthen the knowledge base of the Representantes and El Pueblo
- Build strong communities within the Representatives network and El Pueblo
Centralized at the Anahuac Farm, the Anahuac Program is a community centered program that offers traditional education in agriculture, culinary and cultural arts, wellness, and native languages. The work aims to unify the Indigenous communities of America, in the dominant culture known as farmworkers, whose labor has been exploited throughout the food system. We are here to sow seeds of sovereignty with organic cultivation of our milpa (corn, squash and beans) and maintain relationships with our traditional foods and lifeways
Primeros Pasos Early Childhood Education and Care advocates for and implements best-in-class workforce development, provider support, and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) systems in the Mid-Willamette Valley. This programs’ initiative is specifically tailored to Latino communities and working families, incorporating culturally based early learning resources.
The Alianza Poder Community Health Workers Hub is an emerging program within the Capaces Leadership Institute. The purpose of this program is to serve our local communities in Marion, Polk, and Yamhill counties by improving community health and promoting health equity through a culturally responsive training that is focused primarily on social determinants of health and adverse community environments.
The Oregon Community Table on Postsecondary Education and Training, or OCTPET is Oregon’s first statewide community advocacy group focused on addressing the disparities in education of our underrepresented students in postsecondary education and training. Its purpose is to transform our postsecondary higher education systems to better serve underrepresented and underserved students in Oregon by advocating for equity, access, affordability, through policy change.
Capaces houses and serves as a “backbone” organization to the Alianza Poder (AP) Nework, the Latinx Community Wealth Building Network (LCWB), and the Oregon DACA Coalition (ODC). AP is a collaborative of ten sister organizations, hosted and coordinated by the CAPACES Leadership Institute (CLI), whose serving, organizing, and building the leadership of the Latina/o/x communities in Oregon to improve the quality of life for all, especially working families.