http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/fashion/13genb.html
Climate of Fear
Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.
A Special Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center
Montgomery, Alabama
SEPTEMBER 2009
splc_suffolk_report_lores_(2).pdf
Witness_For_Peace.pdfWitness_For_Peace.pdf
Is a collaborative funding initiative of Long Island-based foundations to support a coordinated nationwide campaign to increase participation in the 2010 census in communities that are at significant risk of being undercounted. Specifically, the initiative seeks to increase the response rate in what the Census Bureau has determined are Long Island’s hard-to-count communities, which include people of color, children, immigrants, residents of multi-family dwellings, renters, and many other undercounted populations. The foundations invite proposals from nonprofit organizations for activities such as public education, outreach, communications, special events and community mobilizing specifically aimed at increasing mail response rates in designated communities.
•September 15, 2009, 10:00am-12:00pm - Information meeting at the Hagedorn Video Conference Centers with Census professionals and speakers from NALEO, Latino Justice PRLDEF, and others to
provide potential grantees with information that will aid in the proposal writing process.
Hagedorn Video Conference Centers:
FSL Bayshore: 1444 5th Ave, Bay Shore, NY - (631) 968-2896
FSL Riverhead: 208 Roanoke Ave, Riverhead, NY - (631) 369-0104
HWCLI Hempstead: 1 Helen Keller Way # 401, Hempstead, NY - (516) 505-4420
•September 30th, 2009 by 5:00pm - Proposals are due. Proposals should be sent to “Long Island 2010 Census Initiative at LICF” See page 4 of the RFP for more details.
Every family with a newborn baby deserves comprehensive supports from the prenatal period to preschool.
While the birth of a baby should be a joyous event and the first few years of a child’s life should be filled with hope and
promise, parents usually find childbirth and child-rearing to be challenging experiences.
They are not experiences that any family should go through alone.
This paper will describe a system of services that supports new families by providing three components: universal prenatal
care, postpartum screening, and comprehensive home visiting.
All new families in New York State should receive assistance from a model neutral system of support and services that
promotes optimal health, mental health, family functioning and self-sufficiency.
Such a system would serve all pregnant women, infants, and new families (including first-time parents and existing families with
new babies). This system of services would include universal contact/screening of all pregnant women and new families; assessments
for parent, child and family health, mental health, developmental, social, literacy and other service needs; early intervention and referrals to an array of coordinated
supports and services; and home visiting services of varying duration and intensity as needed. In addition, it would reflect a pyramid-type structure (see diagram on page 3)
wherein all pregnant women and new mothers/families receive general services, those with identified needs receive more targeted services, and those at high-risk receive very
specific, intensive services. Finally, the system would utilize proven practices and, in high-risk or high-need situations, evidence based practices.
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Home_Visitation_White_Paper_4-09.pdf
Long Island’s Hispanic population has grown dramatically in recent years, led by new immigration from Latin America. Indeed, Hispanics have emerged as the major source of demographic growth for the region - excluding new Hispanic residents, Long Island would have lost, rather than gained, people since 1980. The new Hispanic presence is visible both in cities and villages with established Hispanic populations and in smaller and more remote communities, especially in Suffolk County.
Download the Report: Adelphi Report.pdf
As workers, consumers, entrepreneurs and taxpayers, Hispanics make important contributions to the Long Island economy. Hispanic residents add nearly $5.7 billion to total Long Island output as a result of their consumer spending. Hispanic employment continues to grow very rapidly - increasing by almost one third from 2000 to 2004 alone - and Hispanic workers are an important presence in diverse regional industries, including Manufacturing, Accommodation and Food Services, Landscaping Services and Construction. Hispanic-owned business is also booming in the region, posting almost $2 billion in sales in 2002. In addition, Long Island Hispanic residents contribute positively to local government budgets. This study finds that Hispanics contribute $614 more per resident to local revenues than they receive in local expenditures on education, health care and corrections.
The importance of Hispanic Long Islanders to the regional economy will only deepen as this population continues to grow in the years ahead. This study documents the extraordinary recent changes in the region’s Hispanic residents and describes the key demographic characteristics of this population. It then quantifies the Hispanic population’s contributions to production, employment and new business creation on Long Island. The report concludes by analyzing the Hispanic contribution to local government revenues and costs.
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