 "Nueva Generacion" youth leadership interns participate in HIV/AIDS awareness training. |
1995 Now in it twelfth year, CARECEN begins the process of revising its strategic plan and mission. Five Nueva Generación Youth Leadership Interns graduate and go on to local colleges and universities. The program continues to provide first generation Central American youth a sense of community and leadership while preparing them with social and technical skills for college. Nueva Generación youth organizer Vladimir Cerna is elected student body president at Cal State University Northridge, the first Salvadoran youth to hold that office. CARECEN and the SVCLA work with architecture students participating in "Insurgent Urbanism" at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) to design street vending carts to meet city design specifications. After Prop. 187 passage, the attacks on immigrants escalate. CARECEN joins a protest march against the beatings of Mexican workers in South El Monte. Early in 1995, CARECEN takes a delegation of board members and staff to establish a temporary office in El Salvador and investigate the possibility of a summer student exchange. |