Who we Are

The goal of our organization is to eradicate the educational and healthcare disparities for foster and underserved youth and their families. Currently, ECOC’s main focus is Cinematique, anannual community event hosted to support foster families. Our goal continues to be scale-up the Cinematique event and host a projected 2,000 attendees who will receive access to the event’s resource providers. ECOC seeks to provide these families with invaluable community education and knowledge and access to invaluable resources, while simultaneously making the event interactive, fun, and memorable for the entire family.

ECOC also has initiatives in partnership with other nonprofits. Under the fiscal sponsorship of the Essex Community Outreach Corporation (ECOC), and in collaboration with the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, Urban Games has evolved into a free community health and play event filled with education and fun for the entire family.  Having served as a sponsor and fiscal sponsor for Urban Games since 2015, ECOC helped launch Urban Games as a separate, independent 501(c)(3) organization to enable its growth and service to other marginalized youth and underserved communities across the nation.