2004 Community Partnership Awards
CIS Gang Youth Tutor/Mentoring Project
| Awardee: | Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles |
| Partner: | Prof. Abel Valenzuela, Cesar Chavez Center for Chicana/o
Studies |
Abstract:
The Workers Rights Project Documentation and Development Program will allow the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) to take action on the following items:
1. Provide additional workshops/trainings to two incredibly exploited
populations of low-income immigrant workers, day laborers and household
workers. Each project will provide one workshop per month, for a total
of 24 workshops throughout the year. Workshops will cover issues such as
workers rights, access to health care, workplace safety, wage and hour
law, IRS and tax filing, wage claims and referrals to legal assistance,
tenant rights, and immigration law.
2. Hire a part-time technical consultant to create a database for the Workers
Rights Project that would allow information about the projects to be better
stored, categorized and analyzed. This database would include information
about worker demographics; services provided to the WRP including workshops
and wage claim assistance; daily, weekly, and monthly job center usage;
worker and employer activity at the DLP sites; community outreach activities;
and any media coverage regarding the WRP.
