United Community Centers (UCC)
Protecting The East
Protecting The East (PTE) is a community health project of United Community Centers with an emphasis on HIV prevention and sexual health.
Contact:
Deidre Miller
Director, Protecting The East
613 New Lots Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11207
Mission
The mission of Protecting The East is to create an environment in East New York where young people can create safe and healthy relationships.
Activities
Peer Education Internship: Young people spend 6 months learning how to conduct outreach, develop communication and leadership skills and support our community health initiative
Workshops: PTE offers workshops and activities around healthy relationships, sexual health education and HIV/STI prevention
Outreach and Venue Distribution: PTE conducts outreach to keep community members safe from HIV/STIs while teaching them about building healthy relationships. During outreach, PTE distributes free resources such as contraceptives, HIV self-testing kits, and information flyers at events, businesses, health fairs, parks, subways, and more.
UCC Early Learn Center
UCC Early Learn Center is a daycare center that creates a social learning environment that represents the diversity of our City, in which children learn to live with one another and begin to develop an understanding of themselves and of their world.
Contact:
Diana Barnes
Director, UCC Early Learn Center
613 New Lots Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11207
Mission
We want our children and teachers to capitalize on all available knowledge about learning and growth and to connect teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world.
3-K and Pre-K Enrollment is Now Open!
The daycare MySchools ID is KBPK. Please call us at 718-385-1201 or email dianab@cypresshills.org if you have any questions
East New York Farms
East New York Farms (ENYF) is a project of the United Community Centers in partnership with youth, gardeners, farmers, and entrepreneurs to build a more just and sustainable community.
Contact:
620 New Lots Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11207
Mission
To organize youth and adults to address food justice in our community by promoting local sustainable agriculture and community-led economic development.
Activities
Community Gardens: East New York has more community gardens than any neighborhood in the city. We support gardens through community garden workshops, Summer garden assistance, mini-grants, and Share Table. We also connect gardens with members looking for space to grow.
Youth Internship: We hire young people to participate in our Youth Internship program every year. In this intensive 9-month program, young people engage in hands-on learning around environment, health, community development, leadership, and social justice.
Community Education: Our Community Education series educates our neighbors about how to grow, prepare, and preserve food.
Urban Farms: We operate four urban agricultural spaces, which produce over 70 varieties of cultural relevant foods. Our farm spaces also serve to bring the community together by hosting educational workshops and volunteer days. One of our farms are in NYCHA developments in the neighborhood.
Farmers' Market: Our community-run farmer's markets make fresh food available and affordable while building our local economy and creating places for neighbors to meet and greet.
Compost: East New York Farms! has been composting for over 15 years. We collect food scraps year-round to process into nutrient-rich compost for farms and gardens in East New York to grow organic produce.