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Out and Read / Winthrop Hospital
Winthrop
is a 591-bed teaching hospital
located on Long Island in Mineola,
NY. A major regional healthcare
resource, the Hospital has been
a leading healthcare provider
for more than a century, committed
to the integrity, dignity and
well-being of every individual.
They offer a full complement of
inpatient and outpatient services,
with a deep commitment to medical
education and research. Addressing
a healthcare challenge facing
many of our English-speaking and
spanish-speaking residents living
on Long Island, CEPC has partnered
with Winthrop Hospital to implement
a hospital waiting room bilingual
reading program. In order to ease
the burden of having a child wait
with a parent, for an extended
period time, without anything
constructive to do, young patients
will be matched-up with a bilingual
reading partner from Old Westbury,
during their wellness visit. By
modeling the act of reading while
entertaining a small child waiting
to be seen by a doctor, an effort
is being made to provide a service
to both the parent and his or
her child.
Girl
Scouts of Nassau County
Girl
Scouts of Nassau County identified
and secured funding to address “Relational
Aggression” as
a critical issue facing young
girls. CEPC has not only tapped
faculty from the Psychology Department
to develop relevant curriculum
but it will also be placing several
interns from Old Westbury in the
Girl Scouts Relational Aggression
Assessment training program. In
addition to being trained to enter
specific target communities to
teach young girls the Relation
Aggression Awareness classes,
students from Old Westbury will
also be helping Girl Scouts of
Nassau County administer pre-program
and post-program questionnaires.
Goodwill
Industries
Goodwill
Industries’ mission
is to enhance the quality and
dignity of life for individuals,
families and communities. They
strive to overcome barriers to
opportunity for people in need
and facilitate empowerment, self-help
and service. Goodwill provides “a
hand-up, not a handout” to
persons with disabilities and
disadvantages, the unemployed,
youth and inner-city communities.
Old Westbury students will be
working with several youth programs
located at Goodwill. They will
be engaged in various activities
such as mentoring, tutoring and
coaching.
Urban
League
Established
in 1910, The Urban League is the
nation's oldest and largest community-
based movement devoted to empowering
African Americans to enter the
economic and social mainstream.
The mission of the Urban League
movement is to enable African
Americans to secure economic self-reliance,
parity, power and civil rights.
Students will assist the Urban
League with heir Expectant-Mother
Literacy Program. Our students
will be trained to talk to expectant
mothers (at a local Labor & Delivery
Unit/Obstetrician’s
office) about the importance of
reading to their babies/children.
In addition, if an expectant mother
has a child present; our students
will read to the expectant mother’s
child to model the act of reading.
Our students will also work in
the Urban League Saturday Academy
Program where they will be trained
to tutor students, grades K-12,
in English Language Arts and Math.
Old Westbury interns will be working
with the Urban League to help
implement their hospital new-mother
literacy program
Acorn
ACORN
works in more than 75 cities across
the United States to
improve housing conditions for
the economically disadvantaged,
increase community safety, secure
living wages for all workers and
improve the quality of local schools.
ACORN members participate in local
meetings and actively work on
campaigns, elect leadership from
the neighborhood level up, and
pay the organizations core expenses
through membership dues and grassroots
fundraisers. Our
students will be trained to be
engaged in a number of activities
varying from making presentations
at public forums to assisting
ACORN in administering their taxation
program.
Neighborhood
Network
The
Neighborhood Network is dedicated
to reclaiming the suburban and
rural character of community life
on Long Island by preserving our
environmental resources; initiating
policies to prevent exposures
to environmental hazards; and
holding our governmental officials
accountable by advancing reforms
which set higher ethical standards
and keep the operation of government
open to the public. Our students
will be involved in a myriad of
activities ranging from working
on their chemical Pesticide Program,
speaking at Town Meetings to working
on their upcoming Organics Turf
Trade Show.
Nassau
County Planning Commission
The
Planning Commission consists of
nine members appointed by the
County Executive. The County charter
stipulates that all Commission
members must be residents of Nassau
County, and that the Commission
must include at least one resident
from each of the three towns.
The charter also requires that
certain interests – environmental,
business, and minority, etc. – be
represented. The planning Commission
will be engaging Old Westbury
students in a research study.
This study will be designed to
assess the availability of affordable
housing in several villages in
Nassau County.
Workplace
Project
Workplace
Project is dedicated to fighting
the exploitation of Latino immigrant
workers on Long Island and to
achieving social justice through
full political, economic, and
cultural participation of those
workers in the communities in
which they live. Similar
to arrangements made with other
organizations, our students will
be trained to be engaged in a
number of activities varying from
making presentations at public
forums to assisting the Workplace
Project staff during member meetings
held at their office in Hempstead.
