Believe in Me Empowerment Corporation
Believe in Me Empowerment Corporation is dedicated to improving the lives of youth, young adults and their families and works toward this mission through direct and indirect programming by providing housing, life skills, and counseling services for its program participants. The Fellow will be engaged in direct service and case management work with clients who are recovering from substance abuse, addressing social emotional concerns and/or are returning citizens.
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Agency website: www.bimecnewhaven.com
Christian Community Action
Christian Community Action (CCA) serves families in New Haven experiencing homelessness by providing apartment style emergency shelter. CCA also provides other emergency needs such as food and diapers to people in the community. With its ARISE (Accessing Resources for Independence, Skill building and Employment) Center, CCA seeks to go beyond emergency help and help families in our community be socially and economically stable on their journeys to independence. The Fellow assist staff with helping residents and community members access child care and employment.
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Agency website: ccahelping.org
CitySeed
CitySeed is a nonprofit organization that seeks to provide access to fresh, local food for all New Haven residents. They believe access is a combination of proximity to food, affordability of food, and knowledge about food. The Fellow will work with the Market Management Team to increase community outreach regarding CitySeed’s SNAP Doubling and Farmers Market Nutrition programs, and will also assist with the creation and management of events at the Farmers Markets.
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Agency website: cityseed.org
Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK)
DESK serves people experiencing homelessness or living in poverty by providing food assistance and services that promote health, community, and equity. The Fellow will work with DESK’s program staff to coordinate the weekly food pantry program; coordinate the distribution of meals as part of DESK’s nightly dinner program; provide onsite services as part of DESK’s Drop-in & Resource Center program; and gain an in-depth understanding of how frontline social services work for people experiencing homelessness.
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Agency website: deskct.org
Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall
The Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall offers access to credited college courses, degrees, and other academic and extracurricular programming to incarcerated students in Connecticut. College in prison stands at the forefront of national conversations around access to higher education and criminal justice reform, and college in prison programs have proven their transformative and rehabilitative value both to underserved students of great potential in prison — who excel given the chance, who display extremely low rates of recidivism, and who go on to become leaders in their communities — and to instructors, for whom teaching in prison is an eye-opening reminder of the power of higher education. The Fellow will select from projects assisting and coordinating on-the-ground YPEI programming, including assisting and liaising with course instructors, guest lecturers, and volunteers; providing administrative and operations assistance including materials management; assisting with fundraising and grantwriting; and working with community partners and formerly incarcerated students on student re-entry in New Haven and local initiatives based around criminal justice reform.
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Agency website: www.yaleprisoneducationinitiative.org