Latimer's Yates Village Site (Our 2nd of 3 sites)
Yates Resident Ass'n, Inc.; SMHA
and
Latimer Education's
Helping Yourself
Public Access
Community Information
and
Technical Computing Center
The History of Our Project
Fall '91: Yates Resident Ass'n meeting: Communications & Resident's Newsletter on the Agenda...
VISTA with VISION: Pam Kearsing
County Resources from HSPC: Bobbie Bowden & Phil Lohre
In the grand Community Settlement House Traditions: Carver's Latimer Educational Services
Two Leadership teams from Yates Resident Association stewarding across political boundaries
Presbyterian Church, USA takes an interest in us by fielding our Plan...
Rev Bob Smith & local Self- development of People Committee passes Plan to their National Committee
Ms Jean Swope arrives and recommends more $$$
Steering Committee sets up Lab & meets first: 4 Aug 93
Objectives met, lab secured lock, stock & barrel... June 94.Go To TOP
Goals of Our Project
Project Objectives (meet these & the Lab was Ours w/i one year...)
Latimer to train two residents in use and operation of Lab
Computerize office environment of YRA
Steering Committee train at least four more residents
Train 24 youths per year in Lab operation via Latimer Education
Set-up & publish resident Newsletter
Project Expectations...
Train twelve residents in operation of Lab
Provide regular hours for accessing NYS Labor Dept Job Service on-line listing w/i two months
Public Relations projects (fliers, notices, etc.) for JAM programs & directors
Employ resident in project w/i one month via Latimer staffing
Refund grant for 1994+
Incorporate YRA by June 1996Go To TOP
Our Project's Methods
Steering Committee of Helping Yourself composed of Yates Residents & Latimer Director
Steering Committee trains itself first
Integrity of organizations and machinery is utmost and first before all other needs...
Steering Committee decides on projects requested from outside if training is not impacted
Steering Committee members all train in operation of Office Environment and each receives specialization in particular software environments
Project Goals sacrosanct; for first year all events must conform to training sequence as designed by Latimer Director and specified in contractGo To TOP
Our Project's Shared Equipment & Resources
Yates Resident Ass'n
DOS 5.0
QEMM 386
EtherNet
Intel fax/modem:
MS-Windows for Workgroups
Aldous Pagemaker 4.0w
MS-Works/win
(1) Silicon Valley Pylon 1 i486dx2-66
(2) Silicon Valley Pylon 2 i486sx-33
Okidata OL400Go To TOP
Furniture
Supplies
HUD TOP grant in-kind services
Latimer Education
Multi-media
(1) i486dx4-100
(3) Pentium75
all w/4x speed CD-ROM & Sound
Toshiba Satellite T2105CS Laptop
Lotus SmartSuite v 4.0
Laplink (for SysOps)
MicroSoft
DOS 6.22/WFWG
Excel
Word Winds
Works for Mac
2-Macintosh 6.0/7.0
Hypercard 2.0
Pagemaker 3.1.1
$20,000+ worth of ednl/bus software
Full INTERNET & WEB services
1995 and Beyond...
Residents awarded $96,000 in TOP Grant providing much needed support
professionalizes YRA facility by expanding facilities & organizational capacity
YRA is currently incorporated
professional facilities manager hired to provide more lab service (expanded by more than 400%)
professional organizational capacity consultant hired to organize electronic office and train officers to run it (addresses issue of transience)
professional system operator hired to maintain software & hardware systems on-site and to advise Board of Directors on technical issues
Latimer Ed'n Program a Successful Partner
Latimer expands to 2nd HUD site; provides links between Resident Organizations
Latimer to provide focal support in new HUD Family Centers' Public Access Computer Labs
Lotus Grant for $10,000 in Software
New facility at Hamilton Hill (Sec 8) site built by UPS Found'n featuring Public Access LabsGo To TOP
Last Update: 11/17/96
Web Author: Richard A. Parkany
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