Our Immigrant Health ACCESS team is seeking a Bilingual (Spanish/English) Dental Community Health Worker. The Community Health Worker (CHW) will work closely with the Guilford Adult Dental Access team to ensure language access and service coordination for Spanish-speaking patients. The CHW will be co-located in the Guilford Adult Dental clinic. Duties … Continued
Meet Tawanna Maryland: The Mastermind Behind the Mystery Summer Camp Program By Tyrelle Lee, Human Development and Family Studies Intern at CNNC Fall 2018 AmeriCorps Member Tawanna Williams Maryland is passionate and driven in her stance to provide immigrant and refugee communities with extraordinary access to a better life. Partnering … Continued
Oakwood ESL Academy By Salwa Majeed, CNNC Summer Volunteer, UNCG Graduate Class of 2018 For two weeks in July, the volunteers and coordinators at the Center for New North Carolinians helped host ESL Academy (English for Speakers of other Languages). By organizing hands-on learning activities, field trips, and games, many … Continued
ESL Academy By Gillian Belcher, Summer intern 2018, Bachelor of Social Work student at Niagara University, Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty I had the opportunity to spend my summer with the CNNC’s Community Centers. The community centers try to mix fun and educational programming for the kids. I had the … Continued
Youth Writers’ Camp By Salwa Majeed, CNNC Summer Volunteer, UNCG Graduate 2018 If you walk around the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s campus in the middle of July, you’ll find the grounds filled with children and young adults. Many of them are participating in different summer camps, where they’re … Continued
“We Are Better Together” By Tyrelle Lee CNNC Intern Human Development and Family Studies Major, expected graduation, Dec. 2018 It was a pleasure witnessing our fellow agencies come together at the Unity Festival and Walk to celebrate the diverse cultures of Greensboro on a Saturday in the middle of August. … Continued
Professional interpreters provide such an important and valuable service. They serve to connect clients and providers through language and cultural brokering. And just like other professions, interpreters have a code of ethics they must follow. The Interpreter ACCESS Project at UNCG’s Center for New North Carolinians has been providing its … Continued
As she completes her third term with the ACCESS Project, AmeriCorps member Ghaisha Yahaya-Mohamed proudly announces that she has accepted a job offer with Church World Service’s Greensboro office to continue doing what she loves – “impacting the lives of the most vulnerable among us by restoring and renewing their hope, … Continued
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The sentence above from the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America is … Continued
Monsters to Destroy: A Humorous Multimedia Talk by Ben Tumin Thursday, August 23, 7pm Guilford College Dana Auditorium Shift Worlds: Displacement and Forced Migration In Modern Times Friday, August 24, 9am-5pm Registration begins at 8:30am UNC Greensboro Alunmi House, Virgina Dare Room Register here Join the CNNC, Guilford College and … Continued