New Community Corporation, Inc. houses many programs; some whose impact is sometimes overlooked. The certified home health aides of Essex Valley Visiting Nurse Association (EVVNA) take care of homebound clients in need of personal care assistance throughout Essex and West Hudson counties. These unsung heroines provide assistance with activities of daily living including hygiene, grooming, ambulation, and eating on a daily basis to clients in need of help. Services also may include shopping, assistance with meals, and light housekeeping. EVVNA’s home health aides also provide much needed respite and rest time for family caregivers.
Each client is provided with an individualized care plan detailing the services they will receive. The care provided by the certified home health aides is overseen by a Licensed Registered Nurses. In addition, Licensed Practical Nurses, Social Workers, Registered Dietitians, and therapists may also provide care based on each client’s needs.
Essex Valley Visiting Nurse Association celebrated the accomplishments of their Home Health Aides during National Home Health Aide Day by hosting a luncheon for the home health aides in their honor. Each home health aide also received a certificate of appreciation and a gift to acknowledge their commitment to our clients and in recognition of the quality care they provide each day to each person they serve.
Essex Valley Visiting Nurses Association, a non-profit agency, is a subsidiary of New Community Corporation’s vast network of services. EVVNA, licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and Certified as a Provider of Home Health Services under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, provides professional health care and medical social services to clients across the lifespan including Seniors, Adults, Children and Families.
The EVVNA Home Health Aide Recognition Day Award Ceremony is a joyous celebration highlighting those who are often forgotten for their daily labor caring for residents in need.
For inquiries or additional information, please contact: Essex Valley Visiting Nurse Association, 274 South Orange Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07103; (973) 412-2000.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Monsignor William J. Linder to celebrate 45 years of service to Newark Community
Newark, NJ ~ On June 1, 2008, Monsignor William J. Linder will commemorate his 45th year as a Catholic priest.
One of Linder’s most notable accomplishments, and one he is still rigorously devoted to, is the creation of New Community Corporation in his extraordinary journey of service to the people of Newark.
New Community Corporation was created in response to the aftermath of the 1967 Newark Disorders. Over the last 40 years, NCC has helped transform the City of Newark from what Time Magazine described as “America’s most hopeless city,” where “both ordinary residents and major institutions were abandoning it in droves,” to a place of hope, rebirth, and triumph.
Much of the Central Ward was devastated. Back then, Monsignor summoned a coalition of local residents and suburbanites to develop safe, attractive housing for low income residents, forming a community that shared and cared for one another on a 45‑acre tract encompassing 14 city blocks in the heart of the Central Ward.
Today, NCC is recognized as America’s largest successful community development corporations. Headed by Monsignor and a talented team of executive staff members, NCC is comprised of several program departments, a community newspaper, a conference center complete with The Priory Restaurant and other social enterprises.
During these times of war and recession, Monsignor is still working to address the increasing social service needs affecting the most vulnerable in our society, the elderly and poor families. The comprehensiveness of the program services offered by New Community Corporation have created a network of housing, employment, day care, education, social services, job training, health care, economic development, and banking services to urban residents.
NCC Health Care Services Complex, another major effort by Linder, is home to an extended care facility for 180 frail elderly, 102 units for homeless families at Harmony House, NCC Essex Valley Visiting Nurses Association, a hospice and one of NJ major suppliers of Licensed Practical Nurses through NCC’s School of Practical Nursing.
Now known globally, the founder’s efforts are a model for successful, grassroots community development across the nation and the world, as documented through Monsignor’s doctoral dissertation “An Urban Community Development Model (May 1988)” at Fordham University. Through his many other academic endeavors, Msgr. Linder continues to lecture and consult internationally to community groups, bankers and community development aficionados.
New Community Corporation employees participate in a culture that is embodied by the principles of family. The visionary and caring leadership of Linder’s makes the organization one of community. Often times training graduates are employed at NCC and promotions from within are commonplace. NCC employs over 1,600 people, 94% of whom are minorities from the communities served by the organization.
