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Center for Community Alternatives
About


Building a world where everyone has what they need to thrive.


The Center for Community Alternatives (CCA), founded in 1981, is a leader in community-based alternatives to incarceration and policy advocacy to reduce reliance on incarceration. We provide direct services to communities in New York City, Syracuse, and Rochester, engaging approximately 3,500 youth and adults annually who would otherwise be incarcerated.


Services include gender-based substance treatment and recovery communities, sentence mitigation, court advocacy, workforce readiness, civic restoration services, emergency/transitional housing, student advocacy, violence prevention, and youth mentoring as well as afterschool programming and career exploration for justice-involved youth. The majority of our participants are Black or Latino/a and come from poor or low-income communities.

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Phone Number
(315) 422-5638
Fax
(315) 471-4924
Languages
English, Spanish
ADA Accessible
Yes
Address
115 E Jefferson St, Suite 300
13202
City
Syracuse
Founded
1981
Citizens in Action – Central New York Chapter
About

Located In Utica, New York, our community-based and multicultural organization is committed to living wage jobs, affordable health care and education, educational opportunities, and improvement in living conditions for low and moderate income people. Founded in 1997, we advocate for the interests of children, families, seniors, and disabled in Central New York.

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Phone Number
(315) 570-3370
Address
500 Plant St,
13502
City
Utica
Founded
1997
Cooperative Federal Credit Union
About

Founded in 1982 by activists seeking an alternative to fat-cat corporate bankers, we are a non-profit, financial service cooperative dedicated to fairness, equality, and social & economic justice.

Phone Number
(315) 471-1116
Fax
(315) 476-0567
Languages
English, Spanish
Address
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13210
City
Syracuse
Founded
1982
Dunbar Association (Dunbar Center)
About

The core mission of the institution of the Dunbar Association Inc. is to enhance the quality of life, break the cycle of poverty, and develop racial equity in our community by strengthening youth and their families through a comprehensive delivery of services that promote excellence through advocacy and education.

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Phone Number
(315) 760-3155
Address
1453 S State St
13205
City
Syracuse
Founded
1918
Eastern Farmworkers
Organization
About

Eastern Farmworkers is a volunteer-run organization involved with low-income working families. We work with farmers and their workers, and former manufacturing workers who have had to assume temporary jobs after plants like Carrier relocated. We work to bridge the gap between rural and urban communities, and maintain healthy relationships between employers and employees who are often affected by the same policies. We allocate benefits such as job and housing referrals, food and clothing distribution, and volunteer dental, legal, and medical services.

Phone Number
(315) 478-1992
Languages
English, Spanish
Address
525 N Salina St
13208
City
Syracuse
Founded
1972
Hiscock Legal Aid Society
About

The Hiscock Legal Aid Society promotes the fundamental right of every person to equal justice under the law by providing high quality legal assistance to individuals and families in need in Onondaga County and the surrounding region.

Phone Number
(315) 422-8191
Address
351 S Warren St
13202
City
Syracuse
Founded
1949
In My Father’s Kitchen
About

In My Father’s Kitchen, Inc. (IMFK) is a not-for-profit corporation founded by John and Leigh-Ann Tumino. IMFK is a faith-based organization offering non-denominational and non-discriminatory assistance to homeless people through direct street outreach.

Phone Number
(315) 308-1561
Address
PO Box 11328
13218
City
Syracuse
Founded
2011
NYCLU, Central New York Chapter Regional Office
About

We are the Central New York office of the New York Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to protect the civil rights and civil liberties of all New Yorkers. Our regional office covers seven counties.

The New York Civil Liberties Union, the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, promotes and defends the fundamental principles and values embodied in the Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution and New York State Constitution, including freedom of speech and religion, and the right to privacy, equality, and due process of law. We carry out our mission through public education, advocacy and litigation.

Phone Number
(315) 471-2821
ADA Accessible
Yes
Address
499 S. Warren St., Suite 430
13203
City
Syracuse
Founded
1963
Planned Parenthood of Central and Western NY
About

Protects and provides health care and education that empowers individuals and families. Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York has 10 health centers and one mobile unit. Delivers affordable, nonjudgmental, high quality health care to thousands of people each year. Staff specialize in reproductive and sexual health care.

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Phone Number
(315) 475-5540
Fax
315-475-0685
Languages
English, Spanish
Address
1120 East Genesee St.
13210
City
Syracuse
Founded
1916
Refugee Resettlement Services
About

Offers resettlement services and support for those forced to leave their countries due to unsafe conditions. Provides assistance with applying for jobs and registering for English language classes, locating translators, finding housing, and securing medical care.

 

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Phone Number
(315) 474-7428
Address
527 North Salina St
13208
City
Syracuse
Samaritan Center
Organization
About

The Samaritan Center is a 501c3, interfaith effort of community members committed to serving the hungry and those in need in order to promote their welfare dignity and self sufficiency.

Phone Number
(315) 472-0650
Address
215 N. State Street
13203
City
Syracuse
Founded
1981
Syracuse Community Connections
About

Established in 1974, Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility, Inc., now d.b.a. Syracuse Community Connections. (SCC) is the managing entity of the City-owned Southwest Community Center (SWCC) located at 401 South Avenue. SWCC, in the tradition of settlement houses also known as community or neighborhood centers, provides services and activities designed to identify and reinforce the strengths of individuals, families and communities. SCC provides a refuge for community residents with a variety of services to meet a number of social, health, economic and nutritional needs. 

Phone Number
(315) 474-6823
Fax
(315) 479-8023
Address
401-425 South Ave
13204
City
Syracuse
Founded
1974
Syracuse Cultural Workers
About

SCW is a progressive publisher committed to peace, sustainability, social justice, feminism and multiculturalism. We create and publish visual materials, like calendars, posters, T-shirts, cards and postcards, and distribute them across North America.

Phone Number
(800) 949-5139
Fax
(800) 396-1449
Address
400 Lodi St
13203
City
Syracuse
Founded
1982
Syracuse Peace Council
About

The Syracuse Peace Council (SPC), founded in 1936, is an antiwar/social justice organization. We are community-based, autonomous and funded by the contributions of our supporters. SPC educates, agitates and organizes for a world where war, violence and exploitation in any form will no longer exist. We challenge the existing unjust power relationships among nations, among people and between ourselves and the environment.

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Phone Number
(315) 472-5478
Languages
English, Spanish
ADA Accessible
Yes
Address
2013 E. Genesee St
13210
City
Syracuse
Founded
1936
Urban Jobs Task Force
About

An organization made up of community groups; faith based organizations and concerned citizen, dedicated to creating a local economy that provides good jobs and job training for local communities of color, low income families and more opportunities for local woman and minority-owned enterprises. 

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