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Emerging Latino Communities The Latino population continues to grow at rapid rates in areas of the country not traditionally associated with Hispanics. The promise of these emerging communities, as well as the very real contributions they are making to the economies and social fabric of their new home states, are the heart of the work undertaken by NCLR’s Emerging Latino Communities (ELC) Initiative. Working with CBOs in the Northwest, the Midwest, and particularly the South, NCLR provides training and capacity-building assistance in a variety of areas to support the development of Latino organizational infrastructure, which helps Latinos improve their social and economic status, gain influence, and become fully integrated into American society. ELC groups organize their communities around critical local issues such as increasing parental involvement in schools, providing Spanishlanguage services, increasing civic participation, increasing access to health care for Latino families, and decreasing youth violence. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF L A RAZ A | 2005 ANNUAL REPORT
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