The Child Center of NY, founded in 1953 as a children's counseling center in Queens, has become a powerful community presence in the city because of our work in the most underserved areas of the city.  

We’ve established Cash+Community Works (C+C) cohorts in Woodside, a program with a peer-driven change model centered on removing inequitable structural barriers and challenging top- down approaches to supporting low-income families on the path to self-sufficiency.  

Queens is one of the most ethnically diverse urban areas in the world, and out of the estimated 3.1 million immigrants in the five boroughs of NYC, an estimated 1.1 million live in Queens. Woodside is a vibrant community in the western portion of Queens with large Latinx (29%) and Asian (37%) immigrant populations. Woodside faces a poverty rate of 9.2%. Over 50% of the population is rent burdened, with 22.2% being severely rent burdened (over 50% of household income spent on rent).