Centro Hispano has programs and services in 15 buildings and at three (3) partnering non profits that offer Early Head Start and Regular Head Start. The organization has grown significantly since its early days in 1964, when only one building provided all services. Head Start, the largest of its programs, now offers services in seven locations in the city. The organization’s administration building is located on 614 W. National Ave. More on this facility is provided below.
Over the years, Centro Hispano acquired a building on 3rd and Washington Ave in Milwaukee, now referred to as Guadalupe South. It has one of the organization’s best known bilingual Head Start program which this past year serve as the pilot for our Dual Language Bilingual Enrichment Program –which is now being implemented in all of our Head Start centers in the city of Milwaukee.
Another campus comprised of four (4) buildings is located on 36th and Mitchell streets. The location was renamed in 2009 as the Dr. Filiberto and Carmen Murguía Campus. One building is dedicated to Head Start and its administration; another is a large Head Start center and an alternative high school; another building is a large Resource Center, and provides offices for the Early Head Start administration; and another is Casa Catalina, an elderly housing building subsidized by HUD. The largest building in the campus has a very large cafeteria that serves as a meeting spot for Head Start staff and parents, and for community meetings and events.
Including Casa Catalina, Centro Hispano also offers elderly and disabled housing in six (6) buildings, and some bilingual wraparound services. Four buildings are located in Milwaukee’s near south side; one in the southwest side of the city; and another in the Westside.
In June of 2006, Centro Hispano bought all the assets of the Aurora Weier Educational Center (AWEC), an agency located in the Riverwest, northeast side of the city, serving mostly residents of zip code 53212. AWEC serves a racially integrated area, and has the highest concentration of Latinos outside of the south side –approximately 10%, according the U.S. Census. African American and Latino residents of the area are more educationally, socially and economically challenged than in zip codes in the south side of the city. The AWEC facility is now another Head Start location known as Guadalupe Head Start north. It also offers other youth services in partnership with Project Ujima (Children’s Hospital), and the building and Gym are available to groups of residents in the area. It has a rental agreement with Children’s Hospital’s Project Ujima and another with Sprint.
In early December of 2007 Centro Hispano acquired the Hillview Building on 1615 S. 22nd Street. The facility is valued at $2.2 million dollars and was donated, anonymously, to expand educational, housing and social services at that location --which has the highest ratio of Latinos in the City. Later in this analysis, there is a specific delineation of partnerships and programs and services offered at this location.
At the end of December of 2007, Centro Hispano acquired the two buildings on the corner of 6th and National. Unfortunately, in June 2008 one of the buildings collapsed under heavy rain, and Centro Hispano has not been able to raise the funds to engage in a renovation of the lot. The organization is currently selling the location to others interested in helping to turn the corner of 6th and National into an engine of economic development for the area.
Over the years, the organization has engaged in a vast program of partnering with other community-based non profits in the Milwaukee area, and organizations that complement its services and programs to the Latino community. In particular, it provides space in its facilities for nonprofit organizations that are still evolving, and which are very promising.
At its administration building on 6th and National, Centro Hispano provides space for Centro Legal (another legal services program for the indigent); the Latino Entrepreneur Network (the most quickly rising center for the development of Latino small businesses); The Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee (the fastest growing organization of Latino professionals in the state); The Latino Community Center (an organization that engages in youth anti-violence interventions in the schools); Wisconsin Voices (which promotes Latino civic and electoral engagement); the Lula Project (which conducts research on Latinas); and MiVoz (the most significant Latino online service and marketing program in Milwaukee).
At its Hillview building on 22nd Street and Mitchell, Centro Hispano provides space for a transitional housing program offer by Community Advocates; space for Alianza Latina (over 400 Latino families with disabled children are assisted and well over 40 annual group training of parents in disability issues); the Latino Soccer League (well over 800 families served); the Milwaukee Latino Health Coalition (which holds annually numerous health education sessions and strategy meetings); Marquette’s Legal Clinic (which bring to our building more than 20 senior law students and some eight to 10 attorneys and faculty, and provide free legal services to residents once a week); and Friedens Community Ministries Emergency Food Pantry (over 16,000 impacted in 2011). Courses have and are currently offered at this facility by Marquette University, UW-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Area Technical College, and Cardinal Stretch University. The building has a very large and technology equipped community room used by partnering organizations, a Latino soccer league, and the community.
At its Aurora Weier Center (AWEC) in Milwaukee’s northeast side, Centro Hispano offers a Head Start program. Project Ujima of the Children’s Center rents space for its anti-violence youth programs; and Africans on the Move hold meetings and classes in the facility. Head Start and the community of this area also use the AWEC gym for meetings and conferences.