Humble were the beginnings of New Community Corporation, when its novice yet well-intentioned, leadership endlessly sought to self-educate about the principles of running a successful business - the founder, Monsignor Linder included. Some of the coursework and Continuing Education Conferences Linder has lectured in include: University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business: "Fundamentals of Finance & Accounting for the Non-Financial Executive" January 1980; Institute for Professional and Executive Development: "The Nonprofit as Entrepreneurs;" "Syndicating Real Estate Washington, D.C.: February 1985; Rutgers University: "Fundamentals of Real Estate Syndication and Securities" New Brunswick, NJ: January 1983; National Real Estate Development Center: "Making the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Work" December, 1988, "Affordable Housing Legislation; RTC, Tax Credits, Federal Home and Loan Funding," Washington, D.C.: November 1989; The Ditchley Foundation: "Conference on Urban Regeneration" Ditchley Park, Enstone, Oxfordshire, England: January 1989.
Throughout his career, Monsignor continues to participate in the education arena. For example he was the Executive Lecturer for Marriott School of Management in Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah. He bravely participated in vital discussions that sought to solve the deep rooted societal issues faced by urban communities. He has participated in Planning Exchanges like: U.S.‑Japan Metropolitan Planning Exchange – a joint venture of the Regional Planning Association and Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research, Tokyo, Japan: July 1992; Roundtable on Big Cities and the New Politics of Child and Family Policy at Columbia University School of Social Work, New York City, 1996 and Vital Voices Conference on Women Sponsored by US Department of Commerce’s Address on: “Economic Development & Opportunity in a Time of Change” Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 31, 1998.
His international travels and experience deem him an authority in Community Development. He has served as adjunct professor at Columbia University and Rutgers University as well as on the board of directors for several charter schools and educational institutions. Monsignor has also served within the international arena as the lead consultant to Community Development groups in Ireland and Africa. Often, he plays the role of host to groups who visit and examine, first-hand, the New Community Corporation experience.
Modest about his momentous and infinite number of accomplishments, Monsignor Linder will not list the awards and recognitions received; for he is focused on NCC’s mission of “helping residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement.” Until this mission is fulfilled, he vows to never rest. When asked where does his motivation to accomplish this mission originates from, he humbly and paradoxically asks, “How can I be content when my fellow man is in need?”
The apple of this man’s eye, New Community Corporation has improved the lives of tens of thousands of inner city residents while transforming the Newark landscape into an attractive urban scene. It is a major factor in the continued stability of the area through its housing and business ventures.
Thanks to the continued efforts of Linder, New Community Corporation infinitely continues to empower low‑income individuals to "determine their own destiny” of self-sufficiency into the millennium and beyond.
Newark, NJ ~ On June 1, 2008, Monsignor William J. Linder will commemorate his 45th year as a Catholic priest.
One of Linder’s most notable accomplishments, and one he is still rigorously devoted to, is the creation of New Community Corporation in his extraordinary journey of service to the people of Newark.
New Community Corporation was created in response to the aftermath of the 1967 Newark Disorders. Over the last 40 years, NCC has helped transform the City of Newark from what Time Magazine described as “America’s most hopeless city,” where “both ordinary residents and major institutions were abandoning it in droves,” to a place of hope, rebirth, and triumph.
Much of the Central Ward was devastated. Back then, Monsignor summoned a coalition of local residents and suburbanites to develop safe, attractive housing for low income residents, forming a community that shared and cared for one another on a 45‑acre tract encompassing 14 city blocks in the heart of the Central Ward.
Today, NCC is recognized as America’s largest successful community development corporations. Headed by Monsignor and a talented team of executive staff members, NCC is comprised of several program departments, a community newspaper, a conference center complete with The Priory Restaurant and other social enterprises.
