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Community Empowerment and Opportunity Center

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Mission

The specific purpose of the organization is to advocate for and assist all seniors,disabled individuals,women, young people, children,military veterans,as well as their families,frustrated by social, physical, emotional, financial,employment, and educational obstacles. These obstacles may include homelessness, health problems, and poor access to the medical system, legal challenges, difficulties in understanding and obtaining advantages from public benefit programs, such as medi-cal/medicare, Social Security,and Supplemental Security income disability programs, general assistance,food stamps,transportation,etc.

We aim at reinforcing the value of every human being through counseling,directing to legal resources,employment and housing opportunities,childcare,etc. Finally, our goal is to help individuals and families obtain self sufficiency and necessary rights and tools needed to succeed in life. The community will be served with professional ethics, dignity, compassion, care, sensitivity, understanding and respect for the diverse social, economic,religious,ethnic and cultural backgrounds,disability and sexual orientation.

Services
  • information and referral
  • peer counseling
  • food distribution
  • financial benefit education
  • money management counseling
  • housing modifications
  • facilitation of accessibility to redi-wheels
  • public relations,administrative and funding activities

501(c)3 Tax Status: Yes



Contact Information

Primary Contact: Marta Florez
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Phone 650-631-4280
Last Updated ( Friday, 16 October 2009 )
 
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