Empowering Our Community

Supporting Youth and Young Adults

Through multiple programs, Emerging Unidos seeks to assist underserved and marginalized young people reach their definition of success.

Professional development, life skill building, mentoring, counseling, resource connection, support for furthering education, and much more make up the core of our programming.

Empoderarnos

We serve farmworkers through culturally sustaining, empowering resource distributions, internships, and other forms of support.

Idea Academia

A youth-led program providing life skill and educational workshops and cultural/identity exploration through SEL.

Multilingual Youth Certification

Proving Bilingual Literacy certifications, language courses, and work experience for youth.

Mentoring and Community Building

We provide mentoring for our QTPOC youth while building community around youth, their families, and those that are underserved within the community. We have found that the most comprehensive and sustainable service we can provide is through connecting to each other, building trust, and utilizing our resources as both an organization and people to better serve our community.

Job Exploration and Life Skill Development

Through community partnerships we are able to offer workshops and support centered around educational obtainment and financial assistance, employability skill development, life skills, cultural/identity exploration, and more. These workshops are currently offered to our youth through Idea Academia.

Resource Distributions and Cultural Sustainability

We make the intensive effort to provide requested resources to our community of QTPOC, Latine/o/a/x young people, families, and farmworkers in a culturally sustaining form. We supply tangible items such as clothing, hygiene products, food, etc. and connections to local resources such as OHP and SNAP sign ups, dental care, etc. We know first hand that the bare minimum is often given in a way that doesn’t serve the core of our communities. We seek to always provide culturally appropriate resources that encourage cultural sustainability.

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Partnerships

Partnerships with community business and organizations are essential to our programming. They enable us to provide diverse resources and employment opportunities for job training that would otherwise be impossible. We fully believe in working with our community to make our programming the best it can be.

We are currently on the search for more partners, so if you feel like your business or organization would be a good fit, please reach out!

Partners

  • United Way- Good 360

  • Rainbow Youth

  • OSU Extension Services and 4H - Marion County

  • Salem-Keizer Area SOGIE Network

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Every dollar goes to our programs. We appreciate any amount you can give.

Thank you so much for your support!