Groups Trained

NEDAP conducts community financial literacy and justice trainings with a broad range of groups throughout New York City, including organizations serving women, seniors, youth, and immigrants.  A few examples are below.  Each week NEDAP conducts numerous community trainings.  Please see our calendar for upcoming workshops and other events.

Child Welfare Organizing Project

NEDAP recently trained Parent Leaders at Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP) on credit and banking issues.  CWOP is a parent / professional partnership dedicated to public child welfare reform.  The organization works with parents involved in the New York City child welfare system to create increased, meaningful parent involvement in service and policy planning.   

Erasmus Neighborhood Federation
Erasmus Neighborhood Federation (ENF) is a community-based organization dedicated to preserving housing and improving the quality of life for residents of East Flatbush Brooklyn. Since 1979, ENF has concentrated its efforts on affordable housing, commercial revitalization, child care and economic development. NEDAP has provided many trainings to its members on issues affecting homeowners and first-time homebuyers, particularly information about predatory mortgage scams.

Margert Community Corporation
Margert Community Corporation is a housing organization in Far Rockaway that provides neighborhood preservation services, housing assistance and counseling to low income tenants and homeowners, the elderly, and persons with disabilities, generally within high poverty census tracts with a larger percentage of minority and single parent households. NEDAP has conducted many trainings as part of Margert's Homeownership Preparation course, providing aspiring homebuyers with information about the mortgage process, fair housing, and avoiding abusive mortgage and real estate practices.

Sanctuary for Families

Sanctuary for Families is dedicated to the safety, healing, and self-sufficiency of battered women and their children. Sanctuary offers a broad range of high-quality services including shelter, legal assistance, and counseling.  NEDAP recently provided financial literacy training to French-speaking West African women, at Sanctuary. 

UPROSE Youth Justice

We have conducted several trainings with the Youth Justice program at UPROSE, a community organization in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.  During the summers of 2004 and 2005, NEDAP led workshops on basics of banking, credit cards, and defending oneself against advertising.  NEDAP also provided information to young people working with UPROSE through the city's Summer Youth Employment Program, helping to clarify how their payroll cards worked and how to avoid fees.

WHEDCO

WHEDCO is the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation, a community based organization in the Bronx.   WHEDCO provides people with the tools and the support they need to confront urban poverty in its many dimensions--joblessness; homelessness; inadequate childcare; lack of education and opportunity.  NEDAP has conducted several community trainings at WHEDCO, on  banking and credit issues, for home-based child care providers and public assistance recipients. 

Women in Prison Project

In 2003, the Correctional Association of New York's Women in Prison Project launched Re-Connect, a leadership training program for women who have recently returned home from prison or jail. NEDAP has provided trainings for the women on credit issues and strategies for building wealth.