Neighbors' Consejo
WISH LIST: $100: fills our tanks with gas for two weeks of outreach to DC's homeless; $500: buys half the literacy supplies for our ESL program; $1000: provides a month of job counseling for 10 Latino immigrants
Starting with one outreach worker and a single desk in a church basement, Neighbors’ Consejo (“consejo” means advice or counsel) has grown into a multicultural agency that works to prevent homelessness in the low-income community and among substance abusers and those diagnosed with mental illness. Knowing that one size never fits all, Neighbors' Consejo offers a "continuum of care" model that includes case management, outpatient and after care, as well as classes in English as a Second Language (ESL), computer literacy, and job skills and "workforce" training. Housing and employment assistance are also part of the agenda. This year alone, workshops in English literacy permitted 70 men and women to complete language training; new job skills meant employment for some 250 people; and more than 300 were placed in educational or vocational training. Now located in its own building, the organization is poised to continue its work – but demand has doubled, and resources have certainly not. Neighbors’ Consejo sends confident adults back into the community – with skills, clarity of purpose, and optimism. Let’s help them continue to do just that.
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