HEISKELL COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTER
CLOTH is developing a Heiskell Community Technology Center in partnership with Enterprise
Community Partners in the ground floor of a newly renovated building on Amsterdam Avenue.
The mission of the CLOTH Heiskell Community Technology Center will be
to provide access to state-of-the-art computer technology and training
to the residents of Southern Washington Heights. The presence of the
Heiskell Community Technology Center in our neighborhood will give
community members the opportunity to enhance their computer skills in
order to access expanded employment opportunities and to enrich their
lives.
The CLOTH Heiskell Community Technology Center will offer computer
classes to neighborhood children in partnership with CLOTH’s
After School Program and the Community Health Academy of the Heights.
Students from the CHAH will use the CLOTH Heiskell Center while their
facility is in development.
CLOTH will be reaching out to the broader community to make the
computer center available to other local neighborhood schools and youth
initiatives. CLOTH is also seeking funding to offer adult education
classes in the early evenings.
The CLOTH Heiskell Community Technology Center will open in September 2007.
AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
Community League of the Heights offers comprehensive after school
programming for public school students in Washington Heights.
CLOTH’s after school program operates five days a week throughout
the duration of the school year. Three New York State certified
teachers along with four tutors with backgrounds in education spend
four hours during after school hours offering participants a nutritious
snack, structured homework support and an academic lesson designed to
reinforce daily classroom curriculum. Through a partnership with the
Center for Urban Community Service, students and their families receive
social services.
As an extension of the after school program, CLOTH’s summer
program ensures students are ready to begin the next grade with a firm
academic foundation. The summer program combines meaningful classroom
academics with visits to various New York City sites of cultural
significance.
Overall, CLOTH’s after school and summer programs seek to enrich
the lives of children by supporting their daily classroom experience,
offering social support to students and families, and creating a
community of focused, dedicated learners. If you would like more
information, please contact Kurt Johnson at (212) 795-4779 x110 or by email.
COMMUNITY HEALTH ACADEMY OF THE HEIGHTS
The Community Health Academy of the Heights, founded by CLOTH in
partnership with the NYC Department of Education, offers a new
opportunity for the young people of Washington Heights to achieve
academic excellence. Together with New Visions for Public Schools, the
New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia University Medical
Center, CLOTH designed this 6th-12th grade public school to fulfill its
half-century long commitment to serve the young people of Washington
Heights.
The Academy will give students the opportunity to prepare for college
while gaining experience and knowledge in the health care field. Our
students will learn what health is, how to achieve it and how the
health of individuals affects the health of the community -- and vice
versa. CLOTH will play an ongoing role in supporting the curriculum,
maintaining close ties between the community and the Academy, raising
funds for the Academy, supporting student families and, lastly, in
creating a permanent, new home for the Academy.
Under the leadership of Sandra Maldonado, a lifelong Washington Heights
resident and longtime educator in the community, the Academy provides a
small, focused environment for students and their families, with the
individualized support needed for youth to graduate and continue on to
higher education. Our health care partners provide an exciting range of
school-and hospital-based health-related learning opportunities so that
students can experience close-up the demands and rewards of the health
care professions. Students will have work-study, community service and
job shadowing opportunities at the hospital and/or under the guidance
of health care professionals. Tours, trips and speakers on subjects
relating to community and health are also a regular part of the Academy
experience. The hospital and medical center also provide Mentors to
work with individual students as friends and role models.
The Community Health Academy of the Heights opened its doors on
September 5, 2006 to sixth and seventh graders and will add a grade a
year until we reach full capacity. The Academy is temporarily sharing a
campus with two other schools. In two years time, the Academy will move
to a new home which CLOTH is developing. The new facility, located at
W. 158th and Amsterdam Avenue, will house the Academy and CLOTH, as
well as the Community League Clinic operated by the Community
Healthcare Network. This facility, the Lucille Bulger Center for
Community Life, will serve our students, families and the community at
large, helping build an educationally, economically and physically
healthy community.
Community Health Academy of the Heights
512 West 182nd Street at Audubon Avenue
New York, NY 10033
Principal: Sandra Maldonado
Phone: 212.568.3401