Services provided by CCBA

Since the establishment in 1883, CCBA has been providing service to the Chinese-American residents living in the Greater New York Area.  In the early year, most of the residents lived in the Chinatown area.  The early Chinese immigrant residents had poor English skills and their traditional Chinese living style, many issues and problems are solved inside Chinatown in its own way.

CCBA acted as the City Hall of Chinatown at that time, and that is why the President of CCBA was always referred as the unofficial "Mayor of Chinatown".  CCBA had the persuasiveness to judge the right and wrong in daily lives and businesses.

Until today, CCBA continues to provide services mainly in educational area.  Two of its component, the New York Chinese School and the Chinatown Daycare Center provides educational services to children, focusing on teaching the Chinese language and culture.  New York Chinese School is still the largest Chinese School system in the Eastern USA.

Adult English Classes - CCBA Adult English Language Division provides low cost English lessons to new immigrants and adult over 18 years old.

Naturalization and Voters Registration - Working the DYCD and the Chinese Voters Federation, CCBA provides assistant to alien residents to apply for the U.S. Citizenship.  Volunteers also assist citizens to fill out the voter registration form.

Health Insurance - Two health insurance companies, NewYork-Presbyterian Community Health Plan and Careplus, have representatives stations in CCBA to applies Medicaid and free or low cost health insurance to low income families.

Free Tax Services - Volunteers from Baruch College provides free tax-return service for our residents from February to mid-April.