2014 casa annual report

The Power of People2014 Year in Review

Dear friends,Thirty years ago CASA de Maryland was begun by a group of volunteers in a church basement in Takoma Park, Maryland. A lot has changed in the past three decades, but one thing that has remained constant has been CASA’s commitment to justice for immigrant families.

CASA has been fighting for years to fix our broken immigration system. Sadly, some in the House of Representatives blocked a bill this past year which would have offered a pathway to citizenship for the majority of our country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants. With reform stalled in Congress, CASA has called on President Obama to use his existing legal authority to protect those in danger of being deported and separated from their families. We are hopeful that the President will take action soon to stop these needless deportations.

CASA has also continued to fight for justice locally. CASA and its allies pushed for legislation raising the minimum wage in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties, and at the state level. We launched a new parent engagement program to improve the educational and career prospects of immigrant children in Langley Park, and we completed our Promise Neighborhoods Planning process with the release of a report with the Urban Institute assessing the challenges and opportunities faced by Langley Park families. Our programs now span the spectrum of health, legal services, financial literacy, citizenship, schools and community engagement, community development, election advocacy, communications, workforce development, ESOL, and community organizing. This past year also saw the expansion of CASA into Virginia, and we plan to expand to serve immigrant communities in Delaware and Pennsylvania. As the organization grows, we have shortened our name from “CASA de Maryland” to simply “CASA.”

In February 2015 we will celebrate CASA’s 30th anniversary. It has been an honor to be a part of this family and this movement and to witness the change it has made in the lives of so many. With your support, CASA can continue to fight poverty, build strong communities, and win justice for decades to come.

In solidarity,

Gustavo Torres Executive Director

Maria Robalino President, Board of Directors

CASA de Maryland Board of Directors

Maria F. Robalino, President

Andrea LaRue, Vice-President

Carlos Olea, Treasurer

Priscilla Huang, Secretary

Jose Aguiluz

Joseph Eyong

Misael Garcia

Maria Guardado

Henry Hailstock

Sarah Harding

Rima Matsumoto

Sergio Munoz

Oscar Oporto

Grace Rivera-Oven

Linda Robinson

June White Dillard

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“CASA HAS SUCH CREDIBILITY IN THE

COMMUNITY AND THAT CREDIBILITY IS BORN

FROM THE REAL WORK THEY DO EVERY DAY.”

— David Bowers, Enterprise Community Partners

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Last Spring, after three separate incidents of racially-motivated violence between students at Digital Harbor High School in Baltimore, Maryland, the young people in CASA’s Mi Espacio after-school program decided to take action, organizing an art exhibition to promote peace and unity. Students also collaborated with a local artist and an African-American student group to create a mural which would adorn CASA’s Baltimore Center with a message of cultural diversity.

The Mi Espacio program is designed to boost confidence among Latino teens and help them achieve academic success. On a given day, teens in the Mi Espacio program may be working on homework, college applications, creating art, volunteering at a community garden, or taking part in a healthy dating workshop. Although most teens in the program face challenges, 100% of them are on track to graduate from high school, compared with the 58% of Latinos who will graduate in Baltimore City’s public schools.

When José Dominguez, a Mi Espacio student, graduated from high school last year, he was linked to a summer internship at Johns Hopkins University and enrolled in community college. José points to the Mi Espacio program as a big reason for his success, and despite a busy schedule, he makes time to mentor the newest group of Mi Espacio youth.

Mi Espacio is helping shape the next generation of leaders in Baltimore— leaders like José who will stand up for unity in their communities, so that all young people can pursue their dreams.

� NATIONWIDE, AN ESTIMATED 60% OF YOUTH OBTAINED A NEW

JOB AFTER RECEIVING DEFERRED ACTION, 45% INCREASED THEIR

EARNINGS, AND 21% OBTAINED AN INTERNSHIP

Shaping the Next Generation of LeadersCASA’s Mi Espacio Program

� CASA HELPED

OVER 1,900

DREAMER YOUTH

APPLY FOR LEGAL

STATUS THROUGH

THE FEDERAL

DEFERRED ACTION

FOR CHILDHOOD

ARRIVALS PROGRAM.


“ IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO MAKE CHANGES IN MY LIFE, BUT I ALWAYS HAD A HAND FROM SOMEONE I COULD COUNT ON AT CASA AND MI ESPACIO.”

— José Dominguez, 18


CASA’s Learning Together Program

Three Schools. Two Generations. One Goal.

