Program offers a ‘PASS’ to education and wellness Manuel, Nayeli and Maria Lara Cervantes (Courtesy of La Colonia de Eden Gardens, Inc.) July 9, 2021 3:15 PM PT Print Nayeli used the loaned computer to attend online classes. Her mother logged on to a Spanish-speaking book club and relaxation classes. The technology helped her father answer questions that had been difficult to understand with limited English. “It helped us,” said Manuel Lara Cervantes, Nayeli’s father. “We had to adapt, to start with the basics, and they helped us step by step.” The help came from La Colonia de Eden Gardens, Inc.’s, Parental Access for Student Success (PASS) program. During the COVID-19 lockdown, PASS secured Google Chromebooks with prepaid internet subscriptions to loan to low-income, undocumented immigrant families. The loans included training and assistance on how to run computer programs that had become part of everyday life — Google Classroom, PowerSchool, Aeries, Zoom and Google Meets, to name a few.