During these times of war and recession, Monsignor is still working to address the increasing social service needs affecting the most vulnerable in our society, the elderly and poor families. The comprehensiveness of the program services offered by New Community Corporation have created a network of housing, employment, day care, education, social services, job training, health care, economic development, and banking services to urban residents.
NCC Health Care Services Complex, another major effort by Linder, is home to an extended care facility for 180 frail elderly, 102 units for homeless families at Harmony House, NCC Essex Valley Visiting Nurses Association, a hospice and one of NJ major suppliers of Licensed Practical Nurses through NCC’s School of Practical Nursing.
Now known globally, the founder’s efforts are a model for successful, grassroots community development across the nation and the world, as documented through Monsignor’s doctoral dissertation “An Urban Community Development Model (May 1988)” at Fordham University. Through his many other academic endeavors, Msgr. Linder continues to lecture and consult internationally to community groups, bankers and community development aficionados.
New Community Corporation employees participate in a culture that is embodied by the principles of family. The visionary and caring leadership of Linder’s makes the organization one of community. Often times training graduates are employed at NCC and promotions from within are commonplace. NCC employs over 1,600 people, 94% of whom are minorities from the communities served by the organization.
Humble were the beginnings of New Community Corporation, when its novice yet well-intentioned, leadership endlessly sought to self-educate about the principles of running a successful business - the founder, Monsignor Linder included. Some of the coursework and Continuing Education Conferences Linder has lectured in include: University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business: "Fundamentals of Finance & Accounting for the Non-Financial Executive" January 1980; Institute for Professional and Executive Development: "The Nonprofit as Entrepreneurs;" "Syndicating Real Estate Washington, D.C.: February 1985; Rutgers University: "Fundamentals of Real Estate Syndication and Securities" New Brunswick, NJ: January 1983; National Real Estate Development Center: "Making the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Work" December, 1988, "Affordable Housing Legislation; RTC, Tax Credits, Federal Home and Loan Funding," Washington, D.C.: November 1989; The Ditchley Foundation: "Conference on Urban Regeneration" Ditchley Park, Enstone, Oxfordshire, England: January 1989.
Throughout his career, Monsignor continues to participate in the education arena. For example he was the Executive Lecturer for Marriott School of Management in Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah. He bravely participated in vital discussions that sought to solve the deep rooted societal issues faced by urban communities. He has participated in Planning Exchanges like: U.S.‑Japan Metropolitan Planning Exchange – a joint venture of the Regional Planning Association and Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research, Tokyo, Japan: July 1992; Roundtable on Big Cities and the New Politics of Child and Family Policy at Columbia University School of Social Work, New York City, 1996 and Vital Voices Conference on Women Sponsored by US Department of Commerce’s Address on: “Economic Development & Opportunity in a Time of Change” Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 31, 1998.
His international travels and experience deem him an authority in Community Development. He has served as adjunct professor at Columbia University and Rutgers University as well as on the board of directors for several charter schools and educational institutions. Monsignor has also served within the international arena as the lead consultant to Community Development groups in Ireland and Africa. Often, he plays the role of host to groups who visit and examine, first-hand, the New Community Corporation experience.
Modest about his momentous and infinite number of accomplishments, Monsignor Linder will not list the awards and recognitions received; for he is focused on NCC’s mission of “helping residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement.” Until this mission is fulfilled, he vows to never rest. When asked where does his motivation to accomplish this mission originates from, he humbly and paradoxically asks, “How can I be content when my fellow man is in need?”
The apple of this man’s eye, New Community Corporation has improved the lives of tens of thousands of inner city residents while transforming the Newark landscape into an attractive urban scene. It is a major factor in the continued stability of the area through its housing and business ventures.
Thanks to the continued efforts of Linder, New Community Corporation infinitely continues to empower low‑income individuals to "determine their own destiny” of self-sufficiency into the millennium and beyond.
