Program areas at Canal Alliance
The social services team plays a critical role in helping families access safety net services to address any urgent needs, access our weekly food pantry, and get referrals to our licensed clinicians for behavioral health services. Since the start of the pandemic, this team has been on the front lines of our response helping clients access financial and rental assistance, unemployment insurance, small business loans, and other resources.
Youth education - after school educational assistance services for students through high school and college placement assistance.
Our immigration legal services department is the only provider of comprehensive and affordable immigration legal services in marin county. Ils helps clients seeking information about their legal rights and options by providing legal consultations, referrals, and representation and conducting legal outreach and education, offering a key pathway out of poverty by helping clients gain legal work authorization and naturalization/citizenship.
Workforce development provides training that prepares and supports clients to gain quality jobs that offer career-track employment opportunities. The program ensures client success by providing wraparound case management and two years of follow-up services. The program has a high one-year job retention rate of 87% and income increases that average 41%. We also offer small business classes in spanish to help latinos launch and manage their own small businesses.
Canal housing provided housing for 12 families in three apartment buildings. We have renovated all three buildings, upgrading and repairing each apartment and installing solar panels on the roof of each solar power has substantially lowered each tenants monthly pg&e bill.
Esl - educational assistance for adult clients.
Pace - program to disseminate community and local policy information to Canal residents.