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Want to learn more about CCC’s Keeping Track database and how it helps inform public policy and activism? Our Community Leadership Course may be exactly what you’re looking for. Offered every Wednesday for ten weeks in the fall, the CLC focuses each we …
Meet the CLC: Dawn Eig
Dawn Eig has moved 18 times in her life, across four countries and five states, before finding a permanent home in New York City, her place of residence for the past twenty years. Now living in Chelsea with her husband Andy, 12-year-old son Oliver, 8-y …
Meet the CLC: Sheila Cruz
Sheila Cruz works as a Foster Parent Advocate at The Children’s Village, an organization that helps struggling children and families access resources and opportunities that can help them thrive and a strong partner of CCC’s. In her role, Sheila guides …
CLC Learns about Early Childhood Education in Fifth Week
Week five of the CLC focused on the youngest New Yorkers and the early childhood programs that the City has for them including homevisiting, subsidized child care, Head Start and pre-kindergarten. Early childhood education and homevisiting programs hav …
CLC Week 3 Explores Homelessness and Housing
CLC participants visiting St. John’s Family Place Shelter in Crown Heights. A common challenge for New Yorkers is the soaring cost of rent. While housing costs can be an obstacle for many of the Big Apple’s residents, low-income New Yorkers are …
Community Leadership Course Kicks Off for 2016
The week of September 12th marked the beginning of CCC’s 2016 Community Leadership Course, a ten-week program that teaches participants about the various challenges children and families in New York City face and introduces them to programs around the …