This year CASA designed an integrated, place-based initiative to improve educational outcomes for Langley Park’s children and youth. Using a two-generation approach, Learning Together responds to key challenges faced by this community:

� Low-income immigrant students at Langley Park’s three elementary schools are performing at a comparable level to their peers at other schools, but a significant achievement gap opens up once students move on to middle school and high school.

� Many Langley Park parents are first-generation immigrants unfamiliar with the complexities of the U.S. educational system.

� Although 8 out of 10 Langley Park students are Latino, very few of their teachers share their cultural identity and even fewer are Spanish speakers, which can often create disconnect in the classroom.

The program design includes: community promoters who engage parents in the learning of their children; community events, designed to cultivate leadership and a sense of community among Langley Park parents; “Parents as

Teachers” classes that teach parents show to promote learning at home; and “Teacher-Parent Connections,” a summer institute and year-long program designed to draw from Langley Park cultural knowledge as a vehicle for further engaging students, parents, and teachers in academic learning. Learning Together places major importance on the role of parents —providing them with a wide range of skills key to supporting their children, such as how to read their child’s progress report or what goes into the common core standards. Parents also become an integral part of their children’s school lives by leading reading groups or overseeing a community garden.

In the program’s first several months, it engaged more than 300 residents in its inaugural community event, enrolled more than a hundred parents in the first session of Parents as Teachers, and brought teachers together for a weeklong summer institute designed to promote culturally-responsive teacher practices and opportunities for teachers to connect with the broader Langley Park community. Learning Together is supported by a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education.


� 58% OF EIGHTH GRADERS READ AT

GRADE LEVEL IN LANGLEY PARK, MD

� 81% OF EIGHTH GRADERS READ AT

GRADE LEVEL IN MARYLAND AS A WHOLE

58%LANGLEY PARK

81%MARYLAND


This Fight Is For Our Families

Catia Paz immigrated to the United States from El Salvador 17 years ago, leaving behind extreme violence and poverty. She had been living in the United States for a decade when she was stopped in 2011 by immigration authorities and issued an order of deportation. She faced the very real possibility of losing her two U.S. citizen daughters, her husband, and the life she had worked so hard to build.

Thanks to CASA’s legal staff’s perseverance and the hundreds of signatures gathered by supporters, Catia was able to overturn her deportation order for now. Millions of others’ stories, however, do not have happy endings. Countless families are separated by more than 1,000 deportations every day.

CASA remains dedicated to fighting for comprehensive immigration reform including a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living and working in the U.S. Over the past year, CASA has held dozens of direct actions, organized multiple massive rallies, participated in a hunger

strike on the National Mall, and led sit-ins and demonstrations at the offices of Congressmen Eric Cantor and Frank Wolf —two major opponents of reform. In October 2013, CASA organized the largest ever act of civil disobedience for immigrant rights. Protesters peacefully locked arms and refused to move from the gates of the Capitol building, leading to the arrests of over 200 people, including several Members of Congress.

Today, the fate of immigrant families across the country hangs in the balance as they await an inadequate and overdue promise of administrative relief by President Obama. Rest assured, whatever executive decisions are made, we will not stop until justice for the millions of men and women like Catia is secured.

CASA’s campaign for immigration reform


� RECRUITED AND TRAINED A TOTAL OF 500 ARRESTEES WHO

PARTICIPATED IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM IN

MULTIPLE ACTIONS AT THE U.S. CAPITOL AND THE WHITE HOUSE.

� ORGANIZED A MAJOR DIRECT ACTION SHUTTING DOWN 156 CONGRESSIONAL

OFFICES SIMULTANEOUSLY TO PROTEST INACTION ON IMMIGRATION REFORM.


� THE LATINO POPULATION IN VIRGINIA HAS DOUBLED IN THE PAST

15 YEARS, AND IS NOW LARGER THAN THAT OF D.C. OR MARYLAND5

� CASA LAUNCHED

ITS WORK IN

VIRGINIA IN 2013.

ALREADY, MORE

THAN 2,500

PEOPLE HAVE

ENROLLED AS

MEMBERS OF CASA

DE VIRGINIA

A New State and a Big Statement

Announcing CASA de VirginiaFor more than a decade, the Latino and immigrant community has been growing in Virginia. From 2000-2010, the number of immigrants living in Virginia grew by over 60%. That means that today Virginia’s immigrant community is larger than that of Washington, D.C. or Maryland. In fact, immigrants represent over 15% of the state’s total workforce.

