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  • Essay / Latino Community Of Chelsea - 1539

    Centro Latino, led by Juan Vega, offers a variety of programs including adult education classes, ESL and computer classes, citizenship services and immigration as well as HIV/AIDS and drug/alcohol counseling. support. The Chelsea Collaborative led by Gladys Vega, Juan Vega's cousin, also runs a social service organization that helps newly arrived immigrants with services that may be important to them at this time or in the future. There is a Department of Children and Families that helps families with questions regarding school, health care, and family services. The Chelsea Tenant Association helps resolve housing and tenant/landlord disputes. CLIC (Chelsea Latino Immigrant Committee) helps undocumented workers know and understand their rights by operating worker centers. There are employers who take advantage of these people and violate their rights because they believe that there are no consequences since the workers they hire are undocumented. Although these workers are undocumented, these employers must understand that they have human rights and a complaint can still be filed with the Attorney General's Office to review the situation.