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Puente de la Costa Sur (Puente Resource Center)

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620 North Street/PO Box 554
650-879-1691
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Puente de la Costa Sur (Puente Resource Center) provides vital services for men, women, children, and families living in the rural South Coast communities of Pescadero, La Honda, Loma Mar and San Gregorio. Puente provides food, clothing, rental and utility assistance; literacy programs for English and Spanish learners; enrollment in health insurance programs; educational health outreach, screening, and immunizations; parenting education and support programs, and counseling and peer support for adults and children. Currently, Puente's services primarily reach men, women, and children originally from the rural areas of Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Michoacán, and Jalisco. In addition, Puente provides services to the region's low income Anglos. As the primary community resource center in the region, Puente provides complex and wide-ranging services. By leveraging our resources, we provide unified points of access for a continuum of services and support in the communities we support. The individuals and familes served by Puente face wide-ranging challenges that are often compounded by the isolation that stems from living in rural communities, language barriers, and difficulties with negotiating a new cultural and social landscape.