Contact: Luis “Tony” Báez, PhD
Executive Director
Centro Hispano Milwaukee
614 W. National Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Web: www.spanishcenter-milw.org
Tel.: 414-384-3700
Over the years, Centro Hispano acquired a building on 3rd and Washington Ave in Milwaukee, now referred to as Guadalupe South. It has one of the organization’s best known bilingual Head Start program which this past year serve as the pilot for our Dual Language Bilingual Enrichment Program –which is now being implemented in all of our Head Start centers in the city of Milwaukee.
Another campus comprised of four (4) buildings is located on 36th and Mitchell streets. The location was renamed in 2009 as the Dr. Filiberto and Carmen Murguía Campus. One building is dedicated to Head Start and its administration; another is a large Head Start center and an alternative high school; another building is a large Resource Center, and provides offices for the Early Head Start administration; and another is Casa Catalina, an elderly housing building subsidized by HUD. The largest building in the campus has a very large cafeteria that serves as a meeting spot for Head Start staff and parents, and for community meetings and events.
Including Casa Catalina, Centro Hispano also offers elderly and disabled housing in six (6) buildings, and some bilingual wraparound services. Four buildings are located in Milwaukee’s near south side; one in the southwest side of the city; and another in the Westside.
In June of 2006, Centro Hispano bought all the assets of the Aurora Weier Educational Center (AWEC), an agency located in the Riverwest, northeast side of the city, serving mostly residents of zip code 53212. AWEC serves a racially integrated area, and has the highest concentration of Latinos outside of the south side –approximately 10%, according the U.S. Census. African American and Latino residents of the area are more educationally, socially and economically challenged than in zip codes in the south side of the city. The AWEC facility is now another Head Start location known as Guadalupe Head Start north. It also offers other youth services in partnership with Project Ujima (Children’s Hospital), and the building and Gym are available to groups of residents in the area. It has a rental agreement with Children’s Hospital’s Project Ujima and another with Sprint.
In early December of 2007 Centro Hispano acquired the Hillview Building on 1615 S. 22nd Street. The facility is valued at $2.2 million dollars and was donated, anonymously, to expand educational, housing and social services at that location --which has the highest ratio of Latinos in the City. Later in this analysis, there is a specific delineation of partnerships and programs and services offered at this location.
At the end of December of 2007, Centro Hispano acquired the two buildings on the corner of 6th and National. Unfortunately, in June 2008 one of the buildings collapsed under heavy rain, and Centro Hispano has not been able to raise the funds to engage in a renovation of the lot. The organization is currently selling the location to others interested in helping to turn the corner of 6th and National into an engine of economic development for the area.
Over the years, the organization has engaged in a vast program of partnering with other community-based non profits in the Milwaukee area, and organizations that complement its services and programs to the Latino community. In particular, it provides space in its facilities for nonprofit organizations that are still evolving, and which are very promising.
At its administration building on 6th and National, Centro Hispano provides space for Centro Legal (another legal services program for the indigent); the Latino Entrepreneur Network (the most quickly rising center for the development of Latino small businesses); The Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee (the fastest growing organization of Latino professionals in the state); The Latino Community Center (an organization that engages in youth anti-violence interventions in the schools); Wisconsin Voices (which promotes Latino civic and electoral engagement); the Lula Project (which conducts research on Latinas); and MiVoz (the most significant Latino online service and marketing program in Milwaukee).
At its Hillview building on 22nd Street and Mitchell, Centro Hispano provides space for a transitional housing program offer by Community Advocates; space for Alianza Latina (over 400 Latino families with disabled children are assisted and well over 40 annual group training of parents in disability issues); the Latino Soccer League (well over 800 families served); the Milwaukee Latino Health Coalition (which holds annually numerous health education sessions and strategy meetings); Marquette’s Legal Clinic (which bring to our building more than 20 senior law students and some eight to 10 attorneys and faculty, and provide free legal services to residents once a week); and Friedens Community Ministries Emergency Food Pantry (over 16,000 impacted in 2011). Courses have and are currently offered at this facility by Marquette University, UW-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Area Technical College, and Cardinal Stretch University. The building has a very large and technology equipped community room used by partnering organizations, a Latino soccer league, and the community.
At its Aurora Weier Center (AWEC) in Milwaukee’s northeast side, Centro Hispano offers a Head Start program. Project Ujima of the Children’s Center rents space for its anti-violence youth programs; and Africans on the Move hold meetings and classes in the facility. Head Start and the community of this area also use the AWEC gym for meetings and conferences.
Contact: Luis “Tony” Báez, PhD
Executive Director
Centro Hispano Milwaukee
614 W. National Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Web: www.spanishcenter-milw.org
Tel.: 414-384-3700