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The Guadalupe Center: Transforming Lives Through Education
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The Guadalupe Center empowers children and families through education and support.
For nearly 60 years, the Guadalupe Center has helped Utah families build brighter futures through early childhood education, after-school learning, adult education, and family support services. Richard Pater discusses how education creates opportunities, strengthens families, and helps break cycles of poverty.
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Contact is a local public television program presented by PBS Utah
Contact
The Guadalupe Center: Transforming Lives Through Education
Special | 3m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
For nearly 60 years, the Guadalupe Center has helped Utah families build brighter futures through early childhood education, after-school learning, adult education, and family support services. Richard Pater discusses how education creates opportunities, strengthens families, and helps break cycles of poverty.
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(upbeat music) - The Guadalupe Center helps Utah families by offering education and family support services.
Richard Pater is here to tell us more about the work the center does to help communities throughout Utah.
Welcome, Richard.
- Thank you, Liz, it's lovely to be here.
- So the Guadalupe Center, I hear, it's more than a support services type of a place.
You guys do a lot more than that, right?
- We do.
So the Guadalupe service or the Guadalupe Center, the services we provide are focused on the families and students we serve.
So over 60 years we've served the community of Salt Lake, helping families and students access education in order to better their lives, understand their own potential, and to transform their life to meet what our mission is, which is transforming lives through education.
- [Liz] And you guys are able to do this at no cost to those families?
- That is correct.
No direct cost for any of our programs to our students or families.
- How?
- So we, so Guadalupe, as I mentioned, has been around for over 60 years.
And in those 60 years, we've been able to develop some really good funding relationships with foundations, corporations, and government sources that help us take that funding and leverage it to meet the needs of those we serve.
- Why is this something that is critical or crucial for our communities?
- Well, in the environment that we serve, we have individuals who, well, let me say it this way.
It's probably a better way.
We believe that education is what can be considered the great equalizer.
That is, it's one of the best paths to open up opportunity and to change and transform lives.
So it's one of the best ways for families and students to be able to break the cycle of poverty and not only recognize and learn things, but recognize that they have potential that they might not have otherwise seen and thereby opportunities that come from that.
- Yeah, so you might see kids walking through the doors with their heads down and walking out with a lot more confidence.
I love the work that you are doing.
Thank you so much for joining us.
- Thank you.
- And for being here for this.
If you would like to learn more information about the Guadalupe Center, how you can get involved, how you can learn about all of the services that they offer, the website's on the screen, just head to guadalupeutah.org for more details.
I'm Liz Adeola, and thank you for watching "Contact".
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