May 18, 2008, in Mighty Tieton
Five Year Strategic Vision
La Casa Hogar is building a foundation for growth and empowerment
through healthy kids, healthy moms, healthy families, healthy
schools, and healthy community.
Who we serve
Members of the diverse population of Hispanic newly arrived
immigrant women and children in the Yakima Valley participate
in a faith-based community transformation opportunity while
building a sense of family community and developing a variety
of leadership abilities. These women are empowered to practice
self-sufficiency through education, gaining highly valued
skills in computer and family literacy, English as a Second
language, and early learning activities in our children’s
learning center and leadership.
As a faith-based coalition of people serving to grow a healthy
community, La Casa Hogar/Yakima Interfaith Coalition both
provides and cultivates educational resources that meet the
diverse needs of the Hispanic immigrant women and children
of Yakima and its surrounding neighborhoods, creating a diverse,
healthy, and self-sustaining resource for transformation in
eastern Washington.
Our original mission — providing emergency resources for
homeless people and those with an emergent resource need,
on behalf of faith communities — also continues today.
Emergency resource delivery that assists those who are homeless
and educational experiences for Hispanic immigrant women and
their children both provide a variety of opportunities to
cultivate empowerment and self-sufficiency. Yakima Interfaith
Coalition La Casa Hogar honors and upholds the diverse heritage
of the Yakima Valley through its assistance to newly arrived
immigrants while witnessing powerful community and individual
transformation.
Our Mission
We are people who, believing in the sacredness of identity
and dignity, relationship and community, compassion and justice,
hope and promise, and motivated by our faith are serving to
transform community through shared emergency resources and
educational opportunities.
God has called the Yakima Interfaith Coalition to serve as
a transforming force within our community through:
- Creating places of welcome and hospitality for all persons;
- Providing emergency services when other sources fail or
are not available;
- Offering educational and learning opportunities for women
and children;
- Providing settings where barriers between people may be
broken down;
- Working toward the social and spiritual reconciliation
and transformation of the whole community.
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