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Time Warner Cable Provides Internet, Tech for OCCHA Center
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Time Warner Cable and the League of United Latin American Citizens are partnering to offer free, high-speed Internet access, computers, and other equipment for a new technology center on Shirley Road near Interstate 680 and Pemberton Park.
The Empower Hispanic America Technology Center will be housed at the Organización Cívica y Cultural Hispana Americana building. The center is one of seven LULAC centers Time Warner Cable fully funds around the country while providing free, high-speed broadband access to eight others, and one of one of four new centers being set up this year by Time Warner Cable and LULAC. Representatives from the OCCHA board of directors, Time Warner Cable and LULAC will participate in an invitation-only dedication and open house event today.
“Time Warner Cable is proud of this partnership to reach into the communities we serve and empower them with all that broadband has to offer,” said Don Kosec, Time Warner Cable’s vice president of business class services.
"The new computer equipment and the complimentary high-speed broadband access will allow us to provide clients with a state-of-the-art computer center and internet service,” said Susan Nieves, OCCHA executive director. “We are most grateful for the technology center that will help us provide Hispanics and others in our multi-cultural community with the best in computer technology for many years to come."
The centers provide job training and search assistance, English language courses, citizenship classes, computer training and certifications, safe learning environments for students during after-school hours, and college application and financial aid seminars. The initiative increases access to technology, which is not accessible to many low-income Hispanic families. The centers are part of LULAC National Educational Services Centers Inc. and partner with non-profit organizations that serve low-income Hispanic communities.
“The technology center will provide services like educational programming, computer technology training, and job placement, improving dropout and unemployment rates which are so high in the community,” said Margaret Moran LULAC national president. “We know that the partnership with Time Warner Cable will provide critical access to broadband and technology, mitigating the digital divide across the country.”
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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