La Casa de Amistad

Lacasa’s new auto loan program offers Elkhart County residents with low credit scores fair financing and coaching to help break cycles of high-interest debt.

La Casa de Amistad community engagement director Dara Marquez says honoring Latino immigrants who have helped others, at a time when immigrants are increasingly cast as outsiders, reminds her that Hispanics have called Michiana home for decades.

La Casa de Amistad Executive Director Juan Constantino says the nonprofit Latino advocacy group has been researching and planning the food truck commissary kitchen project for two years because South Bend lacks one.

To celebrate World Refugee Day and Immigrant Heritage Month, South Bend Mayor James Mueller read a proclamation Friday to Hispanic youth at La Casa de Amistad.

Sean O'Brien, who has practiced immigration law for five years in South Bend, has started leading a new Immigration Law Clinic at La Casa de Amistad to prepare for a Trump administration crackdown.

La Casa de Amistad will hold its annual Hispanic Heritage Month Community Celebration and Awards Ceremony.

Longtime benefactors and avid art collectors Gilberto Cardenas and Delores Garcia have donated more than 120 pieces themed around love and peace to La Casa de Amistad, Michiana’s leading nonprofit Latino advocacy group.

La Casa de Amistad plans three events to mark Hispanic Heritage Month: a Notre Dame football tailgate, a new art gallery, and its annual event honoring unsung heroes in the local Hispanic community.

The national charity was so impressed with La Casa de Amistad that it doubled its grant to $2 million

The $1 million is the largest in La Casa's history