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CCA: Center for Community Advocacy

CCA's Mission The center for community advocacy trains farmworkers to form and lead the neighborhood-based tenant and health committees that, themselves, advocate for improved housing and health conditions for farmworkers and other low-income families in Monterey County and Santa Cruz county.

CCA's Vision: A community where farmworkers are empowered to serve as leaders for their neighborhoods and where community decision-makers seek the counsel of these farmworker leaders.

VPA Student Collaboration The students of the Digital Mural class collaborated with the health workers of the Center for the Community Advocacy in a comprehensive project to promote health among farm workers. The Center for COmmunity Advocacy (CCA) Promotores de Salud Project is a farm worker based, peer-to-peer health outreach program that operates through a network of housing site-based, CCA trained farm worker tenant-committees, each with its own indigenous farm worker leadership.

The images in the post cards and in the billboard reflect the negotiation between visual imagination and community knowledge and produce a powerful public project that will reach out into the Salinas Valley and is the part of a creative process about service learning in its many forms. Through the arts students were able to realize compassion and an understanding of social justice in action. Through the support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation the promotores materials designed by VPA students were provided free of cost to the health workers for distribution

Poder Popular ______________________________________________________________________________

Poder Popular is a program dedicated for the way of life of the farm workers. Poder Popular fundamentally believes that the quality of life in a community would be able to sustain longer if the development of the community would be based on the capabilities, skill and resources of the people in the community. To accomplish, it is necessary to mobilize and give power to the workers and their families in the places where they live, so they can organize and to better the social conditions, physical and from work. '