Centro de Apoyo Familiar

Through its services and programs Centro de Apoyo Familiar reached and impacted over 25,000 low to moderate-income families during 2022. Specifically, through the programs and services listed below:housing and asset building services:- caf impacted over 10,000 families through a number of housing and asset building services and information provided in the area of financial counseling and education, foreclosure prevention and mitigation, pre-purchase conseling, rental counseling, credit counseling programs targeting low-to moderate-income hispanic and immigrant families.caf's 2022 housing and asset building accomplishments include:- served over 10,000 families in the state of Maryland, Virginia and Massachusetts through caf's first time homebuyer, financial literacy, rental and foreclosure prevention program.- provided educational workshop to over 4000 families in asset building programs; financial management, homeownership, foreclosure prevention and credit rebuilding.- assisted over 1000 homeowners avoid foreclosure and apply for housing fund assistance programs.- conducted 72 financial literacy workshops and impacted over 8500 families on financial education and credit restoration.- provided one-on-one pre-purchase counseling to over 1500 familiescommunity transformation event:caf facilitated over 100 community transformation events assisting over 10000 families on food distribution. Families were also connected to several commnuty resources such as jobs, pro-bono attorney, shelters and much more. In 2022 caf celebrated viva cultura event where over 4,000 people attended and over 75 exhibitors particpated.nueva esperanza/new hope" bilingual elderly program caf helped to prevent isolation, depression and improvement of the quality of life to over 250 elders and provided 48 virtual workshops to over 20 elders in the city of lawrence, massachusetts.caf's capacitiy building program and its connectors network caf was able to connect over 400 faith based organizations to a number of resources as well as conducted covid 19 fairs in the community through our connector's network. Caf also trained over 150 promoters "community workers" develop training skills on a number of topics.healthy families programs helped to empower over 3,500 families by providing emotional, social and educational support to improve their quality of life in the areas of enviromental health, and healthy relationships.caf worksforce development program provided outreach and program development for the implementation of caf's worforce program including esl classes, cdl and job readiness.