Latin American Association

About Latin American Association

The Latin American Association is a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive transitional services for Latinos as they strive for self-sufficiency and an enhanced quality of life. By responding to our community’s basic needs, we help its members gain knowledge and skills necessary to fully participate in the larger community. Since its inception, the Latin American Association has been meeting needs and building futures by providing programs and services that make a difference in the lives of Latinos in their families, neighborhoods and the larger community. The Latin American Association takes an integrated approach to providing services and programs that are focused on increasing family stability, building skills, promoting the development of our youth, and promoting community involvement. Outreach Centers More recently, LAA has developed a model to deepen its outreach in the Latino community. This is the concept of our Outreach Centers. Working closely with the property managers of these four centers, all running in apartment complexes in Cobb and Gwinnett counties, the LAA has been able to leverage its relationships with the business community and solidify program partnerships for the benefit of the Latino community. This year, the Latin American Association entered a partnership with Plaza Fiesta shopping center on Buford Highway in an effort to further reach out to the community, by using it as a fifth outreach center on weekends when the mall is bustling with visitors of all ages. The services of the LAA are developed in response to the Latino community’s needs and include: English language/literacy instruction, citizenship and other immigration assistance, pre-employment skills training and job-placement, a youth mentoring program, a youth internship program, a Latino homeownership program and other human services. In 2005, the LAA assisted more than 69,000 individuals and their families.