Program areas at NIDC
NIDC Youth activities include after-school, holiday camp, and summer programming at PS/MS89,PS96, PS77, PS 16, PS105 and PS483. Programming includes homework assistance, academic enrichment, social/emotional development, leadership development, health, and wellbeing. Total afterschool students 1000. NIDC also operates the Community Center at Eastchester Gardens (NYCHA) providing afterschool, evening and weekend services to youth, adults, and seniors. The total number of participants is 2,000. NIDC also works with at risk youth in middle school, high schools and out of school youth. We also provide our families, communities, and schools with NIDCs Health Hub workshops as well as our Parent support network meetings monthly. Other community events include, vaccination outreach/van, plant-based food, book bag giveaways, Fall Festival and National Night Out against Crime. Total attendees were estimated to be 3000.
NIDCs Housing team assisted a total of forty (40) tenants avoid eviction,we counsel over 500 clients by providing rental counseling. We assisted one hundred and thirty-eight clients (138) apply for subsided assistance. We assisted twenty (20) clients in filling out applications for lottery apartments, NYCHA and creating accounts for affordable housing through Housing Connect. We assisted had over 100 units tenants had complaints, and issues included heat/hot water complaints, repairs, broken elevators, etc. We held four (4) workshop in total, two (2) for tenants and two (20 for property owners.
NIDCs Housing Navigator program helped house New York City residents navigate the housing voucher system to find permanent housing. Services included helping clients find, view, and apply for units and completing the financial packages required to get move-in checks and a furniture allowance when needed. The Housing Navigators worked with hundreds of clients, ultimately helping approximately 150 individuals and families find and secure permanent housing, with the remaining clients opting out of program support for a variety of reasons, including moving out State, or finding housing with other assistance.