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Resource Directory
Employment (7) 
Employment Development Center
The Armory, 216 Fort Washington Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10032.
Tel: 212-781-6388.
Fax: 212-781-6892.
Email: Dapheights@hotmail.com.
The Employment Development Center assists out-of-school youth 17-24 years old with their career decision-making and growth process as they become part of and navigate the world of work. It provides information and referral services, assessment and consultation services, job placement and retention services, and a career resource center with access to phones, fax and state-of-the-art computers with Internet access.
Isabella Geriatric Center
515 Audubon Avenue, New York, NY 10040.
Tel: 212-342-9200.
Fax: 212-927-4592.
Email: info@isabella.org.
Provides long-term care, independent senior housing, adult day health care and home health care. For the younger members of the community, offers college scholarships, career training, and child care. Read more about the center.
JCCWH Job Listings
121 Bennett Avenue, New York, NY 10033.
Tel: 212-568-5450.
Fax: 212-928-3059.
The Jewish Community Council of Washington Heights maintains a job listing geared to the Jewish community in Upper Manhattan.
Jewish Community Council of Washington Heights-Inwood
121 Bennett Avenue, #11A, New York, NY 10033.
Tel: 212-568-5450.
Fax: 212-928-3059.
Email: jccwhi@juno.com.
Provides a broad range of social, educational, and supportive services for the elderly, immigrants, and needy in the community. Services include community relations, counseling/mental health, adult day care/day programs, employment services, English as a Second Language, entitlement services/advocacy, friendly visiting, food pantry and weekend meals, Holocaust survivor services, home care planning, immigrant and refugee services, adult recreational programs, respite, Kesher senior programs, telephone reassurance, and transportation.
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Economic Development
600 West 185th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10033.
Tel: 212-543-0010.
Fax: 212-543-1308.
Email: nmced@nyc.rr.com.
The NMCED's mission is to promote economic development that will result in the creation of a living environment that is conducive to thriving rather than simply sustaining survival. NMCED achieves its mission through an array of services to increase and promote economic development and self-sufficiency in Northern Manhattan. Some of their services include, but are not limited to: technical support to small business owners, Capital Investment Opportunity Forums, and lectures on basic business management strategies. NMCED collaborates with government and private institutions to provide educational services to the unemployed, recently arrived immigrants, welfare recipients and low-income residents, which will allow them to successfully compete in the job market. NMCED offers technological education courses such as basic computer and Internet accessibility training, English as a Second Language for people with limited English proficiency, childcare provider classes, and GED Classes. Currently, NMCED is involved in two major projects that will capitalize on the area's diversity, human capital, and entrepreneurial ingenuity. (1) Casa Duarte Cultural and Performing Arts Center is one of the most comprehensive and complete plans for the development of arts and culture in Northern Manhattan. (2) The Commercial Street and Revitalization Plan will create guidelines to improve and develop the pedestrian sidewalks of
the Inwood community. NMCED believes these projects will improve the commercial thoroughfare by enhancing the development of businesses and encouraging upcoming artists to participate in our community.
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
76 Wadsworth Avenue, New York, NY 10033.
Tel: 212-568-9166.
Fax: 212-740-9645.
NMIC provides services that form a critical link in the overall stability of a rapidly growing and changing low-income community. Its housing programs minimize evictions and maximize improvements to the housing stock. Employment and social services give residents needed tools for attaining economic independence and stabilizing their home life. NMIC's Workforce Development Center provides comprehensive skills, training, education, job placement, support services and follow-up monitoring and retention services to Washington Heights and Inwood residents. NMIC also provides public benefits advocacy to ensure that eligible residents receive appropriate public assistance, food stamps, day care placement, and disability payments. Social services include crisis intervention and ongoing support, assisting formerly homeless families to relocate into permanent housing, promoting self-suficiency; also, domestic violence programs, health and nutrition education, community education on a variety of topics, and advocacy with public and private institutions.
The Beehive NYC
Tel: 212-493-3204.
Fax: 212-825-1475.
This Web site provides New York families with information that will help them learn more, earn more and live better. Whether you want to locate affordable housing, find a better job, get free health insurance for your children, get legal and immigration assistance, open your first bank account, learn how to save thousands on taxes, or discover homework help for your kids, the Beehive NYC has the information you need. Everything is free and available in English and Spanish (plus some information in Haitian Creole, Russian, and Urdu as well).