Friday, May 16, 2008
CONDUCTORCISE Comes To Newark
UMDNJ and New Community Corporation Introduce Newark Seniors to David Dworkin’s CONDUCTORCISE®
NEWARK – Up to 100 seniors will learn how to lead a symphony orchestra, exercising their upper bodies while conducting 17th century compositions, on May 22 when the UMDNJ-Institute for Complementary & Alternative Medicine and New Community Corporation (NCC) host Maestro David Dworkin, creator of CONDUCTORCISE®.
Dworkin will lead the seniors, who live in New Community housing, through his acclaimed “symphonic aerobics” workout from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at NCC’s Extended Care Facility, 266 South Orange Avenue, in Newark.
Combining the musical, educational, and aerobic, CONDUCTORCISE® gets participants enthused about classical music and keeps them engaged, thinking, and in motion. “Those are key components necessary for healthy aging and staying fit,” said Dr. Adam Perlman, MPH, executive director of the UMDNJ-Institute for Complementary & Alternative Medicine (ICAM).
“We are very excited to join UMDNJ in hosting this unique event, especially during national fitness month,” said Monsignor William J. Linder, founder of NCC.
CONDUCTORCISE® is being offered as part of the grant-funded Enhancing Memory & Wellness Program, which Dr. Perlman and NCC care coordinators jointly developed to serve more than 1,600 senior residents in NCC’s eight facilities.
“There is research which shows that exercise, along with other healthy lifestyle factors, can help to maintain the brain and memory,” said Lynn Miller, JD. CHC, CYT, director of education of UMDNJ-ICAM and coordinator of the NCC wellness program.
Dworkin created CONDUCTORCISE® after making the transition from accomplished clarinetist and orchestra conductor to fitness guru. He has successfully brought his program to people of all ages, from pre-school children and teenagers to healthy seniors and those in assisted-living facilities, as well as stroke and Alzheimer’s patients.
This will be the first time Dworkin presents CONDUCTORCISE® in Newark.
Reporters interested in covering this presentation or interviewing Dr. Adam Perlman or Lynn Miller should contact UMDNJ’s Zenaida Mendez at (973) 972-5000 or Kara Lane at New Community 973-485-2246.
Visit http://www.conductorcise.com/ for more information on Dworkin and his program.
New Community Corporation is the largest community development corporation in the United States and Newark’s largest nonprofit in housing, which shelters 7,000 low-income residents.
UMDNJ is the nation’s largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,700 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and a school of public health on five campuses. Annually, there are more than two million patient visits at UMDNJ facilities and faculty practices at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a statewide mental health and addiction services network.
NEWARK – Up to 100 seniors will learn how to lead a symphony orchestra, exercising their upper bodies while conducting 17th century compositions, on May 22 when the UMDNJ-Institute for Complementary & Alternative Medicine and New Community Corporation (NCC) host Maestro David Dworkin, creator of CONDUCTORCISE®.
Dworkin will lead the seniors, who live in New Community housing, through his acclaimed “symphonic aerobics” workout from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at NCC’s Extended Care Facility, 266 South Orange Avenue, in Newark.
Combining the musical, educational, and aerobic, CONDUCTORCISE® gets participants enthused about classical music and keeps them engaged, thinking, and in motion. “Those are key components necessary for healthy aging and staying fit,” said Dr. Adam Perlman, MPH, executive director of the UMDNJ-Institute for Complementary & Alternative Medicine (ICAM).
“We are very excited to join UMDNJ in hosting this unique event, especially during national fitness month,” said Monsignor William J. Linder, founder of NCC.
CONDUCTORCISE® is being offered as part of the grant-funded Enhancing Memory & Wellness Program, which Dr. Perlman and NCC care coordinators jointly developed to serve more than 1,600 senior residents in NCC’s eight facilities.
“There is research which shows that exercise, along with other healthy lifestyle factors, can help to maintain the brain and memory,” said Lynn Miller, JD. CHC, CYT, director of education of UMDNJ-ICAM and coordinator of the NCC wellness program.
