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Immigration:
UNO has provided complex legal counseling to as many as 450 immigrants a year to achieve legal residency through two offices,
one in Tampa and the other in Clearwater since 2004 and seeks funding to help legal residents take the next step towards citizenship.
As many as 7000 new legal residents per year in the Tampa Bay area do not seek citizenship due to financial and other barriers
which can be corrected in part through UNO leadership and financial resources. click here to learn more
Outreach:
UNO seeks funding for a wide variety of educational activies and programs to impact on children concerning quality of life
issues such as high drop out rates, teen age unwanted pregnancies, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and availability
of community services in Spanish
Advocacy: a 2001 Juvenile Welfare
Board Needs Assessment Study for the Hispanic Community, and a 2002 Pinellas County Office of Human Rights study on Discrimination
in Housing confirms a high degree of racial and ethnic discrimination is practiced against minorities in housing and presents
a barrier to integration into living in Pinellas County. UNO is committed to challanging persons and/or organizations that
practice or are passive on issues of race, religion or gender.
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