To respond to the needs of the growing but underserved immigrant community in the state, CASA de Virginia was launched in February 2013. Since its founding a little more than a year ago, CASA de Virginia has developed 120 strong leaders representing 12 cities. It has built a Virginia membership base of more than 2,500. Over the past year CASA de Virginia has been busy hosting major leadership meetings, providing services including citizenship and naturalization assistance, legal services, health and safety classes, and leadership development trainings.

We know, however, that for real change to occur for Virginia’s immigrant community, we must help bring about systemic changes in the state through organizing. That’s why in the coming year, CASA de Virginia members will be pushing for a platform that includes neighborhood safety, protections against wage theft, affordable housing, and increased access to state programs.

We’re not stopping there though. Plans are now in the works to expand CASA’s services and advocacy to Pennsylvania and Delaware, two other states with growing and underserved immigrant communities.


“ WHEN CASA SAYS THEY’RE GOING TO SHOW UP, THEY DON’T JUST SHOW UP WITH ONE. THEY SHOW UP WITH HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. THEY MEAN BUSINESS.”

— Jaime Contreras, 32BJ SEIU


Good Health Means Great Possibilities CASA one of top Maryland health navigator organizations

Andrea is a 29-year old mother of two, originally from Colombia but now living in Rockville, Maryland. She says she and her family are generally healthy but worries that when they do get sick, they “only have the option to go to the emergency room, which is very expensive.” That’s a common sentiment among Latino and immigrant families, who are often uninsured.

Thanks to the landmark Affordable Care Act (sometimes known as “Obamacare”) thousands of immigrant families now have access to health insurance for the first time. In Maryland’s 6-month enrollment period, CASA’s team of 13 navigators enrolled more than 2,000 people in either low-cost private plans through the Maryland Health Benefits Exchange or public assistance plans like Medicaid. CASA was one of the top nonprofit navigator organizations in the state, in terms of numbers enrolled.

This achievement follows many years of promoting health in the immigrant community. CASA operates a telephone hotline in Spanish, French, and English to link callers—more than 25,000 in the past 7 years—to affordable health services. CASA is on the ground too, with a dedicated team of volunteer health promoters—or promotoras—speaking daily with immigrants about their health and well-being. Last year, they educated 10,000 immigrants about the importance of getting tested for HIV, screening for breast cancer, or signing up for health insurance.


� ONE-THIRD OF LATINOS

IN MARYLAND ARE WITHOUT HEALTH

INSURANCE

� 2,209 LATINOS AND IMMIGRANTS

WERE ENROLLED IN AN AFFORDABLE

HEALTH PLAN BY CASA IN 2014


� 600

PERMANENT RESIDENT IMMIGRANTS

BECAME U.S. CITIZENS WITH CASA’S HELP


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FoundationBazar La ChiquitaBozzuto & Associates, Inc.Capital OneCITGO Petroleum CorporationCiti Community Development Citi Foundation ComcastDanya International, Inc.DHE CorporationThe Donaldson Group LLCDoyle Printing & Offset

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FOUNDATIONSAbell FoundationAscend at the Aspen InstituteChesapeake Bay TrustCommunity Foundation for

Montgomery CountyConsumer Health FoundationCrossCurrents FoundationEugene and Agnes E. Meyer

FoundationFord FoundationFradian FoundationFund for ChangeHarry and Jeanette Weinberg

FoundationHill-Snowdon FoundationMaryland Legal Services

CorporationMCAEL - Montgomery

Coalition for Adult English Literacy

Moriah FundMorris and Gwendolyn Cafritz

FoundationMorton K. and Jane Blaustein

FoundationOpen Society Institute -

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Thalheimer FoundationThe Annie E. Casey

FoundationThe Community Foundation

for the National Capital Region

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Capital AreaUnited Way Prince George'sWashington Area Women's

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Fund

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Housing and Community Development

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Labor Licensing and Regulation

Maryland Governor and General Assembly

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Montgomery County Executive and County Council

Prince George's County Department of Housing and Community Development

Prince George's County Executive and County Council

U.S. Department of Education

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Council, Inc.Center for Community

ChangeCenter for Popular

DemocracyCommunication Workers of

AmericaCommunity Clinic, Inc.Enterprise Community

Partners, Inc.Hispanic Bar Association of

the District of Columbia Foundation

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GroupMobile Medical Care, Inc. Montgomery CollegeNational Council of La Raza

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Organizing NetworkNational Domestic Workers

AllianceNational Hispanic Council

on AgingNational Partnership for

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CouncilUnited Food & Commercial

