Community Partnerships
Core Partners
Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige High School
6621 N. Stephens Ranch Road
La Verne, CA 91750
Contact:
Urban Fellow: Susy Sobel: 909.607.8502
Faculty Liaison: Susan Phillips - Professor of Anthropology
CEC operates an academic enrichment program at Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige, a juvenile detention facility and high school located in LaVerne, CA. Since the program's inception, CEC has incorporated poetry and spoken word lessons into a continually developing literacy curriculum. We also offer a variety student-designed programs, tutoring, and juvenile justice advocacy opportunities.
Prototypes Women's Center
831 E. Arrow Highway
Pomona, CA 91767
Contact:
Urban Fellow: Jana Heyman: 909.607.8502
Faculty Liaison: Laura Harris - Professor of English and World Literature
The Prototypes Women’s Center in Pomona is a comprehensive, residential treatment facility for women who are seeking to recover from substance abuse and their children. The center can house up to 143 women and 90 children at any given time. Services offered at the Women’s Center include parenting training, HIV/AIDS counseling, individual and group therapy, survivors’ groups, vocational training, 12-step meetings, literacy training, and medical services.
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
P.O. Box 2469
Pomona, CA 91796
Tel: (909) 397-4215
www.pomonadaylabor.org
Contact:
Urban Fellow: Melanie Epstein: 909.607.8183
Faculty Liaison: Jose Calderon - Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Chicano Studies
The Pomona Economic Opportunity-Day Labor Center provides a safe, legal site for day laborers to gather and act collectively to ensure safe, fair working conditions for its members. Day Laborers are available to perform a variety of tasks from raking leaves and building fences, to laying tile or building walls. Workers are skilled and responsible. Staff is on hand to translate if necessary and to assist in salary negotiation and work arrangements. The Pomona Day Labor Center encourages you to support members of the Center and discourage those who loiter on the corner.
Fernando Pedraza Community Coalition
Corner of Arrow and Grove
Rancho Cucamonga
Contact:
Urban Fellow: Melanie Epstein: 909.607.8183
Faculty Liaison: Jose Calderon - Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Chicano Studies
The Fernando Pedraza Community Coalition (FPCC) is a program of the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center. The goal of the FPCC, is to educate, organize and serve as a liaison between local residents and workers. Our intention is to reach out to local residents and day laborers and create bridges of understanding as we act as a vehicle for the community to voice support or concerns of the workers for mutual benefit.