New York Communities for Change Brings ESL and Solidarity Online

New York Communities for Change holds an online town hall to support workers excluded from the federal stimulus and from unemployment.

New York Communities for Change works with CWE’s Worker Service Centers (WSC) to provide ESL classes twice a week across 6 different locations in Brooklyn and the Bronx. During the COVID-19 shutdown, NYCC has shifted to respond to the needs of its students and communities they serve.
 
NYCC is holding its ESL classes online with Zoom, to so students can continue their education without interruption. Between March 16th and April 15th, NYCC had 89 online classroom sessions with more than 550 students in attendance.
 
NYCC has also kept in touch with community members by holding online town halls and weekly community meetings, which are offered with simultaneous translation from English to Spanish. They have developed and shared COVID-19 resources in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole for their participants and families. NYCC is now working on a COVID-19 relief fund, in partnership with the New York Communities Organizing Fund.