- 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.
