Casa Cultural

Organization Description

Casa Cultural is a nonprofit cultural arts community center. Our mission is to provide a safe and positive environment for youth and young adults to teach and promote the traditional folklore of its community. We support and promote the growth of our members to create leaders that will provide positive results in improving the quality of life in our community.

 

Fingerprinting -- Dept. of Justice Required.

Program Information
  • Create curriculum, lesson plans, and/or activities (including physical or hands-on activities)
  • Create evaluations, assessments, or survey instruments
  • Create or promote marketing content
  • Create written or digital content (e.g. graphic design, photos, website, blog/article, social media posts)
  • Develop technical content or materials (e.g. policy development, grant writing, tutorials, software/web development)
  • Develop, present and/or facilitate a workshop, training, or tour
  • Engage in a research and/or scholarly activity
  • Participate in and/or lead outreach efforts
  • Plan, organize, or lead an event, program, or community project
  • Provide general office administration (e.g. filing, data entry, processing forms, intra-office communication, meeting preparation, returning phone calls)
  • Serve as a mentor
  • Serve as a tutor
  • Serve in a customer service/concierge role
  • Support or assist with an event, program, or community project

Student will receive a one-on-one training/orientation to learn more about the organization and then be guided through a project task. To then conclude independently with a design and implement service for members.

We are looking for individuals who want to share their artistic skills or interests to support our goal of serving the community with relevant art and culture awareness to enhance their academics and leadership skills as members.

Health & Safety

We are located in a gated industrial block entering the airport neighborhood, which does statically have crime and high homelessness. In our 19 years serving the areas we have not had any crime or vandalism to our facility or our members vehicles. We do have someone monitoring the premises during program hours to sustain a safe environment for all our members. We take very seriously the safety of all our members and team members. We have a partnership with officials to continue to clean up the area and providing a safe environment for those experiencing homelessness as well.

We are located in a gated industrial block entering the airport neighborhood, which does statically have crime and high homelessness. In our 19 years serving the areas we have not had any crime or vandalism to our facility or our members vehicles. We do have someone monitoring the premises during program hours to sustain a safe environment for all our members. We take very seriously the safety of all our members and team members. We have a partnership with officials to continue to clean up the area and providing a safe environment for those experiencing homelessness as well.

Additional requirements and/or considerations
  • Fingerprinting -- Dept. of Justice
Address 
202 S. Santa Cruz
MODESTO, CA 95354
United States
General Phone 
Student Contact 
Name
LAURA CANELA
Job Title
Director
Phone
Email
Program(s) 
Service Learning
Organization type 
Arts, Entertainment or Recreation (Nonprofit)
Focus Population(s)
Adults, Children/Youth, English Language Learners, Families, Teens/Young Adults
Focus Area(s)
Arts, Culture, and Humanities, Civic Engagement, Education
Hours of operation 

Mon -Thursday 8am -12pm Break 5pm -9pm Friday 8am -12pm Break 5pm -7:30pm

Maximum students 
4