CAAAV and NMCIR-Bronx Project have partnered to provide FREE

Immigration Consultation
US Citizenship Application
Low-cost Adjustment of Status
Low-cost Family-based Petitions

Where: CAAAV  Office, 2473 Valentine Ave.
(Fordham Rd. at 188th St.), Bronx, NY 10458
(Available by the BX 12 bus)
When:    Last Wednesday of every Month
(July: Wed 28th, August: Wed 26th, Sep Wed 30th)
Time:  10 am- 2pm
Email: ylp@caaav.org
Phone: (718) 220-7391 ext.16,

For Vietnamese: Minh-Hà, For Khmer: Chhaya

Please note that if you are at least 50 years old and have lived in the US as a legal permanent resident for 20 years or if you are at least 55 years old and have lived in the US as a legal permanent resident for 15 years you are eligible to take the Citizenship Exam in your native language and the exam is oral – not written

CAAAV kết hợp NMCIR-Bronx Project
cung cấp dịch vụ
FREE- miễn phí
về
Tư vấn Luật Di trú
Hồ sơ xin Nhập Tịch
Hồ sơ xin Thẻ Xanh (lệ phí thấp)
Hồ sơ xin Bảo Lãnh Thân Nhân (lệ phí thấp)
Địa điểm:    Văn phòng CAAAV
2473 Valentine Ave.
(Fordham Rd. và 188th St.), bus Bx12
Bronx, NY 10458
Thời gian:    Thứ Tư cuối cùng mỗi tháng
(Tháng 7: ngày 29, Tháng 8: ngày 26, Tháng 9: ngày 30)
10:00 sáng – 2:00 chiều
Email: ylp@caaav.org
Phone: (718) 220-7391 ext.16
Tiếng Việt: Minh-Hà  Tiếng Khmer: Chhaya

posted by Matt Anderson, MD

Our earlier post had suggested the NYU College of Dentistry Clinic and similar clinics at other dental schools. We also mentioned New York City Department of Health dental clinics for people up to age 21. (Our patient was 23).

The nagging memory of a 2006 social medicine rounds (12/19/2006) led us to the Mayor’s Office of Citywide Health Insurance Access, a part of the city government which tries to make health insurance available to as many New Yorkers as possible.   Their website has an extensive listing of Health Resources for the Uninsured.  This page provides links to low cost dental services, mainly in hospitals.  The site also has links to  community health centers, as well as information on medications, mental health resources, and vision services.

If you have no insurance, this is a useful site to visit.  It provides a screening tool (it shows up as a sidebar on each page) to help you determine if you might be eligible for any public or private insurance plans.

Finally, – in terms of free non-dental services – this week we learned the NYC DOH offers free condoms and lubricants to organizations that will distribute them for free. Click on this link.

Brush your teeth and floss after each meal, stay away from sweetened drinks and have fun (safely).

Posted by Matt Anderson, MD

The theme for this year’s DGH General Assembly will be “Advancing the Right to Health: Challenges, Models, Means and Mechanisms.” Among the speakers is Arjun Makhijani, PhD, author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy. Dr. Makhijani has written widely about the dangers of nuclear weapons, depleted uranium, and nuclear power.

DGH has always had an activist and community bend. The day the conference opens (7/18) visits are planned to some of Iowa City’s local projects including the Proteus project which provides healthcare to farmworkers and immigrants; The Free Clinic, one of the oldest in the country, serving new Iowa communities without access to health care; and Scattergood School Organic Farm, part of the local food movement.

DGH promotes a vision of Liberation Medicine: “The conscious, conscientious use of health to promote human dignity and social justice.”

DGH maintains a very comprehensive and useful website where you can go for more information about the organization.

[Posting updated 6/15/08]