Under the auspices of the Peconic Housing Initiative we either offer theses now in our Development Center or we refer clients to organizations that do. We are always working to offer more direct empowerment.
Peconic Community Council, Inc. is pleased to announce the awarding of a grant in the fall of 2006 in the amount of $30,000, from the Horace Hagedorn Foundation. This grant was awarded, September 2006, to begin the East End Immigration Initiative. PCC was an integral part of a task-force made up of several human service, church, and Latino organizations whose purpose was to come up with creative solutions to address the overcrowded housing and crack-down of undocumented immigrants. Out of this task-force the idea of "Block captains" and cultural competency education for the community as a whole was developed. A bilingual Spanish outreach worker, Sophie Worrell, was hired to assist in connecting with the immigrant community. The pilot project is now underway in the Flanders/Riverside area of the Town of Southampton.
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