Dworkin created CONDUCTORCISE® after making the transition from accomplished clarinetist and orchestra conductor to fitness guru. He has successfully brought his program to people of all ages, from pre-school children and teenagers to healthy seniors and those in assisted-living facilities, as well as stroke and Alzheimer’s patients.
This will be the first time Dworkin presents CONDUCTORCISE® in Newark.
Reporters interested in covering this presentation or interviewing Dr. Adam Perlman or Lynn Miller should contact UMDNJ’s Zenaida Mendez at (973) 972-5000 or Kara Lane at New Community 973-485-2246.
Visit http://www.conductorcise.com/ for more information on Dworkin and his program.
New Community Corporation is the largest community development corporation in the United States and Newark’s largest nonprofit in housing, which shelters 7,000 low-income residents.
UMDNJ is the nation’s largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,700 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and a school of public health on five campuses. Annually, there are more than two million patient visits at UMDNJ facilities and faculty practices at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a statewide mental health and addiction services network.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
“A Woman For All Seasons”
After 39 years, New Community’s 1st Employee Retires and continues as a Volunteer
Cecilia Faulks, who recently retired from New Community Corporation, was so popular among her colleagues and friends that she had not one, but two retirement celebrations. Together, the two events were attended by hundreds of well wishers. Ms. Faulks was New Community’s first employee and retired after 39 years on the job. She had begun working for NCC founder Msgr. William J. Linder at Queen of Angels Church as the secretary of its school in 1969. She became the first paid employee of NCC in 1973.
After 39 years, New Community’s 1st Employee Retires and continues as a Volunteer
Cecilia Faulks, who recently retired from New Community Corporation, was so popular among her colleagues and friends that she had not one, but two retirement celebrations. Together, the two events were attended by hundreds of well wishers. Ms. Faulks was New Community’s first employee and retired after 39 years on the job. She had begun working for NCC founder Msgr. William J. Linder at Queen of Angels Church as the secretary of its school in 1969. She became the first paid employee of NCC in 1973.
New Community is the largest and most comprehensive community development corporation (CDC) in the US, employing more than 1300 people. It has an operating budget of $120,000,000 and owns real estate with a replacement value of over $500,000,000.
Mrs. Faulks has been an active member of Queen of Angels church in Newark for nearly 40 years. She has served as Pastoral Council Chair and in other positions and was awarded the Archdiocesan Jubilee Medal in 2000. Mrs. Faulks decided to retire so that she could spend more time with her family and devote more time to the ministry of which she is part. She has three children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren and is a Eucharistic Minister. She will spend some of her time in “retirement” visiting the sick and elderly and offering companionship.
“I feel like I made a difference,” Ms. Faulks said of her long career at New Community and of her work in the community. “I don’t think you can ask for anything better in life.”
“I feel like I made a difference,” Ms. Faulks said of her long career at New Community and of her work in the community. “I don’t think you can ask for anything better in life.”
More About New Community…..
New Community’s success rests on its comprehensive approach to community development. It is active in housing, health care, education, training, childcare and economic development. It runs for-profit businesses, a community newspaper and arts program and a credit union. It has provided training to community development professionals from around the country and the world, having hosted representatives from more than 20 countries in recent years. NCC fits into the bigger universe of 1.6 million American non-profits and 4,000 CDCs, which have a total annual revenue of $621.4 billion and employ 10.2 percent of the total labor force. The CDC movement, which like New Community, is about 40 year old, has been a major force in the redevelopment and rebuilding of inner city neighborhoods, responsible for more than 550,000 housing units, 247,000 jobs and the development of 71 million square feet of commercial space. The CDC movement has succeeded in developing low-income areas where government has failed.
For more information contact:
Kara Lane, Resource Development, 973-497-4410
kara.lane@newcommunity.org
New Community Corporation, 233 West Market Street, Newark, NJ 07103
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