The District of Columbia Neighborhood Investment Fund Awards Wheeler Creek Community Development Corporation $41,327 to Provide Skills Training and Job Placement Assistance to Target Area Residents in the Area of Allied Helath Professions

Washington, DC - Wheeler Creek Community Development Corporation (WCCDC) announced today that the Government of the District of Columbia Neighborhood Investment Fund is providing a partial funding in the amount of $41,327 in support of the WCCDC’s skills training and placement assistance program in the area of Allied Health Professions.

The program has the potential to train 45 eligible residents from the targeted communities in the areas of pharmacy technician, dialysis technician, and phlebotomy technician. The training program provided in collaboration with Washington Institute, Inc includes clinical externship as well as job placement assistance. The training is conducted from the Wheeler Creek Community Center with the aim of transforming the lives of unemployed and underemployed residents linking them in a careed path that is high-demand and high growth.

Wheeler Creek Community Development Corporation (WCCDC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1997 whose mission is to serve those with the greatest needs for services addressing the distressed economic, social, and deplorable housing conditions.

WCCDC is one of the premier organization serving low-income residents and distressed communities primarily in southeast Washington, DC and throughout the District of Columbia. Having successfully co-developed an award-winning 314 units of mixed-income community of Wheeler Creek Estates along with comprehensive human development and economic self-sufficiency, WCCDC has developed the niche for sustainable community revitalization.

Building on its initial success, WCCDC is currently the administers and provider of the Community Supportive Services Program (CSSP) for Department of Housing Authority (DCHA) serving over 1,200 residents affected by HOPE VI developments in Washington, DC.

WCCDC shares the vision of the District of Columbia Government Neighborhood Investment Fund and is grateful for the generous support extended to it.