Social enterprise providing living wage employment as well as Family Asset Building programs including: Adult Education (GED, ESL, computer training); onsite childcare; employee school involvement program; health access education and navigation.
Southwest Creations Collaborative (SCC) is a women-driven social enterprise that provides contract manufacturing for sewn soft goods and hand-crafted products. We have a social mission to alleviate poverty and build economic and educational opportunity across generations. Since 1994 we have provided dignified employment while improving access to education for employees and their families.
Hacia: Toward the University (Hacia)is Southwest Creations’ vehicle to apply our best practices to impact a much greater number of families in addition to those we employ in our market-driven enterprise. This two-generation family engagement program inspires and supports whole families as they navigate the pipeline from Pre-K to higher education.
Hacia builds an intergenerational culture of engagement and lifelong learning that is sometimes lacking in families with low levels of formal education. For vulnerable children, this translates to family support for reading and other home learning activities and improved school attendance, key indicators for academic achievement, high school graduation and first generation college attendance. We meet families where they dream.
1308 4th Street NW