Your Resident Service Coordinators wear many different hats and do different types of work daily, but we wanted to highlight YOU, our residents, and your success stories. Here is Monique's story about her experience working with Resident Coordinator Andrea Andrade during Job Club. To sign up for Job Club, email [email protected] / Sus coordinadores de servicios para residentes usan diferentes funciones y realizan diferentes tipos de trabajo todos los días, pero queríamos destacarlo a USTED, a nuestros residentes y a sus historias de éxito. Aquí está la historia de Monique sobre su experiencia trabajando con la Coordinadora Residente Andrea Andrade durante Job Club. Para inscribirse en Job Club, envíe un correo electrónico a [email protected]

"In 2017, moving to Westgate Townhomes was a new path for me. I was pulling myself out of a toxic way of life. Poverty, unhealthy relationships, negative mindsets. My life was hard from the very beginning. Growing up, both of my parent were drug addicts, I endured my mother being physically abused, and I was severally neglected. Unable to control their lifestyle, I became a ward of the system. Foster kid, later a teen mom, high school dropout, then a Mother to four beautiful daughters. To ultimately becoming a very new single mother.

In 2018, I experienced the most difficult hardship of my life. My children’s father tragically passed away. This loss hurt me more than losing my own father. This is when I met Ms. Andrade. I was broken, confused, and completely LOST. She showed me so much compassion. I could see the tears welling up in her eyes as I told her my story. I knew

she cared. She would share resources and most of all share what she seen in me. I needed to see the value in myself. I decided to go back to San Joaquin Delta College and I took a different path. Mrs. Andrade then told me about a program called Victims Assistant Training VAT. Immediately, she printed out the application for me. Some months later, I completed VAT. It was one of the best things I have ever done for myself.

In 2020, I graduated from San Joaquin Delta College with my Associates Degree in

Humanities. I was hired at Women’s Center Youth and Family Services as a Domestic

Violence Specialist. I now see what she sees. I found my value and my purpose." /

My name is Eusevio Ortega and I was born and raised in Madera, CA where I was the first in my family to go to college at UC Davis. As a recent UC Davis graduate, I’ve worked in various communities and have contributed to several projects that focused on affordable housing development and advocacy. Due to my involvement in community-based projects, I decided to join CCRH to remain committed to helping communities ensure affordable housing opportunities for all California residents. Mi nombre es Eusevio Ortega y nací y crecí en Madera, CA, donde pude ser el primero en mi familia en ir a la universidad en UC Davis. Como recién graduado de UC Davis, he trabajado en varias comunidades y he contribuido a varios proyectos que se centraron en el desarrollo y la promoción de viviendas asequibles. Debido a mi participación en proyectos comunitarios, decidí unirme a CCRH para mantener el compromiso de ayudar a las comunidades a garantizar oportunidades de vivienda asequible para todos los residentes de California.