Workers International Union

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SaviorLutheran Church of the

ReformationSisters of Mercy of the

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and April McClain-Delaney Andrea LaRue and

Matthew Schwartz Robert A. Welp and

Carmel M. Martin Eduardo and Michelle Zavala

$1,000 to $4,999Daniel Altschuler

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Robert Wolinsky Virginia Geoffrey and

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Elizabeth A. Smigel

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Donor Profile: Kit Gage and Steve Metalitz

Kit Gage and her husband Steve Metalitz have been strong supporters of CASA for more than 20 years. As a member of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission, Kit became intimately aware of the terrible violence that was taking place in Central America in the 1980s, and she was moved by the work CASA was doing to provide services for the newly-arrived refugee community in the Washington DC-area. Kit and Steve give to to CASA because they find it to be a “welcoming place” for all immigrants and Latinos. Kit now serves on CASA’s workforce advisory committee, which provides guidance to our staff in attracting new employers to our Welcome Centers. She has also volunteered her time teaching storm water planting — a technique to beautify cities and prevent runoff — to workers at CASA’s centers.

In memory of our dear friend, Dr. Inés Cifuentes

In December 2013, CASA lost one of its most committed advocates, Dr. Inés Cifuentes, who also served as President of CASA’s Board of Directors from 2007 to 2009. Inés was a scientist, educator, activist, and community leader. During her time as Board President, Inés promoted educational programs for our community and played a key role in the development of our strategic plan. She also

fought for passage of the Maryland DREAM Act in Annapolis, which was eventually approved by voters in 2012. Inés was a leader who showed humility, dedication, and selfless commitment to the welfare of workers, women, and young Latinos. She will be sorely missed. In her honor, we are dedicating the library in our Multicultural Center as the “Biblioteca Inés Lucía Cifuentes.

�600

LATINOS AND

IMMIGRANTS FILED

A TAX RETURN WITH

CASA’S ASSISTANCE

� CASA’S TAX

ASSISTANCE LED TO

$500,000 RECEIVED IN TAX

REFUNDS FOR

COMMUNITY

MEMBERS


Financials CASA de Maryland, Inc. Financial Statements for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2014

Support and Revenue

Contracts 39%

Grants and Contributions

44% Tuition and Fees 8%

In-Kind Contributions 3%Interest and Other Income 2%

Expenses

Support Services 23%

Total Program Costs 77%

Statement of Activities

SUPPORT AND REVENUEContracts $3,349,841

Grants and contributions $3,777,930

Tuition and fees $648,245

In-kind contributions $592,224

Interest and other income $155,988

Total Support and Revenue $8,524,228

EXPENSESTotal program costs $6,419,562

Support services $1,954,615

Total expenses $8,374,177

Change in Net Assets $150,051

Net Assets At Beginning of Year $11,943,689

Net Assets At End of Year $12,093,740

Statement of Financial Postion

ASSETSCash and cash equivalents $2,108,609

Due from affiliates $777,870

Investments in affiliates $1,443,074

Contracts receivable $616,784

Other receivables and prepaid expenses $20,104

Certificates of deposit – restricted $556,785

Grants receivable, net $1,368,500

Note receivable* $5,438,423

Property and equipment, net $771,031

Total Assets $13,101,180

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

LiabilitiesAccounts payable and accrued expenses $672,306

Due to affiliates $117,908

Deferred revenue $158,484

Legal office escrow $58,742

Total Liabilities $1,007,440

Net AssetsUnrestricted $8,818,993

Board designated net assets $1,427,883

Temporarily restricted $1,846,864

Total Net Assets $12,093,740

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $13,101,180

Note: Request copies of audited financial statements by writing to: [email protected].

� 1,200 IMMIGRANTS OPENED

NEW BANK ACCOUNTS THROUGH CASA

*Assets related to the financing of the Multicultural Center renovations.

