History of CPLC
Housing & Economic Development
Education
Health & Human Services
Advocacy & Impact
100

Decade in which CPLC was founded as part of the Chicano Movement

What is the 1960s?

100

Program that offers living support for families

What is affordable housing?

100

CPLC operates these types of publicly funded schools

What are charter schools?

100

Provides this type of counseling to support mental well-being

What is behavioral health counseling?

100

Events organized by early leaders to demand equal opportunity for Mexican Americans

What are student walkouts, farmworker protests, and boycotts?

200

This city was home to the original CPLC headquarters

What is Phoenix, Arizona?

200

President Carter's representative at the Casa Primavera inauguration

Who was Lillian Carter, his mother?

200

She joined CPLC in 1970 and was later considered the mother of CPLC

Who is Terri Cruz?

200

Parenting programs designed to reduce this risk factor for children.

What is child abuse and neglect?

200

CEO who changed agency from pure advocacy to community development corporation

Who is Joe Eddie Lopez?

300

Site where Cesar Chavez fasted for 24 days in protest of HB2134

What is Santa Rita Hall?

300

In 2015, this President visited CPLC’s housing initiatives

Who is President Obama?

300

CPLC community school that in 2025 was giving an A rating

What is Envision?

300

Provides residential substance use treatment with holistic therapies

What is CPLC Corazón?

300

Civil rights leaders that inspired CPLC advocacy for equity in education, politics, and labor conditions

Who are Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez?

400

Joe Eddie Lopez supported CPLC’s Phoenix Union Walkout in this year

What is 1970?

400

Historic Golden Gate building to be redeveloped by CPLC

What is Sacred Heart Church?

400

This CPLC program helps adults earn their GED

What is the Adult Education Program?

400

Mental Health Center providing services to children in California

What is Amanecer?

400

CPLC's mission drives this type of empowerment

What is economic and political?

500

He held the position of CPLC’s first CEO in 1969

Who is Juan Alvarez?

500

Provides small business loans and TA to entrepreneurs in the Southwest

What is Prestamos CDFI?

500

This all-girls public charter high school empowers young women in Arizona

What is the Girls Leadership Academy of Arizona?

500

This program serves individuals facing homelessness in New Mexico

What is gateway west emergency shelter?

500

This rallying cry was coined at CPLC’s Santa Rita Hall in 1972 by Dolores Huerta

What is "¡Sí se puede!"?

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