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Learn about what you can expect when you get the COVID-19 vaccine. After getting the COVID-19 vaccine, you may have short-term side effects like arm soreness, headaches, body aches, chills or fever. Learn more from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

The new #GrowWithGoogle Career Readiness for Reentry program will aim to train 10,000 previously incarcerated job seekers with digital skills to help them re-en...ter the workforce alongside Center for Employment Opportunities - CEO, Defy Ventures, The Fortune Society, The Last Mile, and The Ladies of Hope Ministries. Learn more goo.gle/3noaGZE #ReentryMatters See more

Join us TOMORROW May 4th at 1 PM for the Fair Chance for Housing Power Hour! We will be tweeting, calling, and emailing our community council members to take action together to pass Intro 2047. Register today: bit.ly/FairChancePowerHour

The #GrowwithGoogle Career Readiness for Reentry program is being run by one of Fortune’s highly skilled Vocational Instructors, Bryan, who shaped the Grow with Google program for our clients. #reentrymatters Read more on our blog: https://fortunesociety.org/grow-with-google-crafting-the-c/

Proud to partner with Google on the #GrowWithGoogle Career Readiness for Reentry program. Together with other nonprofits, we’ll provide digital skills training to help 10K people impacted by incarceration prepare for workforce reentry. #ReentryMatters https://goo.gle/3noaGZE

We claim our criminal justice system's goal is rehabilitation, yet we don't support incarcerated individuals as they transition out of prisons. Thank you to The Fortune Society for helping Hilton Webb and thousands others like him each year. Via CBS New York.

INCARCERATED LIVES MATTER. Yesterday, we voiced this loud and clear with New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement and directly impacted advocates at Edgecombe and Danbury correctional facilities. Leaders must immediately vaccinate ALL incarcerated people, stop using solitary confinement as quarantine, grant more early releases, and support change including #ElderParole, #HALTSolitary and #LessIsMoreNY.... Watch the full recording of the rally: https://bit.ly/3tL1SQf

ICYMI: Yesterday, advocates and directly impacted people rallied virtually and in-person at Edgecombe Correctional Facility and Danbury Correctional Institution to demand protections for incarcerated people. Watch a full recording: https://bit.ly/3cV17OA #IncarceratedLivesMatter

HAPPENING NOW: Join our virtual rally to demand protections for incarcerated people during COVID-19. Join: https://bit.ly/rally-protect-incarcerated-people

COVID-19 is turning prison sentences into death sentences, yet most people inside don’t have priority access to the vaccine or adequate PPE. FEB. 8th: rally in-person or virtually to demand change with Fortune, New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement, Release Aging People in Prison - RAPP, Center for Community Alternatives, Freedom Agenda, Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY), and others: http://bit.ly/3oiWaB6

There are vaccination sites in all five boroughs for New Yorkers who are currently eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Find out if you are eligible and schedule an appointment: nyc.gov/vaccinefinder