Claymont Community Center is collaborating with numerous groups to help businesses, families, kids, and immigrant adults.
CCC offers a one-stop-shop for social, educational, and recreational services, and they are in the midst of preparing four new activities to further benefit the community.
The first is a partnership with Delaware Financial Literacy Institute, the Money School and Capital One to create the Center for Business Growth. The goal is to provide four startup and emerging small businesses with the critical entrepreneurship and financial skills necessary for business success.
These groups will receive instructional classes and workshops, have access to affordable, professional office space with furniture and equipment, internet and phone service, a reception area, mail service, meeting rooms, and access to business resources.
The second collaboration is with Christiana Health Care System, who has created a program called Health Ambassadors. This program provides community liaisons to pregnant women, along with moms and dads of young children, to connect them with resources in the community to help raise a healthy family.
The program promotes good health before pregnancy and provides information to help prevent premature births, a leading cause of death in newborn babies.
Another initiative is the Center’s ESOL program for immigrant adults. ESOL stands for English for Speakers of Other Languages, The goal is to provide day and evening instructional classes for individuals wishing to learn to speak, read, and write English. Four levels of instructional classes are available.
Typically, each course level consists of 32 (one hour) sessions, twice a week for 16 weeks. The cost is $75 per course and includes a take home study guide and CD. Scholarship assistance is available. One group working with us on this project is the Indo-American Association of Delaware.
Finally, the fourth new initiative is summer camps for school-age children, which will be facilitated by New Castle County. A variety of full or half-day recreation and sport camps will be conducted or the Center’s fields throughout the summer.
Law school dean to be honored
Best Buddies Delaware and the BlueGold All-Star Basketball Games will recognize Dean Linda Ammons of Widener Law School with its Community Leadership Award at the BlueGold All-Star Basketball Games on Saturday, March 16 at 3 p.m. at the Bob Carpenter Center. The annual award recognizes a Delawarean’s contribution to the community.
Ammons is the first woman and the first African American to lead Widener University School of Law, and is the senior African American female dean in the nation. Ammons came to Widener in 2006 from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, where she was associate dean and professor of law.
Ammons has served on the faculty of the National Judicial College since 1993. In 2010, she was named to the Legal Education Development Committee of the American Bar Association, and she recently completed three years’ service as Chair of the Curriculum Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar. Ammons served a three-year term on the Government Relations Committee of the Association of American Law Schools and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Women Deans’ Databank and the Minority Deans’ Databank.
In January 2010, Ammons was appointed by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell to be the special investigator in the case of pediatrician Earl Bradley. Her work resulted in a package of nine legislative reforms that were passed unanimously by the General Assembly.
