Hispanic Center Of Western Michigan Inc

Programs: Language services - (served over 11,000 clients and organizations in 2017) offering professional development solutions for language training, accessibility, translation, and interpretation services for meeting the needs of individuals, the legal, medical, educational, business, public, safety, and social services community.

education programming - (served over 800 k-12 & ged students in 2017)offering bilingual preschool, la escuelita, to adult education and the only spanish ged program in the region. Provides college prep, leadership skills, workforce readiness, college prep for parents, connecting parents with schools, peer mentors and leaders, summer learning academy with local universities and paid internships are just a few examples of the many benefits of our programs: escalera (college prep/paid internships), project lift, (college prep), summer learning academies and workforce innovations and opportunities act (wioa) programs.

workforce development - (565 individuals and 200 employers served)offering workforce innovations and opportunities act (wioa) programs, vocational training (finance fields, health-care fields and skilled trades) and escalera (college prep, leadership skills, workforce readiness, paid internships through partner universities).

family support services - (served 1,152 clients & 762 immigration support services in 2017)offering domestic violence/sexual assault services, wellness, health, behavior/mental health and nutrition education, food pantry, tanf, medicaid and dhs referral coordination and services, we support a full range of basic needs for the most vulnerable in the hispanic/latino community. Immigration support services and partnership with the mexican consulate for passport, visa, consular densifications and dual citizenship services.