Project snapshot
CCI presents Defiendete!: Family Preparedness Plan — two forum-theatre performances and virtual family literacy workshops developed with Make the Road NY. The project trains youth to create scripts, educational materials, and civic events integrating Act4Change forum-theatre and MRNY Know Your Rights modules, enabling families (regardless of immigration status) to develop actionable Family Preparedness Plans, rehearse rights-assertion, and organize vital documents. By reducing fear, enhancing legal knowledge, and spreading peer-to-peer outreach, the initiative strengthens community resilience, emergency readiness, and protective capacity among vulnerable immigrant families.
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