**Preliminary audited statements. Subject to final approval by CASA’s Board of Directors.


CASA StaffExecutive Direction Gustavo Torres, Executive Director Rodrigo Guevara, Executive Assistant

Administration Samuel Achimbi, Maintenance

Specialist Jenny Arevalo, Maintenance Specialist José García, IT Manager Amilcar Guzman, Senior Manager

of Data & Evaluation Virginia Kase, Chief Operations Officer Rocío Llera, Volunteer & Human

Resources Coordinator Silvia Navas, Site Manager Deisi Pereira, Manager of Membership

Engagement & Innovation Sandra Restrepo, Maintenance

Specialist Jimmy Villarroel, IT Specialist

Schools & Community Engagement Jamila Ball, Senior Manager of

Learning Together Tehani Collazo, Senior Director of

Schools & Community Engagement Irene Jallo, Learning Together

Coordinator Drew Kochman, Learning Together

Engagement Specialist Lidia Rivas, Learning Together

Engagement Specialist Jhosse Rivera, Learning Together

Engagement Specialist Angelo Rivero, Leadership Academy

Director Maritza Solano, Community Schools

Manager

Centers & Education Delia Aguilar, Manager of Centers

and Workforce Development Richard Benjumea, Employment

Specialist Yecenia Castillo, ESOL Program

Coordinator Alma Couverthie, Director of Centers

& Education Hellen Dominguez, Pine Ridge

Coordinator Candelaria Flores, Community Liaison Fernando Garavito, Senior Manager

of Employment & Centers Victor Garcia, Employment Specialist

/ Community Liaison Miguel Gonzalez, Employment

Specialist / Community Liaison Myrna Hernandez, Community Liaison Carlos Martinez, Community Liaison Carlos Monti, Employment Specialist Marisa Moschelle, Employment

Specialist Frederic Ngongang, Employment

Specialist Jacinta Niño, Vocational Training

Coordinator

Shaka Pack, Interim Manager of Community Education

Ana Perla, Community Liaison Michael Petrick, Workforce

Development Specialist German Reyes, Employment

Specialist Shannon Wilk de Benitez, ESOL

Program Coordinator

CASA de Virginia Lindolfo Carballo, Lead Organizer Ana Gonzalez, Community Organizer Wendy Jimenez, Community

Organizer Eduardo Zelaya, Community Organizer

Health & Human Services Marcela Alvarado, Member Services

Coordinator Alma Archila, Member Services

Paralegal Pablo Blank, Immigrant Integration

Program Manager Ricardo Campos, Social Services

Coordinator Francisco Cartagena, Financial

Education Specialist Elizabeth Clark, Legal Program

Assistant George Escobar, Director of Health

& Human Services Leidi García, Community Access

& Health Information Specialist Molly Gavin, Citizenship Services

Coordinator Jennifer Jurney, Staff Attorney Michelle LaRue, Senior Manager

of Health & Social Services Sarah Martinez, Staff Attorney Norma Martinez, Community

Outreach Coordinator Juan Carlos Navarrete, Citizenship

Services Coordinator José Osejo, Member Services

Information Specialist Herman Perez, Community Access

& Health Information Specialist Abdel Piedramartel, Financial

Education Specialist Mirna Roca, Member Services Paralegal Consuelo Santillana, Social Service

Specialist Floater Sheena Wadhawan, Legal Program

Manager

Community Organizing Elizabeth Alex, Lead Organizer Oscar Alfaro, Community Organizer Gustavo Andrade, Director of

Community Organizing Robert Asprilla, Lead Organizer

Ashwini Jaisingh, Lead Organizer Trent Leon Lierman, Community

Organizer Ana Martínez, Community Organizer Mario Menendez, Community

Organizer Otoniel Paz, Community Organizer Antonia Peña, Community Organizer Andrew Reinel, Community Organizer Karen Salmeron, Program Assistant Rommel Sandino, Community

Organizer Lydia Walther-Rodriguez,

Community Organizer Morena Zelaya, Community Organizer

Development & Finance Robert D’Amato, Development Officer Jennifer Freedman, Senior Director

of Development & Finance Jacqueline Manning, Grant Writer /

Coordinator Adwoa Spencer, Senior Manager for

DevelopmentPeha Djoko, Assistant Controller Victor Otero, Staff Accountant Ruby Pardo, Payroll & Business

Manager Victor Rodríguez, Contract Invoice

Specialist

Politics & CommunicationsSusana Flores, Communications

Manager Yaheiry Galan, Advocacy & Elections

Specialist Renato Mendoza, Advocacy Specialist Zorayda Moreira-Smith Senior,

Manager of Place-Based Initiatives & Community Development

Julio Murillo-Khadjibaeva, Policy Analyst

Kimberley Propeack, Senior Director of Politics & Communications

María José Sandoval, Communications Specialist

Máté Vládar, Media Specialist

Teachers Ayad Abdul-Jabbar, ESOL Teacher Ludette Agura, ESOL Teacher Cassandra Alles, ESOL Teacher Edwin Alvarado, ESOL Teacher Fatima Alvarez, Childcare Provider José Benítez, ESOL Teacher Emily Boulin, ESOL Teacher Marek Cabrera, ESOL Teacher Maria Cartagena, Spanish Literacy

