Community Center Initiative

The creation of a Community Center is crucial to the HCA’s continued development on behalf of the families it serves. These families come to us in times of crisis, instability and isolation – they need someplace to come to.

Through services in the future community Center such as babysitting, preschool, family counseling, evening education, and seminars, families have the chance to overpower their struggles by actively engaging in, and contributing to, a positive and productive environment.  Local employers come to the Community Center to seek reliable employees.  Meet-up groups provide community members with further opportunities to support and learn from one another.

The creation of the Community Center will require a fund of approximately $450,000 to locate a space of approximately 5000 square feet in New York City, to remodel the space into a facility fit and able to support the activities for which it is intended, and to pay one year’s rent costs.

A supplementary fund of approximately $500,000 will ensure HCA’s ability to seek and employ qualified and dedicated individuals to help manage and operate the Community Center, and to provide specialized services such as education and counseling to the families it serves.  As the Community Center is gaining traction, HCA will commence an outreach program to create an awareness about our services in the community. HCA will employ public relations and communications professionals to implement this educational outreach initiative, to ensure that HCA’s services – and our donors’ contributions – can be available to anyone in need.

 

Youth Outreach Initiative 

HCA seeks to engage youth at the high school and college levels in organizing, with the help of our supervision, a support group where young people in need can seek the help and compassion from other young men and women.  These volunteers, once educated and trained by HCA, will identify those of their peers who may be experiencing difficulties, and assist in HCA’s outreach to them.  Volunteers will also have the opportunity to assist the parents and children in the Community Center.  College students who experience success with the Youth Outreach program will have the opportunity to obtain full-time employment in our organization, or to work with HCA to earn employment in another not for profit organization.

Every time we provide an individual with the resources and compassion she needs to overcome what could otherwise have been a disastrous situation, collectively – with the distinguished contributions of our donors – we contribute to the future of our society.

A fund of approximately $600,000 dollars will be required to initiate and sustain the efforts specific to this program for a period of one year.