CPC Congratulates Our Little Graduates

CPC celebrated the graduation of some of our preschool children during the week of June 21st. Congratulations to all of our little graduates and their families! We wish you the best in Kindergarten and beyond!

CPC Cultural Program Participants Complete Remote Year of Mandarin Language Skills Development

Congratulations to all the children from the weekend Mandarin and Cultural Program on your moving up day. We are proud of your perseverance and dedication despite a difficult year and classes being held remotely. Congratulations and thank you for joining us for a socially distanced celebration to pick up your certificates and gift!

CPC Joins Advocates to Urge City Council to Support Adult Literacy Programs

On June 15th, CPC’s Adult Literacy program instructor Caroline Scown spoke at the New York Immigration Coalition rally alongside other agencies, advocates, and immigrant New Yorkers for a budget that centers immigrants as essential to NYC’s recovery. Caroline urged the City Council to baseline $12 million for the Adult Literacy initiative and to launch the Investing in Quality Adult Literacy Pilot for $10.5 million to address the inequitable gap in digital literacy, systems navigation skills, and access to all resources available to New Yorkers.

CPC Project Reach Raises More than $10,500 for Give OUT Day

For the month of June, CPC Project Reach took part in a national campaign called Give OUT Day. THANK YOU to all the generous donors who joined this incredible campaign in support of CPC Project Reach and LGBTQ communities nationwide. Because of your support, we were able to surpass our goal and raise $10,672!

"Hate Has No Home Here" Fresh Produce Distribution Event Reaches Hundreds

On June 15th, CPC Brooklyn Community Services partnered with the Met Council and allies to host a food distribution event to address food insecurity in NYC and to fight back against hate and discrimination in all its form. More than 900 shares of produce were distributed.

CPC Co-Sponsoring NYC Commission on Human Rights Day of Know Your Rights

CPC was a co-sponsor of NYC Commission on Human Rights’s (NYCCHR) Day of Know Your Rights on June 30th. Mitch Wu, CPC's Director of Queens Community Services and Marilla Li, CPC Project Director for Mobility LABs Flushing Collaborative, spoke at the Mandarin language workshop. NYCCHR also held Spanish, Russian, and French language workshops.

CPC Queens Community Services Hosts AAPI Heritage Month Virtual Town Hall

On May 27th, CPC gathered a panel of elected officials and community leaders to discuss the intersections of COVID-19, anti-Asian hate, and their impacts on the Asian American community. The virtual event featured Congresswoman Grace Meng, State Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, Flora Ferng, L Tantay, Alex Gomez, Christopher Kuo, Co-Chair CPC's Leadership Council, and Mitch Wu, Director of CPC Queens Community Services.

CPC Statement on the Close of 2021 NYS Legislative Session

The New York State legislative session ended early in the morning on Friday, June 11th. While some critical pieces of legislation were passed, CPC is disappointed that key pieces of legislation aimed at improving the lives of essential workers and community members went unaddressed. Not enough has been done at the State level to address the deep-rooted inequalities that communities in New York have been facing for years, which have only been exacerbated during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Our Community, Our Stories - CPC Inspires Beneficiaries to Give Back: Vanessa Chiu

CPC launched the "Our Community, Our Stories" campaign to share the personal stories of different community members directly impacted by CPC. Our sixth community story features Vanessa Chiu. Vanessa was first introduced to CPC through our afterschool programs. Her parents immigrated from Hong Kong and worked at garment factories. She recalled watching her parents at work, making games out of whatever she could, “trying not to get injured, get into too much trouble or be too much in the way,” she said.

CPC Statement on Ending the 24-Hour Rule in NYS Home Care

CPC and its subsidiary, the CPC Home Attendant Program Inc. (HAP), are disappointed that A3145 (Epstein) – the bill to end 24-hour shifts for home care workers and replace those live-in shifts with 12-hour split shifts – did not pass during the 2021 NYS legislative session. It is an urgent priority to end this practice, and we are grateful to the long-time legislative champions and the seven new co-sponsors that signed in support of A3145 this session. We will continue building momentum around this important issue by advocating for change ahead of the next legislative session.