The Northern Manhattan CARE Collaborative
Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, WE ACT’s Northern Manhattan Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) Collaborative is a broad-based partnership of stakeholders in Northern Manhattan working to reduce risk from toxic exposures in this community, specifically with relation to solid waste, and pests and pesticides.
As with many low-income urban communities of color, Northern Manhattan is plagued by severe environmental health hazards that compromise the ability of community residents to live long and healthy lives. Initiated in 2008 as a CARE Level I initiative, the project is now working as a CARE Level II initiative to combat this reality through a broad-based group of Northern Manhattan community stakeholders evolving from knowledge to action by understanding toxic risks and environmental pollutant impacts in this community, and addressing them. For more information, please contact Ogonnaya Dotson-Newman, Senior Environmental Heath Coordinator: Community-Based Participatory Research, at (212) 961-1000 Ext. 310 or via email at OGONNAYA@weact.org.