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Equity Work that Matters Spotlight: Unlimited Potential

Unlimited Potential is a small family center in South Phoenix that for 27 years has been educating and empowering economically challenged, undereducated families. Currently most of the parents and children they work with are first and second generation Mexican immigrants. Towards this end they provide an array of services including English as a second language (ESL) classes, GED classes, an early childhood program, a home visitation program, and parent leaderships groups. The empowerment perspective is central to everything they do as they try to ensure that families are personally, interpersonally and politically empowered. Unlimited Potential uses a popular education approach that builds on the culture and wisdom of participants. Daily, group members share their experiences, dialogue and reflect on what is happening in the world around them and on how they can participate in creating more just environments for themselves and for the next generation.