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Government and Community Affairs, Department of

• Ross Frommer,
  Deputy Vice President for Government and Community Affairs
  
  Sandra Harris,
  Director of Community Affairs
  
  College of Physicians and Surgeons
  630 West 168th Street
  PH 15, East 1525
  New York, NY 10032
  
  Tel: 212-305-8060
  Fax: 212-928-5799
  
  Hours: Monday through Friday:
  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  
  The Department of Government and Community Affairs provides comprehensive advisory and technical assistance for the development of institutional community partnerships including: program development, community relations, grant writing, strategic marketing planning, development and implementation for healthcare and social marketing campaigns, targeted media campaigns for community outreach programs, as well as special events management for the administrative offices and schools of Columbia University, Health Sciences Division. The department in collaboration with New York-Presbyterian Hospital also offers quarterly technical assistance workshops to community-based organizations. The workshops focus on topics such as: marketing, grant writing, fund raising, board development, and program evaluation.



• Audubon School/Columbia Partners As Leaders (PAL)
  Mentoring Program
  
  Clara N. Leon,
  Assistant Director
  
  College of Physicians and Surgeons
  630 West 168th Street
  PH 15, East 1525
  New York, NY 10032
  
  Tel: 212-305-9950
  Fax: 212-928-5799
  
  Hours: Friday: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  
  The Audubon School/Columbia (PAL) Program provides mentors from Columbia University’s Health Sciences schools to 4th and 5th graders at P.S. 128. Mentors provide tutorial services and participate in recreational activities with elementary school youngsters.



• Ivy League: Uptown W.I.N.S. (Women in Neighborhood Sports)
  
  Madeline Holder,
  Executive Director
  
  542 West 159th Street,
  Suite 1B
  New York, NY 10032
  
  Tel: 212-543-2115
  Fax: 212-543-2131
  
  Hours: Monday through Friday:
  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  
  Services: The Ivy League: Uptown W.I.N.S. (Women in Neighborhood Sports) is a recreational/educational program for girls and young women ages 6 to 21. Attracting girls through recreational programs that include basketball, volleyball and softball, the League also provides educational programs such as tutoring, mentoring, leadership training, computer training and SAT preparation.As a requirement of participation in the program, girls must maintain a "B" average in school. Those girls who are unable to maintain a "B" average must participate in mandatory tutoring; if they do not, they cannot participate in any of the League’s recreational programs. The program seeks to keep girls and young women off the streets; offer them opportunities to grow as individuals, emotionally, physically, psychologically, and educationally; and provide role models to guide them in their future endeavors.



• Summer Youth Employment Program
  
  Clara N. Leon,
  Assistant Director
  
  College of Physicians and Surgeons
  630 West 168th Street
  PH 15, East 1525
  New York, NY 10032
  
  Tel: 212-305-9950
  Fax: 212-928-5799
  
  Hours: (July through August)
  Monday through Friday:
  10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  
  The Columbia University Summer Youth Employment Program is an eight-week program in collaboration with Children's Arts and Sciences Workshop and the Department of Employment. One hundred youth from the Washington Heights/ Inwood community are placed at various departments throughout the University. The program provides structured, well supervised work activities that encourage individual initiative and responsibility. Activities are well structured yet leave enough room for the participant to learn, grow and acquire the kinds of skills, habits and attitudes that will increase their knowledge of the working world.