Our values

  • The PASOs Program participants have a lot of knowledge and experience. PASOs helps empower participants to put that knowledge into practice.
  • Collaborative discussion and sharing of information is a source of power.
  • Changes come from within the community.
  • Relationships are the basis of real, sustainable change.
  • Our methods are culturally based—not culturally placed.
  • PASOs respects the dignity and privacy of all program participants.
  • PASOs respects and incorporates Latino cultural values, such as familismo, personalismo, y confianza.
  • When we teach, we are not the “experts,” but rather the “facilitators.”
  • The PASOs curriculum is based on adult learning and popular education methods. It is: interactive, learner-centered, based on participants’ experiences, and in their words.
  • PASOs leadership is constantly reevaluating and adapting program methods to make them more pertinent, and founded on best practices.
  • PASOs believes and practices a “power-sharing” mentality versus a “power over” mentality.
  • PASOs values collaboration with a diverse group of individual and organizational partners as we strive to make incremental change in the right direction.
  • PASOs strives to remove barriers to equal rights, and access to resources and health care.
  • The PASOs Program uses its limited resources in the most effective way possible.
  • The PASOs Program does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, sex, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, or legal status.

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