Red Hook Farms
These two streets in Red Hook give our two farms their names.
What is Wolcott and Columbia?
This Acronym is the abbreviation of the Workforce Team’s Bi-Monthly Job Readiness workshop series.
What is CSS?
This is the name of the emergency preparedness program started after Hurricane Sandy that trained over 250 residents and launched our housing organizing work?
What is Local Leaders?
The primary participant age range that the Adolescent Team serves
What is the name of Red Hook Initiative’s Newest Director of Health & Wellness, a Red Hook resident
Who is Karen Ross?
Farm youth run this activity every Saturday morning, selling our fresh produce to the public.
What is Farm Stand?
This Young Adult Staff member can connect a resident to internal RHI services, including GED enrollment, financial or travel support, and also guides youth to access benefits and entitlements.
Who is Marissa?
This person is the Community Health Worker for Red Hook. She can support youth and families with services like benefits enrollment, mental health referrals, primary care doctor access, and housing support. She is at RHI every Thursday from 9:30 - 1pm and is supported through the Red Hook Community Health Network
Who is Clarissa Rios?
The name of the 6-week literacy based service that the Adolescent Team provides to middle and high school students in the summertime.
What is Freedom School?
Name this activity which is when a staff member or program team meets with a counselor to consult on a client
What is case conferencing?
Before it was a production and education space, the Columbia farm was primarily used for this activity.
What is baseball?
This young adult group has a dedicated page on the website which highlights their auto-ethnographies and the RHI Ambassador Series of editorials focused on the neighborhood’s safety
What is the Public Safety Organizers group?
Name this national survey that the Community Building team led work in 2020 - our work resulted in an increased representation in Red Hook particularly for the Chinese community
What is the Census?
This pipeline provides professional and peer college matriculation and retention support for rising college freshmen and enrolled college students to increase college retention and ensure that financial, academic, and/or socio-emotional issues do not become barriers to earning a college degree.
What is College Scholars pipeline?
This is a one time individual and introductory meeting with a counselor
What is a Wellness Session?
This chicken is the supreme royalty of the coop.
Who is Empress?
3-4 Young Adults can join this YA Workforce program to earn their driver’s license, if they want to pursue Green Driving & CDL Job
Driver’s Education Pilot Program
Name this CB Team’s public housing campaign that seeks to address generations of disinvestment in public housing.
What is #FullyFundRedHookHouses?
Name this activity that 9th & 10th graders who are brand new to RHI start their tenure with during our afterschool employment training program.
What is Youth-Leaders-In-Training/Career Starters?
Name this primary way that Counseling receives it's referrals
What is referrals from RHI staff?
One example of the many things you can trade for a bag of produce at the Wolcott distributions on Friday mornings.
What are food scraps, volunteer time, participation in a cooking demo, OR filling out a survey ?
Name these 2 knew staff positions who will provide workforce training and job placement support for young adults pursuing employment
What is the Job Developer & Workforce Training Coordinator Or Who is Erica P & Tearany Hardaway
These are the names of all 10 members of the Community Building Team
Who is Catherine, Michel’le. Tevina, Kiyana, Carolyn, Kara, Anabelle, Betty, Xiao, Quincy?
This program provides youth with access to reproductive & emotional health support and the opportunity to increase access to healthcare and resources.
What is Peer Health program?
Name this framework which was designed to holistically respond to intergenerational trauma & violence to bring collective practices that can transform the consequences of oppression
What is healing justice framework?