Program areas at Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
The inland empire immigrant youth collective (ieiyc) was peoc's fiscally sponsored project for many years. Founded in 2010, ieiyc creates a safe space for immigrant youth to express themselves and achieve their full potential and identity, which intersects with being undocumented. Through grassroots organizing, their mission is to engage youth to gain equal access to higher education and professional development and to seek justice for the immigrant community by empowering those most impacted by unjust policies.
Our immigrant rights department engages in affordable immigration legal services, know-your-rights presentations, outreach and education, coalition building, and campaigns that aim to directly improve living conditions for the working-class immigrant community in Pomona and the inland empire (riverside and san bernardino counties).
Our worker rights department engages our membership of day laborers, domestic workers, and other low-wage immigrant workers in our various programming, including workforce and job development, know your rights presentations, outreach and education, wage theft support, worker/employer mediation, as well as leadership development through advocacy, civic engagement, and coalition building as part of campaigns that aim to directly better living conditions for the working class immigrant community. The department is divided into three (3) subprograms: the day labor program (dlp), the household worker program, and the health and safety program.
The housing justice department engages in education and outreach, tenant navigation, eviction defense, tenant organizing, and leadership development, as well as policy advocacy and campaigns that push for improving housing justice-related policy in Pomona and the inland empire, conserving current housing stock by retrofitting and bringing it up to standards, and building more affordable housing.
The community building department was created to centralize and operationalize our internal and external efforts, which include community outreach, annual cultural and community events, resource coordination, and media/communications.