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Casa Latina is awarded grant to close gap on health disparities among Latinos

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

This September Casa Latina was awarded a two year grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Foundation to fund the “Bridges to Latino Health/Puentes a la Salud Latina.” project.  After completing a needs assessment phase called “Closing the Gap on ...

Ricardo Barrientos

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in News | Comments Off

It is with great sadness that we must report that one of Casa's former directors, Ricardo Barrientos, passed away this week. As the Gazette reported:He was a longtime educator in the Northampton school system and later in Springfield. He was ...

2007 Reencuentro

Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Events, News | Comments Off

At the 2007 Reencuentro, we honored local politicians and long-time board members in addition to our normal reencuentro activities of updating and getting feedback from the Hampshire County Latino community. The Gazette reported:The guests of honor were the politicians who ...

Casa Latina Receives Grant from Inaugural Fund

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 Posted in News | Comments Off

Casa Latina was one of the local recipients of a one-time grant from the Gov. Patrick Inaugural fund. The Gazette reported: The nonprofits were among 215 in the state to benefit last week from the Patrick-Murray Inaugural Committee Charitable Giving Program. The ...