“Support CNMI” expands access to social services
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It’s Support CNMI. Its mission is in its name. A coalition of public, private, and non-profit agencies came together to improve the network of social services.
Northern Marianas College president Dr. Galvin Deleon Guerrero said, "This website and this initiative is exactly that. It's helping us become better stewards of each other. Because, you know, after a typhoon, we're not out there, you know, rioting, looting stores. We're out there checking on our neighbors to see if 'are you doing okay? Hey, do you need water?'"
The new website, supportcnmi.com, was launched and will be maintained by the Northern Marianas College Cooperative Research Extension and Education Services.
Patricia Coleman, Interim Dean of NMC-CREES, said, "We've also banded together to see how we can seek additional funding. Whether it's leveraging local funding, which we know is rather scarce right now or whether it's working together to pull in more federal money so that we can really get it to the people who need it most."
14 organizations are currently featured on the site, ranging from healthcare to education.
Karidat director Lauri Ogumoro said, "So we're really proud of this. And it's something that we just hope that we can continue to expand on it with all the other services in the Commonwealth and we can just keep adding to it because this is a wonderful foundation."