We are excited to announce that The Center for New North Carolinians was recently awarded The Way Forward Grant from Bringing Theory To Practice (BTTOP). The goal of our participatory action research project is to evaluate the Community Centers over the next year and a half in order to track … Continued
Community gives us unlimited capacities to grow. After five months of being closed due to COVID-19, the CNNC Community Centers reopened in September. Located across the city of Greensboro are our three community centers: Glen Haven, Oakwood Forest, and the newest center, the Community Enrichment Center. The Community Centers support … Continued
Interpretation demands accuracy. That’s why Cesar Bastias goes by Tony when he’s interpreting. Many people were misinterpreting his first name as “scissor,” so he picked Tony for its simplicity. For Tony, delivering accurate interpretation is so vital that he altered his own name so as to be understood correctly. Tony, … Continued
The Center for New North Carolinians was caught off guard by COVID-19 and the subsequent changes to our work back in March, as we all were. For the spring 2020 interns, we were particularly uncertain of how we would meet our internship requirements, keep serving our clients, and how would … Continued
As it has been said by many observers already, this current pandemic may have initially seemed like the great equalizer in terms of class and race – after all, it looked like it was taking the rich with the poor, the white with the black, the green with the dry … Continued
CNNC Current Status In response to the rapidly changing 2019 Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) situation, CNNC, all of our programs, and our four Community Center sites (Glen Haven, Oakwood Forest, Legacy Crossing & Autumn Trace/Community Enrichment Center) are suspending in-person programs and services as of Wednesday, March 18, 2020, and providing … Continued
Dear CNNC friends, Warmest greetings in this new year. Already in its infancy, 2020 has proven to be a challenging one for our refugee and immigrant communities and for those of us working as – and for – new (and sometimes not-so-new) North Carolinians. In my native Arabic, we have … Continued
As a BSW student, I was unsure what to expect when starting my internship with the Immigrant Health Access Project (IHAP) at the Center for New North Carolinians (CNNC). I was not familiar with the resources in the community for immigrants and had limited knowledge of resources for medical care. … Continued
Have you ever walked into a room and there were instant cries and screams? That completely describes my first day at Thriving at Three. My name is Kierra Boone and I have been interning this semester with the CNNC. I will be graduating from Appalachian State University in just a … Continued