Resident Leaders Fellows
This program for natural leaders and those who want to expand their leadership combines community organizing and advocacy with critical areas of learning. RLF benefits anyone who wants to make a difference. Learn about and practice:
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Learning for Life
From babies to 80's and beyond, CCRA members can take advantage of learning series and fun activities.
- In the Know allows parents (or guardians) to learn about great technology tools for children (5-10 years old) to improve their reading, math, and technology skills. Parents and children attend sessions together. When the program is complete, the family gets a great technology tool. This year's class is getting the iPad 2 thanks to our partnership with the Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy and support from AT&T Foundation.
- Digital Connectors is a yearlong opportunity for teens (12-17 years old). Connectors benefit from a holistic curriculum developed by One Economy Corporation. It's all about leadership, technology and computer repair, financial literacy, and civic engagement. When the program is complete, the Digital Connect has earned certification in financial literacy, certification in computer repair (from Cisco), and a great technology tool. Last year's Connectors received the Kindle thanks to support from W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
- Adult Education and GED Preparation is all about creating a space for adult learners to move on to what's next in their education and career.
These are just a few of the programs designed from listening to residents about what they need and want. Among our other programs are: Parent Power, Learner Web, iTech, iType, Character Counts (for youth and teens), and Money Matters.
Come Home to Central City
With support from the Greater New Orleans Foundation, we began a series of conversations with residents, developers and community development organizations to identify challenges to transforming our neighborhood. Throughout Central City, residents, organizations and elected officials are working together to meet these challenges. CCRA launched a holiday event to attract attention to the historic highlights of our neighborhood and to feature brand new homes in Central City. Last year's Home for the Hollydays will be followed by this year's Come Back to the Center!. Come Back to the Center will take place on October 14-15, 2011, and is a collaborative response to a call to action from Council Member Stacy Head and the shared commitment of dynamic community development partners and resident groups:
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Associated Neighborhood Development
Builders of Hope Central City Partnership Central City Renaissance Alliance Faubourg Delassize Neighborhood Association Faubourg Lafayette Neighborhood Association Felicity Street Redevelopment Harmony Oaks Neighborhood Association |
Hoffman Triangle Neighborhood Association
Hope EC Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Neighborhood Development Foundation Neighborhood Housing Services New Orleans Neighborhood Development Collaborative Preservation Resource Center |
Healthy Neighborhoods New Orleans (HNNO)
CCRA is proud to have been selected as one of two neighborhood organizations citywide for a project of the Louisiana Public Health Institute in its cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention REACH-Core. HNNO brings together strategic neighborhood partners to work with residents in identifying and addressing the drivers of Type II Diabetes. Project partners are creating a plan for what we can do as a community to create an environment that supports being healthy. The project's health focus is on the prevention and improved management of Type II Diabetes. Central City's HNNO partners include:
Early Childhood & Family Learning Foundation
Efforts of Grace – Sistahs Makin' a Change
Gris Gris Lab, Inc.
Hetep DeStress Center
St. Thomas Community Health Center
Mahalia Jackson Early Childhood and Family Learning Center
CCRA staffs the member service and resource desk at the Mahalia Jackson Early Childhood and Family Learning Center. We are there to connect residents and members to dynamic programs, activities and services that wrap around the Mahalia Jackson Elementary School, a school of the Orleans Parish School Board. At Mahalia Jackson, your little ones might also participate in Total Community Action's Early Head Start or Head Start programs. Make your way to the New Orleans Public Library, St. Thomas Community Health Clinic, State of Louisiana Neighborhood Place or even CCRA's Community Campus, including a public access computer lab. All this and more is available at Mahalia Jackson! Visit us at the 2405 Jackson Avenue location. Onsite Partners include:
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Mahalia Jackson Elementary School (OPSB)
TCA Early Head Start and Head Start Early Childhood and Family Learning Foundation BoysTown Central City Renaissance Alliance |
Circle of Courage Mentoring Program
Louisiana Prime Time! Louisiana State Neighborhood Place New Orleans Public Library St. Thomas Community Health Clinic |
Promise Plus Collaborative
In Central City, community partners are building a network of programs that focus on children at every level of their development – from birth through college. CCRA serves as the convening organization for this collaborative whose mission is to transform the lives of Central City children and youth; to do so with a commitment to transparency and accountability; and to do so in partnership with residents, service providers, school leaders and supporters working to make Central City a place where children thrive.
Through ongoing work in a Results Based Accountability process, the Promise Plus Collaborative has identified six result areas we will impact:
- Central City children enter school ready to learn;
- Central City children and youth achieve academic success;
- Central City children and youth are healthy;
- Central City children and youth are safe;
- Central City youth are leaders; and
- Central City children, youth, and families build intergenerational wealth.
Project Partners include:
| Trustee Organizations Central City Renaissance Alliance Children's Defense Fund Dryades YMCA Early Childhood & Family Learning Foundation Greater New Orleans Afterschool Partnership Operation REACH, Inc. Orleans Parish School Board Total Community Action Educational Partners TCA Early Head Start & Head Start James Singleton Charter School Mahalia Jackson Elementary School Program Design Partners Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans Catholic Charities Education Department |
Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation Central City Partnership Communities in Schools of Greater New Orleans Concordia LLC Equal Voice For America's Families Foundation for Louisiana Goodwork Network Healthy Lifestyle Choices Hetep Destress Center/NOABSW IDEAS Counseling and Consulting Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana KidsmART KIPP Central City Louisiana Children's Museum Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Mahalia Jackson Early Childhood & Family Learning Center New Hope Baptist Church |
New Orleans College Prep School NONDC One Economy Corporation Rebuild Child Care Collaborative Reconcile New Orleans United Way of Greater New Orleans Urban Equity Urban Strategies Incorporated Young Audiences/Wolf Trap Walter L. Cohen Senior High School Current Supporters Central City Funders Collaborative City of New Orleans Entergy Corporation Greater New Orleans Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation W.K. Kellogg Foundation Zawadi Giving Circle |
