On March 25, 2022, CIANA hosted a Test and Trace Day of Action in Astoria, Queens. Beginning late Friday morning and continuing all afternoon, hundreds of clients and community members, immigrants and non-immigrants, came to the Key Food on Newtown Avenue, down the street from CIANA’s office, to collect at-home COVID testing kits, masks, PPE, and information about COVID vaccines and CIANA’s services for immigrants. Since August 2020, CIANA has been part of the NYC Test and Tr

Happy AmeriCorps Week! From March 13 through 19, we celebrate the millions of Americans around the country dedicated to serving underprivileged communities through AmeriCorps. Over the past four years, CIANA has hosted four AmeriCorps VISTAs in partnership with the New York Immigration Coalition. Each of them has contributed greatly to CIANA’s capacity building efforts to better serve immigrant communities, through volunteer coordination, data management, digital communicatio