Established in the fall of 2004, the Cambio Center main goals are:

• Provide education and enhance the welfare of all residents of the state of Missouri in the context of the current demographic changes
• Develop a premier source of knowledge, scholarship, and outreach to respond to the local effects of globalization
• Provide knowledge and best practices to facilitate the integration of newcomers to Missouri and the Midwest
• Provide knowledge and best practices to facilitate a smooth integration of newcomers to Missouri and the Midwest, and prepare all citizens for a diverse society
• Understand the international nature of the immigration process, the cultures and institutions of Latin America, as a major global partner of Missouri in the exchange of goods and the migration of people

www.cambiodecolores.org

The Cambio Center organized the eighth annual Cambio de Colores "Latinos in the Heartland" conference. May 18-20, 2009, St. Louis, Missouri

NEW! Proceedings 2005 (Published April, 2009) Stephen Jeanetta and Corinne Valdivia (eds.) Cambio de Colores - Latinos in Missouri: Connecting Research to Policy and Practice, Hoy y Mañana - Proceedings of the 2005 annual conference Published by the Cambio Center, University of Missouri, April, 2009 (88 pp.) You can download it free of charge.

Promotoras de Salud, New Cambio Center Grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health
A two-year health literacy program that will serve as the bridge between the providers of health care services and the targeted Latino community, in collaboration with Columbia’s Centro Latino. PI: Cambio Center fellow Stephen Jeanetta (Project Summary).

The Cambio Center main research project:
Asset Accumulation Strategies in 3 New Settlements Communities
Web site of the Cambio Center's USDA-NRI research project on newcomers integration in Missouri.

A recent Cambio Center international event:

Coloquio Internacional "Migrantes regionales en las Américas. Casos de Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Estados Unidos"
Una iniciativa del Cambio Center.
Buenos Aires, 8 y 9 de setiembre, 2008

International Colloquium “Regional Migrants in the Américas. Cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States”
A Cambio Center Strategic Initiatives project, in cooperation with the Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad San Martín (Argentina), Universidad de Chile.
September 8-9, 2008, Buenos Aires
(More information - in Spanish.)

New Data from the Census: Population Estimates for Missouri, April 1, 2000 and July 1, 2007, statewide and by county, showing that the Latino population grew over 50 percent in that 7-year period. (PDF file, 233 pp.)

The Cambio Center is one of the International Programs at MU

Cambio Center Newsletter: April, 2009