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Welcome to the Neighborhood!

"Through Neighborhood Networks centers, entire communities are getting involved in a grassroots effort to help people find jobs and real opportunity -- making it possible for them to become self-sufficient and take charge of their lives."
– HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo

HUD Neighborhood Networks

• Supports community residents who want to take a step up on the economic ladder by offering them resources such as computer training and access to job placement, education, child care, health care and other essential services.
• Engages businesses, community groups, faith-based organizations and other local partners in an exciting initiative to strengthen neighborhoods.
• Helps affordable housing owners to operate their properties successfully in the new and evolving welfare environment.

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Welcome to the neighborhood

Building the Foundation of Our New Neighborhood

In today's economy, if you're not wired, you're not going very far.

Neighborhood Networks is a community-based initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1995. The initiative helps establish resource and computerized learning centers in privately owned HUD- assisted and/or -insured housing developments with lower income residents.

At Neighborhood Networks centers, residents improve their job readiness, build on their education, gain better access to local community services – and even start their own businesses. By offering access to advanced technology and training, centers enable residents to boost their earning power and become financially self-sufficient.

HUD provides limited assistance to help launch the centers. But each center is sustained financially by contributions from local partners in the community – businesses, nonprofits, religious groups, foundations, community colleges, civic organizations, health clinics, city and state governments – and people just like you.

No two Neighborhood Networks centers are exactly alike. Nearly all sponsor job training and educational activities, and many sponsor programs for children, teens and seniors. Quite a few centers have created their own websites!

Neighborhood Networks

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Neighborhood Networks - Revitalizing Our Community

Neighborhood Networks residents are building connections to local employers, schools and service providers, to improve their lives and their communities.

Property owners are finding that the centers help them attract and keep residents, lower vacancy rates and, in some cases, substantially reduce security and maintenance costs at their complexes.

Business partners are gaining access to a newly trained and committed workforce – and potential new customers. Public and nonprofit service providers are working with centers to better reach the people they intend to serve.

Hundreds of Neighborhood Networks centers are operating across the country. If you'd like to be part of this successful initiative tostrengthen communities, call 1-888-312-2743, or visit our website at www.NeighborhoodNetworks.org. Help a Neighborhood Networks center today!

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What A Successful Neighborhood!

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In Los Angeles, the Pico Union Neighborhood Networks Center offers job training and educational courses via distance learning to more than 1,000 residents in five housing communities. Through the center's telecommunication learning system, residents can see and hear their instructors or ask questions.

In Madison, WI, the Northport and Packer Community Learning Centers have helped dozens of people find employment. Located in adjacent housing communities, the centers prepare participants for all aspects of the workplace, by offering computer skills training, plus courses in office culture, communication and career advancement. K-12 programs also help students improve academic performance.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
9300 Lee Highway
Fairfax, Virginia 22031
www.NeighborhoodNetworks.org ,br>888-312-2743

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