Teracher Alva Cativo, Childcare Provider Rebecca Cusic, ESOL Teacher Elliot Eig, ESOL Teacher Enrique Garcia, ESOL Teacher Josrique Garcia, ESOL Teacher Barbara Gibbs, ESOL Teacher Kathleen Indart Whitman,

ESOL Teacher Noah Kim, ESOL Teacher Sarah Lane, ESOL Teacher Ratna Maharjan, ESOL Teacher Maureen Malloy, ESOL Teacher Karla Martinez, Citizenship Teacher Edwin Mejia, ESOL Teacher Leslie Miller, ESOL Teacher Jose Ortega, ESOL Teacher Patricia Parra-Moreno, ESOL Teacher Sean Peterkin, ESOL Teacher Jasmine Rose, ESOL Teacher Yelena Smolianski, ESOL Teacher Cynthia Steer, ESOL Teacher Andrea Willis, Substitute

ESOL Teacher

Americorps Lourdes Camacho-Mayo Gladis De Leon Earvin Gonzalez Martha Guzman Rosa Hernandez Diana Martinez Merlise Mba Edwin Mejia Veronica Montalvo-Rosario Wendy Velasquez

� $3.1 MILLION PUT IN THE POCKETS OF LOW-WAGE WORKERS THROUGH CASA’S WELCOME CENTERS

$10.00 per hour

$13.42 per hour

NATIONWIDE AVERAGE FOR DAY LABORERS

AVERAGE EARNED BY WORKERS AT CASA'S CENTERS


� OVER TWO-THIRDS OF ALL LOW-WAGE WORKERS

IN THE U.S. EXPERIENCE WAGE THEFT ON A REGULAR BASIS2

� OVER $115,000 IN STOLEN WAGES WAS RECOVERED

THIS YEAR BY CASA’S LEGAL TEAM FOR LOW-WAGE WORKERS

� CASA, WITH PARTNERS LIKE THE NAACP, SUCCESSFULLY

ADVOCATED FOR AN INCREASE IN MARYLAND’S MINIMUM WAGE

BY $2.85 IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. THAT WILL MAKE

MARYLAND’S MINIMUM THE 4TH HIGHEST IN THE NATION.

$7.25

Current

$8.25

2015

$10.10

2018

$9.25

2017

$8.75

2016


CASA LocationsCASA de Maryland Multicultural Center at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building 8151 15th Avenue, Langley Park, MD 20783Fax: 301-270-8659

CASA de Virginia901 S. Highland Street, 3rd Floor, Arlington, VA 22204

Silver Spring Welcome Center734 University Boulevard, East, Silver Spring, MD 20903Fax: 301-431-4179

Prince George’s Welcome Center7978-B New Hampshire Avenue, Langley Park, MD 20783Fax: 301-431-1026

Wheaton Welcome Center2729 University Boulevard, West, Wheaton, MD 20902Fax: 301-933-6690

Baltimore Welcome Center2224 East Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21231Fax: 410-732-2692

Shady Grove Welcome Center16642 Crabbs Branch Way, Rockville, MD 20855Fax: 301-926-0380

CASA Community Center at Pine Ridge8615 Piney Branch Road, Silver Spring, MD 20901Fax: 301-445-3921

Bilingual Health and Social Services HotlineTel: 301-270-8432

� CASA’S CENTERS PROVIDED JOB TRAINING TO OVER 1,200 PEOPLE IN CONSTRUCTION,

MAINTENANCE, SECURITY, CHILDCARE, COMPUTER REPAIR, AND MANY OTHER TRADES

VIRGINIA

D.C.

MARYLAND

Baltimore

Langley Park

Silver SpringWheaton

Rockville

Arlington

SourcesKaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, April 2013

Annette Bernhardt et al., Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America’s Cities, 2009

Immigration Policy Center, Two Years and Counting: Assessing the Growing Power of DACA, 2014

Madeleine Sumption and Sarah Flamm, The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States, September 2012

US Census Bureau, 2013

Design by Robyn Bernstein

Photos by Valeria Monfrini, Rick Reinhard, María José Sandoval, Máté Vládar

© CASA de Maryland, Inc., 2014


For more information about CASA or to request additional copies of this report, contact (240) 491-5788 or [email protected].

To donate to CASA please visit our website: www.casademaryland.org

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8151 15th Avenue Langley Park, MD 20783

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2014 casa annual report

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